1900s (decade)
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This article is about the decade starting in 1900 and ending in 1909. "The aughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular terms for this decade at the time. For historiographical reasons, it is generally lumped in with the years leading to WWI.
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Events and trends
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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
- Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.
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Science
- Planck's law of black body radiation
- Einstein's theory of special relativity
- Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect
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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
- Abduction of Europe (Félix Vallotton)
- "Ornament and Crime" (1908) by Adolf Loos
- L'Art profane à l'église (1908) by Gustave-Joseph Witkowski
- The Intermediate Sex (1908) by Edward Carpenter
- Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (1908) by Julius von Schlosser
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War, peace and politics
- The New Imperialism
- Demand for Home Rule for Ireland
- Second Boer War ends
- Russo-Japanese War establishes the Empire of Japan as a world power
- The Russian Revolution of 1905.
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People
- President Theodore Roosevelt (United States), 1901-1909
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Important personalities
- Fatty Arbuckle
- Béla Bartók
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Enrico Caruso
- Claude Debussy
- Antonín Dvořák
- Edward Elgar
- Sigmund Freud
- Percy Grainger
- D. W. Griffith
- Harry Houdini
- Scott Joplin
- Rudyard Kipling
- Leadbelly
- Gustav Mahler
- Jules Massenet
- Georges Méliès
- Charles Pathé
- Edwin S. Porter
- Giacomo Puccini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Maurice Ravel
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Alexander Scriabin
- Edgard Varèse
- Anton Webern
- Israel Zangwill
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