1900s
Events and Trends
Technology
- Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft
- Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft
- Mass production of automobile
- Wide popularity of home phonograph
- Panama Canal is built by the United States
Science
- Planck's law of black body radiation
- Einstein's theory of special relativity
- Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect
War, peace and politics
- The New Imperialism
- Demand for Home Rule for Ireland
- Second Boer War ends
- British colonies in Australia federate, forming the Commonwealth of Australia
- Russo-Japanese War establishes Japan as a world power
- UK and France sign Entente Cordiale
- The Russian Revolution of 1905
Culture, religion
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