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The [[decade]] from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 1910 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. |
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==Events and trends== |
==Events and trends== |
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The decade from January 1, 1901 to December 31, 1910 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
- 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
- Art Nouveau
- 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
Modern artists 1900-1910
- Umberto Boccioni
- Pierre Bonnard
- Georges Braque
- Paul Cézanne
- Marc Chagall
- Edgar Degas
- André Derain
- Raoul Dufy
- Paul Gauguin
- Juan Gris
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Gustav Klimt
- Fernand Léger
- Kazimir Malevich
- Henri Matisse
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Claude Monet
- Pablo Picasso
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Auguste Rodin
- Georges Rouault
- Henri Rousseau
- Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Egon Schiele
- Gino Severini
- Paul Signac
- Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
- Suzanne Valadon
- Maurice de Vlaminck
Posthumous
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)
- 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)
- Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907
- Mohammad Ali Shah, 1907-1909
- Ahmad Shah Qajar, 1909-1925
Important personalities
Sports
Boxing
- James J. Jeffries (boxing)
- Jack Johnson (boxing)
Baseball
- Chief Bender
- 3-Finger Brown
- Jack Chesbro
- Ty Cobb
- Pud Galvin
- Addie Joss
- Nap Lajoie
- Sam Leever
- Christy Mathewson
- John McGraw
- Kid Nichols
- Eddie Plank
- Tris Speaker
- Rube Waddell
- Honus Wagner
- Big Ed Walsh
- Cy Young