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| - | {{Template}}the decade starting in 1900 and ending in 1909| the century starting in 1901 and ending in 2000|20th century}} | + | [[Image:Trente-six vues de la tour Eiffel - Planche 3, Le tour en construction, vue du Trocadéro.jpg|thumb|left|200px|One of the ''[[Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower]]'' (1902) by Henri Rivière]] |
| - | {{Decadebox|190}} | + | [[Image:Le Voyage dans la lune.jpg|200px|thumb|right|''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'' ([[1902]]) [[Georges Méliès]]]] |
| + | [[Image:The Big Swallow.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Extreme [[close-up]] from the movie "[[The Big Swallow]]" ([[1901]]), produced and directed by [[James Williamson]] (1855-1933)]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Danae.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Danaë]]'' ([[1907]]-[[1908|08]]) - [[Gustav Klimt]]]][[Image:Eugene Atget.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Rue de la Colonie'' ([[1900]]) - [[Eugène Atget]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Great Train Robbery still, public domain film.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Great Train Robbery]]'' ([[1903]]) [[western film]]]] | ||
| + | [[Image:Chimpanzee Typing (1907) - New York Zoological Society.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Chimpanzee Typing]]'' (1907) - New York Zoological Society]] | ||
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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== | ==Events and trends== | ||
| ===Technology=== | ===Technology=== | ||
| - | [[Image:14bis2.jpg|thumb|300px|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]] | * [[Lawrence Hargrave]] makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air [[aircraft]] | ||
| * Mass production of the [[automobile]] | * Mass production of the [[automobile]] | ||
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| * The [[Photostat machine]] begins modern era of document imaging | * The [[Photostat machine]] begins modern era of document imaging | ||
| * [[Wright Brothers]] fly at Kitty Hawk, NC. | * [[Wright Brothers]] fly at Kitty Hawk, NC. | ||
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| ===Science=== | ===Science=== | ||
| * [[Planck's law of black body radiation]] | * [[Planck's law of black body radiation]] | ||
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| * [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes [[The Secret Agent]] in 1907 | * [[Joseph Conrad]] publishes [[The Secret Agent]] in 1907 | ||
| * [[Jack London]] publishes [[The Call of the Wild]] in 1903 | * [[Jack London]] publishes [[The Call of the Wild]] in 1903 | ||
| - | * [[Serbian language|Serbian writers]] use the [[Belgrade]] literary style, an [[Ekavian]] writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language | + | *[[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 | ||
| ===War, peace and politics=== | ===War, peace and politics=== | ||
| - | [[Image:China imperialism cartoon.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A shocked [[Mandarin (bureaucrat)|mandarin]] in [[Manchu]] robe in the back, with [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] ([[British Empire]]), [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]] ([[German Empire]]), [[Nicholas II of Russia|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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| * The [[New Imperialism]] | * The [[New Imperialism]] | ||
| * Demand for Home Rule for [[Ireland]] | * Demand for Home Rule for [[Ireland]] | ||
| * [[Second Boer War]] ends | * [[Second Boer War]] ends | ||
