| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments |
The decade from January 1, 1900, to December 31, 1909, is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, although this term can equally be used for the years 1900–1999. "The aughts", or "naughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular contemporary terms for this decade.
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Events and trends
Technologies
- Widespread application of the internal combustion engine including mass production of the automobile
- Wide popularity of home phonograph
- The Panama Canal is built by the United States
- The Photostat machine begins the modern era of document imaging
- The Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.
- 1900 Thomas Alva Edison invents the nickel-alkaline storage battery
- 1900 The brownie camera is invented, this was the beginning of the Kodak company
- 1901 First electric typewriter is invented by George Canfield Blickensderfer
- 1901 the first radio receiver (successfully received a radio transmission)
- 1902 Willis H. Carrier invented the first indoor air conditioning
- 1902 James Mackenzie invented the lie detector
- 1902 George Claude invented the neon light
- 1903 Mary Anderson invented windshield wipers
- 1904 Tea maker invented
- 1904 Benjamin Holt invents the tractor
- 1906 The jukebox is invented by John Gabel
- 1906 Sound radio broadcasting was invented by Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest
- 1907 Edison invented the universal electric motor
- 1908 Henry Ford Model T
Science
- Planck's law of black body radiation
- Einstein's theory of special relativity
- Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect
- Seismographs built in the University of California, Berkley, in 1900
- Practical air conditioner designed by Willis H Carrier in 1902
- Geiger Counter (measures radioactivity) invented by Hans Geiger in 1908
- Radioactivity discovered by Marie Curie
- Third Law of Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst
- Quantum Hypothesis by Max Planck in 1900
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
- Art Nouveau
- 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
- Lucy Maud Montgomery publishes Anne of Green Gables in 1908
- Serbian writers use the Belgrade literary style, an Ekavian writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language
Modern artists 1900–1910
- Umberto Boccioni
- Pierre Bonnard
- Georges Braque
- Paul Cézanne
- Marc Chagall
- Edgar Degas
- André Derain
- Raoul Dufy
- Paul Gauguin
- Juan Gris
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Gustav Klimt
- Fernand Léger
- Kazimir Malevich
- Henri Matisse
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Claude Monet
- Pablo Picasso
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Auguste Rodin
- Georges Rouault
- Henri Rousseau
- Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Egon Schiele
- Gino Severini
- Paul Signac
- Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
- Suzanne Valadon
- Maurice de Vlaminck
Posthumous
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
Sports
Boxing
See also: International Boxing Hall of Fame
- Tommy Burns (boxer)
- Marvin Hart (boxing)
- James J. Jeffries (boxing)
- Jack Johnson (boxing)
- Kid McCoy (boxing)
Baseball
See also: History of baseball in the United States
- Chief Bender
- 3-Finger Brown
- Jack Chesbro
- Ty Cobb
- Pud Galvin
- Addie Joss
- Nap Lajoie
- Sam Leever
- Christy Mathewson
- John McGraw
- Kid Nichols
- Eddie Plank
- Tris Speaker
- Rube Waddell
- Honus Wagner
- Big Ed Walsh
- Cy Young
Further reading
- Hale, Williams Bayard (January 1911). "A Dramatic Decade of History: What The First Ten Years Of The Twentienth Century Witnessed Of International Stir - A Time Prolific In Wars, Revolutions And Revolts, National Tragedy And Intrigue". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13855–13868.
- Hutchinson, Woods (January 1911). "The Conquest Of The Great Diseases: The National Death-Rate Reduced 10 PerCent, The Discovery Of The Hook-Worm And The "Typhoid Fly", Meningitis And Syphilis Both Conquered During The Decade, The Passing Of Yellow Fever". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13881–13883.
- Keys, C.M. (January 1911). "Ten Years Of Industrial America: Manufacturing Industry Far Outpacing Agriculture". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13884–13897.
- Page (editor), Walter Hines (January 1911). "The Astronomical Romance Of A Decade: The Story of Ten Years' Advance In Knowledge Of The Heavens". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13877–13880.
- Mahan, Alfred T. (January 1911). "The Battleship Of All-Big-Guns: How The Coming Of The "Dreadnought" Made The World's Navies Partly Obsolete, Germany's Growing Commerce Is Responsible For Changes In Many Navies, The Rise of Three Great Navies In Ten Years". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13898–13902.
- Sloss, Robert (January 1911). "The Children Of The Gas-Engine: The Revolution In Speed And In Convenience In Transportation - Automobiles, Motor-Cycles, Motor-Boats, Aeroplanes And Other Queer Craft That Ten Years Have Brought". The World's Work: A History of Our Time XXI: 13869–13877.
References
- ^ http://www.enotes.com/1900-science-technology-american-decades/important-events-science-technology http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/06/16/invented-earlier-than-youd-think-pt-2-answering-machines http://library.thinkquest.org.J0111064/00inventions.html http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-radio-who-invented-the-radio.html http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdbell.htm http://inventions.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth.htm http://www.thomasedison.com/inventions.htm http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=254
- ^ http://www.enotes.com/1900-science-technology-american-decades/important-events-science-technology
- ^ http://blog.modernmachanix.com/2008/06/16/invented-earlier-than-youd-think-pt-2-answering-machines
- ^ http://library.thinkquest.rg/J0111064/00invetnions.html
- ^ http://www.buzzle.com/articles/history-of-radio-who-invented-the-radio.html
- ^ http://gardenofpraise/ibdbell.htm
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