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This article is about the decade starting in 1900 and ending in 1909. For the century starting in 1901 and ending in 2000, see 20th century.

Millennia:	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

Events and trends

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
The Archaeology Guild of Burkina Faso is founded by James Martin.
Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.

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
Surrealism
Joseph Conrad publishes the novella Heart of Darkness in 1902, after the serial release in 1898

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.

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