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| 1900 |
| | | Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie, receives no publicity because his publisher, Frank Doubleday, considers it immoral | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Sigmund Freud publishes one of his most significant works, The Interpretation of Dreams | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond | |
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| 1900 |
| | | More than 8000 people die when a hurricane demolishes the seaside resort of Galveston in Texas | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The American League emerges from baseball's Western League, before going national in 1901 | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Voice of the People is the first of Ellen Glasgow's novels set in her native state, Virginia | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Wilbur and Orville Wright test a biplane glider at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina | |
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| 1900 |
| | | In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail' | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Edward Elgar writes the oratorio Dream of Gerontius, setting Cardinal Newman's poem of the same title | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique | |
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| 1900 |
| | | German physicist Max Planck proposes the revolutionary concept of the quantum theory | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Lenin and comrades launch in Munich a radical newspaper, Iskra ('the spark') | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci | |
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| c. 1900 |
| | | The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov keeps dogs alive almost indefinitely by severely curtailing their bodily functions | |
|  | Five experimental dogs in Pavlov's laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1901 |
| | | Daimler cars launch a new brand, the Mercedes 35 hp, named after the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, after 63 years on the throne | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Edward VII is already 59 when he succeeds his mother, Victoria, as Britain's monarch | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Photographer Eadweard Muybridge extends the range of his studies with Human Figure in Motion | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, brings him immediate success | |
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| c. 1901 |
| | | A stele is found at Susa, in Iran, giving the text of the Code of Hammurabi | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Charles Voysey completes a house for himself, The Orchard, at Chorley Wood in Hertfordshire | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit | |
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| 1901 |
| | | The concept of instant coffee is developed in Chicago by the Japanese American chemist Satori Kato | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim | |
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