1900S

Contents

Events and trends

Technology

Science

Literature and art

War, peace and politics

People

World leaders

Important personalities

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

★ The Archaeology Guild of Burkina Faso is founded by James Martin.

★ 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

★ Surrealism

★ Joseph Conrad publishes the novella Heart of Darkness in 1902, after the serial release in 1898

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)

★ Pope Leo XIII

★ Pope Pius X

★ 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)

★ President Theodore Roosevelt (United States)

★ Shahs of Persia (Qajar dynasty)
# Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907
# Mohammad Ali Shah, 1907-1909
# Ahmad Shah Qajar, 1909-1925

Important personalities

★ Eugen d'Albert

★ Hugo Alfvén

★ Egbert Van Alstyne

★ Broncho Billy Anderson

★ Fatty Arbuckle

★ Kurt Atterberg

★ Béla Bartók

★ Nora Bayes

★ Irving Berlin

★ Francis Boggs

★ Frank Bridge

★ Alfred Bryan

★ Vincent P. Bryan

★ Ferruccio Busoni

★ Enrico Caruso

★ Gustave Charpentier

★ Thurland Chattaway

★ Francesco Cilea

★ Will D. Cobb

★ George M. Cohan

★ Bob Cole

★ Frederick Converse

★ Henry Creamer

★ Henry Walford Davies

★ Peter Dawson

★ Claude Debussy

★ Frederick Delius

★ Paul Dresser

★ Antonín Dvořák

★ Gus Edwards

★ Edward Elgar

★ August Enna

★ Manuel de Falla

★ Geraldine Farrar

★ Fred Fisher

★ Paul Le Flem

★ Sigmund Freud

★ Rudolf Friml

★ Julius Fučík

★ Amelita Galli-Curci

★ Mary Garden

★ Edward German

★ Alexander Glazunov

★ Emilio de Gogorza

★ Percy Grainger

★ Enrique Granados

★ D. W. Griffith

★ Guy d'Hardelot

★ Hamilton Harty

★ The Haydn Quartet

★ Anna Held

★ Victor Herbert

★ Max Hoffmann

★ Gustav Holst

★ Abe Holzmann

★ David Horsley

★ Harry Houdini

★ Mississippi John Hurt

★ Jenö Huszka

★ Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

★ Carrie Jacobs-Bond

★ William Jerome

★ J. Rosamond Johnson

★ James Weldon Johnson

★ Scott Joplin

★ Gus Kahn

★ Jerome Kern

★ Rudyard Kipling

★ Carl Laemmle

★ Harry Lauder

★ Leadbelly

★ Franz Lehár

★ Ruggiero Leoncavallo

★ Paul Lincke

★ Gustav Mahler

★ Arthur Marshall

★ Jules Massenet

★ Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

★ Nellie Melba

★ Georges Méliès

★ Kerry Mills

★ Billy Murray

★ Evelyn Nesbit

★ Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin

★ Carl Nielsen

★ Jack Norworth

★ Vítězslav Novák

★ Maude Nugent

★ Sidney Olcott

★ Charles Pathé

★ Edwin S. Porter

★ Giacomo Puccini

★ Sergei Rachmaninoff

★ Maurice Ravel

★ Ottorino Respighi

★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

★ Landon Ronald

★ Paul Sarebresole

★ Arnold Schoenberg

★ Jean Schwartz

★ James Scott

★ Alexander Scriabin

★ William Selig

★ Chris Smith

★ Harry B. Smith

★ Ethel Smyth

★ John Philip Sousa

★ George K. Spoor

★ Charles Villiers Stanford

★ Andrew B. Sterling

★ Oscar Strauss

★ Richard Strauss

★ Igor Stravinsky

★ Leslie Stuart

★ Josef Suk

★ Sergei Taneyev

★ Albert Von Tilzer

★ Harry Von Tilzer

★ Tom Turpin

★ Edgard Varèse

★ Vesta Victoria

★ Anton Webern

★ Percy Wenrich

★ Bert Williams

★ Harry Williams

★ Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

★ Amy Woodforde-Finden

★ Israel Zangwill

★ Charles A. Zimmerman

★ Louis Daniel Armstrong