1900s

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Rue de la Colonie (1900) - Eugène Atget

Great Train Robbery (1903) western film

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This article is about the decade starting in 1900 and ending in 1909.

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.

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

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 [[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]]]]
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 This article is about the [[decade]] starting in 1900 and ending in 1909.