events from 1900

By Campeador19

  • Galveston hurricane

    Galveston hurricane leaves an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 dead (Sept. 8).According to the census, the nation's population numbers nearly 76 million.

  • cKinley's second inauguration

    McKinley's second inauguration (March 4). He is shot (Sept. 6) by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, N.Y., and later dies from his wounds(Sept. 14). He is succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.

  • U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone

    U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone
    U.S. acquires Panama Canal Zone (treaty signed Nov. 17). Wright brothers make 1903 the first controlled, sustained flight in heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk,
    N.C. (Dec. 17).

  • San Francisco earthquake

    San Francisco earthquake leaves 500 dead or missing and destroys about 4 sq mi of the city (April 18).

  • William Howard Taft is inaugurated

    William Howard Taft is inaugurated
    William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president (March 4). Mrs. Taft has 80 Japanese cherry trees planted along the banks of the Potomac River.

  • League of Nations meets for the first time

    League of Nations meets for the first time; U.S. is not represented (Jan. 13). Eighteenth Amendment to the
    Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor (Jan. 16). It is later repealed
    1919 by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote (Aug. 18). President Wilson suffers a stroke (Sept. 26).

  • Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated

    Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president (March 4). Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution is 1913 ratified, providing for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote rather than by the state
    legislatures (April 8).

  • World War I: U.S. enters World War I,

    World War I: U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany (April 6, 1917) and Austria-Hungary (Dec. 7,
    1918 1917) three years after conflict began in 1914. Armistice ending World War I is signed (Nov. 11, 1918

  • U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies

    U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies
    U.S. agrees to purchase Danish West Indies (Virgin Islands) for $25 million (treaty
    1916 signed Aug. 14). Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the U.S. House
    of Representatives (Nov. 7).

  • Wilson's second inauguration

    Wilson's second inauguration (March 5). First regular airmail service begins, with one round trip a day between Washington, DC, and New York (May 15).