1900 timeline

By rnerino
  • Lusitania

  • Great Migration timeframe

  • Wilson Presidency Term

  • WW1

  • Jeannette Rankin (first woman elected to congress)

  • Lenin led Russian Revolution

  • Selective Service Act

  • Espionage Act

  • Wilson’s 14 points

  • Influenza Epidemic

  • Sedition Act

  • Schenk vs US

  • 19th Amendment

  • Woodrow Wilson Suffers a Stroke

    Woodrow Wilson Suffers a Stroke
    Under heavy strain while on a speaking tour promoting the League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him largely incapacitated for the final 18 months of his term. He dies on February 3, 1924.
  • US rejects League of Nations membership

  • World Series of 1921

    World Series of 1921
    Baseball's World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time; the New York Giants defeat the New York Yankees, five games to three.
  • Ford Motor Company

    Ford Motor Company
    The market capitalization of Ford Motor Company exceeds $1 Billion. Ford is one of the few companies to survive the Great Depression.
  • Mickey Mouse

    Mickey Mouse
    Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie premiers,introducing the world to a new animated Mickey Mouse. Steamboat Willie was one of the first sound cartoons.
  • Chicago Mob

    Chicago Mob
    In the "Saint Valentines Day Massacre" the single bloodiest incident in a decade-long turf war between Chicago mobsters fighting to control the lucrative bootlegging trade, members of Al Capone's gang murder six followers of rival Bugs Moran.