1907 год: Хроника событий

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January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.

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 16 – SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearing and seal), is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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.

May 13 – The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.

June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization. June 6 – Persil laundry detergent is first marketed by Henkel of Düsseldorf, Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially. June 10–August 10 – The Peking to Paris motor race is won by Prince Scipione Borghese, driving a 7 litre 35/45 hp Itala. June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague. June 22 – The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. June 26 – Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.

July 1 – The Orange River Colony gains autonomy, as the Orange Free State. July 6 – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen. July 15 – The London Electrobus Company starts running the first ever service of battery electric buses between London's Victoria Station and Liverpool Street. July 21 – The sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro, off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths. July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.

August 24–31 – The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands. August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington. August 29 – The partially completed superstructure of the Quebec Bridge collapses entirely, claiming the lives of 76 workers. August 31 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, bringing a pause in The Great Game in Central Asia, and establishing the Triple Entente.

September 7 – British passenger liner sets out on her maiden voyage, from Liverpool (England) to New York City. September 26 – New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions of the British Empire.

October – A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös, meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto. October 8 – Edvard Grieg's Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway. October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910), focussing on naval warfare. October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907. October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern day Slovakia). October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law is not implemented because it is not ratified by Grand Duke Nicholas II.

December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia. December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V, as king of Sweden. December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7 masted U. S. owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king of Bhutan). December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239. December 21 – Santa María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed. December 31 – The first ever "ball drop" is held in Times Square, in New York City.

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. The Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret, a Danish national association for women's suffrage, is founded. Anino ng Kahapon, a Tagalog language novel is published. 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.

January 3 – Mozaffar ad Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Iran (b. 1853)
January 13 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist (b. 1839)
January 14 – Hermann Iseke, German doctor (b. 1856)
January 19 – Giuseppe Saracco, 15th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1821)
January 21 – Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Italian linguist (b. 1829)
January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)

April 6 – William Henry Drummond, Irish Canadian poet (b. 1854)
April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, American lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor, and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1836)
April 23 – Alferd Packer, American cannibal (b. 1842)

May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, American poet (b. 1834)
May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (b. 1821)
May 6 – Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect, civil engineer (b. 1830)
May 12 – Joris Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer (b. 1840)
May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
May 27 – Kevork Chavush, Armenian national hero (b. 1870)

July 13 – Heinrich Kreutz, German astronomer (b. 1854)
July 14 – Sir William Perkin, English chemist (b. 1838)
July 15 – Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed (b. 1875)
July 28 – Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham, American travel writer (b. 1840)

September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
September 9 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
September 12 – Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer, Orthodox priest and saint (b. 1837)
September 19 – Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader (b. 1875)
September 22 – Wilbur Olin Atwater, American chemist (b. 1844)
September 30 – Sir John Ardagh, British army general (b. 1840)

October 10 – Adolf Furtwängler, German archaeologist, historian (b. 1853)
October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, American author (b. 1824)

November 1 – Alfred Jarry, French writer (b. 1873)
November 6 – Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
November 14 – Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian jurist and politician (b. 1848)
November 15 – Raphael Kalinowski, Polish Discalced Carmelite friar and saint (b. 1835)
November 16 – Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
November 17 – Sir Francis McClintock, Irish explorer and admiral in British Royal Navy (b. 1819)
November 20 – Paula Modersohn Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
November 22 – Asaph Hall, American astronomer (b. 1829)
November 23 – Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1832)
November 25 – Ludvig Mylius Erichsen, Danish explorer (b. 1872)
November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter and architect (b. 1869)
November 30 – Ludwig Levy, German architect (b. 1854)

December 4 – Luis Sáenz Peña, 12th President of Argentina (b. 1822)
December 8 – King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony (b. 1833)
December 17 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
December 20 – Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird, American author (b. 1826)
December 21 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)
December 23 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (b. 1824)
December 28 – Kate Stone, American diarist (b. 1841)
December 31 – Jules de Trooz, 18th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1857)

Ellen Russell Emerson, American ethnologist (b. 1837)
Sarah Gibson Humphreys, American author and suffragist (b. 1830)
Joseph Stannah, Founder of Stannah Lifts (b. 1836)