1900s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
Events and Trends
Technology
- Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft
- Mass production of automobile
- Wide popularity of home phonograph
Science
- Planck's law of black body radiation
- Einstein's theory of special relativity
- Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect
War, peace and politics
- The New Imperialism
- Demand of Home Rule for Ireland
- Second Boer War ends
- Australia becomes independent
- Russo-Japanese War establishes Japan as a world power
- UK and France sign Entente Cordiale
Economics
Culture, religion
Others
World Leaders
- 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)
- Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)
- King Edward VII (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour (United Kingdom)
- Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (United Kingdom)
- President William McKinley (United States)
- President Theodore Roosevelt (United States)
Important Personalities
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