| - | * American proclamation of the end of the [[Philippine-American War]] | ||
| - | * British colonies in Australia [[Australian Federation|federate]], forming the [[Commonwealth of Australia]] | ||
| * [[Russo-Japanese War]] establishes the [[Empire of Japan]] as a world power | * [[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]]. | * The [[Russian Revolution of 1905]]. | ||
| ==People== | ==People== | ||
| - | ===World leaders=== | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister [[Edmund Barton]] ([[Australia]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister [[Alfred Deakin]] ([[Australia]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister [[Chris Watson]] ([[Australia]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister Sir [[George Reid (Australian politician)|George Reid]] ([[Australia]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister [[Andrew Fisher]] ([[Australia]]) | + | |
| - | * Emperor [[Franz Josef of Austria|Franz Josef]] ([[Austria-Hungary]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]] ([[Canada]]) | + | |
| - | * Emperor [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Wilhelm II]] ([[Germany]]) | + | |
| - | * King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]] ([[Italy]]) | + | |
| - | * [[George Nathaniel Curzon]], Viceroy of [[India]] | + | |
| - | * [[Pope Leo XIII]] | + | |
| - | * [[Pope Pius X]] | + | |
| - | * President [[Porfirio Díaz]] ([[Mexico]]) | + | |
| - | * Emperor [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] ([[Russia]]) | + | |
| - | * King [[Alfonso XIII]] ([[Spain]]) | + | |
| - | * Prime Minister [[Antonio Maura]] ([[Spain]]) | + | |
| - | * Queen [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Victoria]] ([[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]) | + | |
| - | * King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|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 [[Theodore Roosevelt]] ([[United States]]), 1901-1909 | ||
| - | * President [[William Howard Taft]] ([[United States]]), 1909-1913 | ||
| - | * [[Shah]]s of [[Persia]] ([[Qajar dynasty]]) | ||
| - | # [[Mozzafar-al-Din Shah]], 1896-1907 | ||
| - | # [[Mohammad Ali Shah]], 1907-1909 | ||
| - | # [[Ahmad Shah Qajar]], 1909-1925 | ||
| ===Important personalities=== | ===Important personalities=== | ||
| - | *[[Eugen d'Albert]] | ||
| - | *[[Hugo Alfvén]] | ||
| - | *[[Egbert Van Alstyne]] | ||
| - | *[[Broncho Billy Anderson]] | ||
| *[[Fatty Arbuckle]] | *[[Fatty Arbuckle]] | ||
| - | *[[Kurt Atterberg]] | ||
| *[[Béla Bartók]] | *[[Béla Bartók]] | ||
| - | *[[Nora Bayes]] | ||
| - | *[[Jagdish Chandra Bose]] | ||
| - | *[[Cathal Conroy]] | ||
| - | *[[Irving Berlin]] | ||
| - | *[[Francis Boggs]] | ||
| - | *[[Frank Bridge]] | ||
| - | *[[Alfred Bryan]] | ||
| - | *[[Vincent P. Bryan]] | ||
| *[[Ferruccio Busoni]] | *[[Ferruccio Busoni]] | ||
| *[[Enrico Caruso]] | *[[Enrico Caruso]] | ||
| - | *[[Gustave Charpentier]] | ||
| - | *[[Thurland Chattaway]] | ||
| - | *[[Francesco Cilea]] | ||
| - | *[[Will D. Cobb]] | ||
| - | *[[George M. Cohan]] | ||
| - | *[[Bob Cole (composer)|Bob Cole]] | ||
| - | *[[Frederick Converse]] | ||
| - | *[[Henry Creamer]] | ||
| - | *[[Henry Walford Davies]] | ||
| - | *[[Peter Dawson]] | ||
| *[[Claude Debussy]] | *[[Claude Debussy]] | ||
| - | *[[Frederick Delius]] | ||
| - | *[[Paul Dresser]] | ||
| *[[Antonín Dvořák]] | *[[Antonín Dvořák]] | ||
| - | *[[Gus Edwards (songwriter)|Gus Edwards]] | ||
| *[[Edward Elgar]] | *[[Edward Elgar]] | ||
| - | *[[August Enna]] | ||
| - | *[[Manuel de Falla]] | ||
| - | *[[Geraldine Farrar]] | ||
| - | *[[Fred Fisher]] | ||
| - | *[[Paul Le Flem]] | ||
| *[[Sigmund Freud]] | *[[Sigmund Freud]] | ||
| - | *[[Rudolf Friml]] | ||
