1907

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Events

= January =

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= February =

  • February 7 – The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
  • February 11 – The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
  • February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
  • February 16SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearings and seals), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.{{Cite web|title=SKF|url=https://www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline|access-date=2022-01-30|website=www.skf.com|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130205529/https://www.skf.com/us/organisation/about-skf/history-timeline|url-status=live}}
  • February 21 – The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost.
  • February 24 – The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.

=March=

  • March
  • The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost.
  • The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.
  • The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China; it is "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book".{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html |title=Sacred Texts: Diamond Sutra |publisher=British Library |date=2003-11-30 |access-date=2012-06-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110093610/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html |archive-date=November 10, 2013 }}
  • Pablo Picasso completes his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
  • March 5 – At the opening of the new State Duma in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 40,000 demonstrators are dispersed by Russian troops.
  • March 11 – The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.
  • March 1516Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected.
  • March 22 – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.
  • March 25 – The first university sports federation in Europe is established in Hungary, with the participation or support of the associations of ten universities and colleges.{{Cite web|url=https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old|title=Magyar Posta Zrt. - 404-es hiba, az oldal nem található!|website=www.posta.hu|access-date=July 26, 2016|archive-date=September 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917032930/https://www.posta.hu/stamps/stamps/2011_2006/2007/the_hungarian_university_sports_federation_is_100_years_old|url-status=live}}
  • c. March 28 – The volcano Ksudach erupts, in the Kamchatka Peninsula.

= April =

  • April 7Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
  • April 17
  • The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering the South American dreadnought race.
  • Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration to the United States through Ellis Island;{{Cite web|url=https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/|title=Ellis Island|date=February 4, 2020|access-date=March 2, 2021|archive-date=June 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629161901/http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_timeline.asp|url-status=live}} this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ellis-island-closes|title=Ellis Island closes|publisher=History.com|work=This Day in History|date=1954-12-11|access-date=June 6, 2020|archive-date=June 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606211928/http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ellis-island-closes|url-status=live}}
  • April 24Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/news/y=2009/m=2/news=ahly-spirit-success-1031856.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202072543/http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2009/m=2/news=ahly-spirit-success-1031856.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2016|title=Al Ahly: Spirit of success|publisher=FIFA|date=2009-02-25|access-date=2017-02-25}}

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  • Indiana, in the United States, becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.
  • The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee de Forest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
  • The Autochrome Lumière is the first commercial color photography process.
  • James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
  • The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland is identified, one of the first to be discovered anywhere.{{cite book|author=Peach, B. N.|author-link=Ben Peach|title=The Geological Structure of the North-West Highlands of Scotland|series=Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Scotland|location=Glasgow|publisher=H.M.S.O|display-authors=etal}}
  • The Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret, a Danish national association for women's suffrage, is founded.
  • Anino ng Kahapon, a Tagalog-language novel is published.{{cite web | url = http://koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697 | title = Anino ng kahapon | language = Tagalog | last = Laksamana | first = Francisco | publisher = National Library of the Philippines | accessdate = July 3, 2011 | archive-date = March 17, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120317120853/http://koha.nlp.gov.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?bib=423697 | url-status = live }}
  • Henri Matisse begins to teach at the Académie Matisse in Paris, a private and non-commercial art school.
  • A statue of J. E. B. Stuart, Confederate general, is dedicated on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue.
  • Staviteľský robotník, a Slovak language biweekly newspaper, ends publication.Ondrej Pavlík. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ0bAQAAMAAJ Pedagogická encyklopédia Slovenska, Volume 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002175755/https://books.google.com/books?id=zJ0bAQAAMAAJ |date=October 2, 2023 }}. Veda, 1984. p. 646

Births

= January =

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= February =

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= March =

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= April =

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= May =

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= July =

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= October =

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= November =

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= December =

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Deaths

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Nobel Prizes

References

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Further reading

  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 143–57.
  • International Year Book: 1907 (1908) 1002pp, worldwide coverage [https://books.google.com/books?id=C2AMAAAAYAAJ online edition]

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