What happened in 1907

23 events　World 2, North America 4, Europe 11, USSR / Russia 2, Asia 1, Latin America 2, Oceania 1

Highlights of 1907

Mar 15EuropeElections 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.
Jun 5AsiaShastri 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.
Jun 26USSR / RussiaTiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.
Jul 24WorldThe Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.
Aug 28North AmericaUPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
Dec 21Latin AmericaSanta María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed.

MarThe 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths.
Jul 24The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.

Aug 28UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
Oct 24A 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.
Dec 6Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
James M. Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.

Feb 9The "Mud March", the first large procession organised by The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
Feb 16SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand is founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mar 11The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.
Mar 15Elections 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.
Apr 17The 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.
May 13The 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party convenes in secret in London.
Jun 6Persil laundry detergent is first marketed by Henkel of Düsseldorf, Germany, the first to combine bleach with detergent commercially.
Aug 24The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
Sep 8Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church.
Oct 6The Deutscher Werkbund is founded in Germany.
Oct 27Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia).

Jun 26Tiflis bank robbery: Bolsheviks attack a cash-filled bank coach in the centre of Tiflis, Georgia, killing 40 people.
Aug 31Count 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.

Jun 5Shastri 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.

Jan 141907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
Dec 21Santa María School massacre: In Chile, soldiers fire at striking mineworkers gathered in the Santa María School in Iquique; over 2,000 are killed.