| - | *[[Julius Fučík (composer)|Julius Fučík]] | ||
| - | *[[Amelita Galli-Curci]] | ||
| - | *[[Mary Garden]] | ||
| - | *[[Edward German]] | ||
| - | *[[Alexander Glazunov]] | ||
| - | *[[Emilio de Gogorza]] | ||
| *[[Percy Grainger]] | *[[Percy Grainger]] | ||
| - | *[[Enrique Granados]] | ||
| *[[D. W. Griffith]] | *[[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]] | *[[Harry Houdini]] | ||
| - | *[[Mississippi John Hurt]] | ||
| - | *[[Jenö Huszka]] | ||
| - | *[[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]] | ||
| - | *[[Carrie Jacobs-Bond]] | ||
| - | *[[William Jerome]] | ||
| - | *[[J. Rosamond Johnson]] | ||
| - | *[[James Weldon Johnson]] | ||
| *[[Scott Joplin]] | *[[Scott Joplin]] | ||
| - | *[[Gus Kahn]] | ||
| - | *[[Jerome Kern]] | ||
| *[[Rudyard Kipling]] | *[[Rudyard Kipling]] | ||
| - | *[[Carl Laemmle]] | ||
| - | *[[Harry Lauder]] | ||
| *[[Leadbelly]] | *[[Leadbelly]] | ||
| - | *[[Franz Lehár]] | ||
| - | *[[Ruggiero Leoncavallo]] | ||
| - | *[[Paul Lincke]] | ||
| *[[Gustav Mahler]] | *[[Gustav Mahler]] | ||
| - | *[[Arthur Marshall (ragtime composer)|Arthur Marshall]] | ||
| *[[Jules Massenet]] | *[[Jules Massenet]] | ||
| - | *[[Nikolai Karlovich Medtner]] | ||
| - | *[[Nellie Melba]] | ||
| *[[Georges Méliès]] | *[[Georges Méliès]] | ||
| - | *[[Kerry Mills]] | ||
| - | *[[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]] | ||
| - | *[[Evelyn Nesbit]] | ||
| - | *[[Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin]] | ||
| - | *[[Carl Nielsen]] | ||
| - | *[[Jack Norworth]] | ||
| - | *[[Vítězslav Novák]] | ||
| - | *[[Maude Nugent]] | ||
| - | *[[Sidney Olcott]] | ||
| *[[Charles Pathé]] | *[[Charles Pathé]] | ||
| *[[Edwin S. Porter]] | *[[Edwin S. Porter]] | ||
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| *[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] | *[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] | ||
| *[[Maurice Ravel]] | *[[Maurice Ravel]] | ||
| - | *[[Ottorino Respighi]] | ||
| *[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] | *[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] | ||
| - | *[[Landon Ronald]] | ||
| - | *[[Paul Sarebresole]] | ||
| *[[Arnold Schoenberg]] | *[[Arnold Schoenberg]] | ||
| - | *[[Jean Schwartz]] | ||
| - | *[[James Scott (musician)|James Scott]] | ||
| *[[Alexander Scriabin]] | *[[Alexander Scriabin]] | ||
| - | *[[William Selig]] | ||
| - | *[[Chris Smith (composer)|Chris Smith]] | ||
| - | *[[Harry B. Smith]] | ||
| - | *[[Ethel Smyth]] | ||
| - | *[[John Philip Sousa]] | ||
| - | *[[George K. Spoor]] | ||
| - | *[[Charles Villiers Stanford]] | ||
| - | *[[Andrew B. Sterling]] | ||
| - | *[[Oscar Straus (composer)|Oscar Strauss]] | ||
| - | *[[Paul Rossevelte]] | ||
| - | *[[Harry Von Tilzer]] | ||
| - | *[[Tom Turpin]] | ||
| *[[Edgard Varèse]] | *[[Edgard Varèse]] | ||
| - | *[[Vesta Victoria]] | ||
| *[[Anton Webern]] | *[[Anton Webern]] | ||
| - | *[[Percy Wenrich]] | ||
| - | *[[Bert Williams]] | ||
| - | *[[Harry Williams]] | ||
| - | *[[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari]] | ||
| - | *[[Amy Woodforde-Finden]] | ||
| *[[Israel Zangwill]] | *[[Israel Zangwill]] | ||
| - | *[[Charles A. Zimmerman]] | ||
| - | *[[Louis Daniel Armstrong]] | ||
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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.
Contents |
Events and trends
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.
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
- 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
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.
People
- President Theodore Roosevelt (United States), 1901-1909
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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