First Nobel Prizes
Nobel's will creates the top award in science and letters
On 10 December 1901, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace were awarded for the first time under his will. The Nobel Prize became the most prestigious award in science and culture.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 13 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 17 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 19 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 6 years earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 4 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 7 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 16 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 16 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 4 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 7 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 7 years later
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 14 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 15 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 16 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 16 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 15 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 4 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 3 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 18 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 16 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 7 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 7 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 5 years earlier
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 25 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 22 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 2 years later
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 5 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 13 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 8 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 8 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 10 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 82)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 73)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 67)
- Thomas Edison (aged 54)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 45)
- Marie Curie (aged 34)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 32)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 31)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 30)
- Winston Churchill (aged 27)