1900–1909

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.

cience

* 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)
* 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

*Eugen d'Albert
*Hugo Alfvén
*Egbert Van Alstyne
*Broncho Billy Anderson
*Fatty Arbuckle
*Louis Daniel Armstrong
*Kurt Atterberg
*Béla Bartók
*Nora Bayes
*Jagdish Chandra Bose
*Irving Berlin
*Francis Boggs
*Frank Bridge
*Alfred Bryan
*Vincent P. Bryan
*Ferruccio Busoni
*Enrico Caruso
*Gustave Charpentier
*Thurland Chattaway
*Francesco Cilea
*Will D. Cobb
*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
*Lead Belly
*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 Kirke Spoor
*Charles Villiers Stanford
*Andrew B. Sterling
*Oscar Strauss
*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
*Ferdinand von Zeppelin
*Charles A. Zimmerman

External links

* [http://www.cronologia.org/20/secolo.htm Chronology of the 1900s] it icon
* [http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/index04.html "Los Angeles in the 1900s", a collection of newspaper articles and illustrations from 1900 to 1910]