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Everything about 1900s totally explainedEvents and trends
Technology
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
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)
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), 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
Kurt Atterberg
Béla Bartók
Nora Bayes
Jagdish Chandra Bose
Cathal Conroy
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
Paul Rossevelte
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
Louis Daniel ArmstrongFurther Information
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