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Events and trends

Technology

Public flight demonstration of an airplane by Alberto Santos-Dumont in Paris, November 12, 1906.

• 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.

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

See also: List of years in literature#1900s

• 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

A shocked mandarin in Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria (British Empire), Wilhelm II (German Empire), Nicholas II (Imperial Russia), Marianne (French Third Republic), and Emperor Meiji (Empire of Japan) stabbing into a pie with Chine ("China" in French) written on it. A portrayal of New Imperialism and its effects on China.

• 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)

1. Mozzafar-al-Din Shah, 1896-1907
2. Mohammad Ali Shah, 1907-1909
3. 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 Armstrong

External links

• Year 1900s (Italian)