The decade from 1900 through 1909 is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, although this term can equally be used for the years 1900–1999. "The aughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular contemporary terms for this decade.

Events and trends

Technologies

• 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

See also: List of years in literature#1900s

• 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
• Lucy Maud Montgomery publishes Anne of Green Gables in 1908
• 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

A shocked mandarin in Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria (British Empire), Wilhelm II (German Empire), Nicholas II (Imperial Russia), Marianne (French Third Republic), and a samurai (Empire of Japan) stabbing into a pie with Chine ("China" in French) written on it. A portrayal of New Imperialism and its effects on China.

• 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)
• Tsar 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)

1. Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907
2. Mohammad Ali Shah, 1907-1909
3. Ahmad Shah Qajar, 1909-1925

Important personalities

External links

• Chronology of the 1900s (Italian)
• Los Angeles in the 1900s, a collection of newspaper articles and illustrations from 1900 to 1910

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