Timeline of the Twentieth Century: 1900-1909

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Boxer Rebellion in China

Italy's King Assassinated

Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras

Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory

Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

Australia Becomes a Commonwealth

First Nobel Prizes Awarded

First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal

Queen Victoria Dies

U.S. President McKinley Assassinated

Boer War Ends

Mount Pelée Erupts

The Teddy Bear is Introduced

U.S. Passes the Chinese Exclusion Act

First Flight at Kitty Hawk

First License Plates Issued in the U.S.

First Message to Travel Around the World

First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery

First World Series

Plague in India

First Popular American Film

Ground Broken on Panama Canal

New York City Subway Opens

Russo-Japanese War Begins

Trans-Siberian Railway Completed

"Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of 1905

Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity

Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality

The Dreadnought Launched

Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote

Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes

President Roosevelt Simplifies Spelling

San Francisco Earthquake

Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle

Ten Rules of War Established at the Second Hague Peace Conference

First Electric Washing Machine

Picasso Introduces Cubism

Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time

Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000

Ford Introduces the Model-T

SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal

Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China

The Tunguska Event: Huge and Mysterious Explosion in Siberia

Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire

Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated

NAACP Is Founded

Plastic Is Invented

Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole

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