1900s

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Events and trends

Technology

Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft
Mass production of the automobile
Wide popularity of home phonograph
Panama Canal is built by the United States
The Photostat machine begins modern era of document imaging
Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.

Science

Planck's law of black body radiation
Einstein's theory of special relativity
Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect

Literature and art

Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered by some to be the birth of modern art.
Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness
Thomas Mann publishes Buddenbrooks
Cubism
Fauvism
Joseph Conrad publishes the novella Heart of Darkness in 1902, after the serial release in 1898
Joseph Conrad publishes The Secret Agent in 1907
Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild in 1903
Serbian writers use the Belgrade literary style, an Ekavian writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language

War, peace and politics

The New Imperialism
Demand for Home Rule for Ireland
Second Boer War ends
American proclamation of the end of the Philippine-American War
British colonies in Australia federate, forming the Commonwealth of Australia
Russo-Japanese War establishes the Empire of Japan as a world power
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign Entente Cordiale
The Russian Revolution of 1905.

People

World leaders

Prime Minister Edmund Barton (Australia)
Prime Minister Alfred Deakin (Australia)
Prime Minister Chris Watson (Australia)
Prime Minister Sir George Reid (Australia)
Prime Minister Andrew Fisher (Australia)
Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)
Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canada)
Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)
King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India
Pope Leo XIII
Pope Pius X
President Porfirio Díaz (Mexico)
Emperor Nicholas II (Russia)
King Alfonso XIII (Spain)
Prime Minister Antonio Maura (Spain)
Queen Victoria (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
King Edward VII (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
President William McKinley (United States), 1896-1901
President Theodore Roosevelt (United States), 1901-1909
President William Howard Taft (United States), 1909-1913
Shahs of Persia (Qajar dynasty)
Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907
Mohammad Ali Shah, 1907-1909
Ahmad Shah Qajar, 1909-1925

Important personalities

External links

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