1907

	Cp	19th century
	C	20th century
	Cf	21st century
	Yp1	1904
	Yp2	1905
	Yp3	1906
	Year	1907
	Ya1	1908
	Ya2	1909
	Ya3	1910
	Dp3	1870s
	Dp2	1880s
	Dp1	1890s
	D	1900s
	Dn1	1910s
	Dn2	1920s
	Dn3	1930s

1907 (''' MCMVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian Calendar ).

EVENTS

January

January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for Working Class children in Rome (''Casa dei Bambini'' in San Lorenzo).

January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.

January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas , becomes the first Native American US Senator .

February

February 22 - Scouting is founded by Robert Baden-Powell in the United Kingdom .

March

March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russia n troops.

March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden ''(first and only as of 2004)''

March 22 - The first Cab s with Taxi Meter s began operating in London.

1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt

May

May 9 - Famed evangelist, Kathryn Kuhlman was born near Concordia, MO.

May 27 - A Bubonic Plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California .

June

June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in First-class Cricket until 1956 .

June 5 - BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.

June 11 - George Dennett , aided by Gilbert Jessop , dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in First-class Cricket .

July

July 6 - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen

July 25 - Korea becomes a Protectorate of Japan .

August

August 1 - 9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island , England .

August 28 - UPS was founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington .

August 31 - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente .

September

September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become a Dominion .

October

October 24 - A major American financial crisis was averted when J. P. Morgan , E. H. Harriman , James Stillman , Henry Clay Frick , and other Wall Street financiers created a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange .

The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School .

November

November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. State .

December

December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead

Undated

The '' Diamond Sutra '' of 868 , a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block Printing , is discovered in the Mogao Caves .

The Triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest , starting the development of Electronics as a practical technology.

The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.

Herero Wars end

French warship ''Jena'' explodes - 117 dead

First Parliamentary Election s in the Philippines

Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin

The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland becomes the first thrust belt to be discovered in the world.

The Lockport Powerhouse is built.

James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover Vacuum Cleaner

BIRTHS

January

January 12 - Sergei Korolev , Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966 )

January 20 - Paula Wessely , Austrian actress (d. 2000 )

January 23 - Hideki Yukawa , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981 )