| Marquess of Queensbury (boxing rules) dies Creation of the Labour Party Relief of Mafeking Paris International Exhibition - Metro system opens Campaign for pure beer Coca-Cola arrives in the UK Oscar Wilde dies |
1900 |
Planck
proposes quantum theory Arthur Evans starts work at Knossos Blood types A, B & C discovered Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams" |
| Queen Victoria dies Boxing legalised Walt Disney born (d.1966) |
1901 |
Nobel
Prizes first awarded Willhelm Roentgen wins Nobel Physics prize for discovery of X-rays Gillette launches first disposable razor 1st diesel motor car goes on show in UK 1st Transatlantic wireless message sent by Guglielmo Marconi |
| Masefield's
"Salt-Water Ballads" End of Boer War Ban on women bar staff in Glasgow overturned by appeal court New York State bans flirting in public Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" HG Wells's "The First Men on the Moon" Conan-Doyle revives Sherlock Holmes in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" Emile Zola dies |
1902 |
London
smallpox outbreak brings calls for national vaccination programme 1st special effects movie "A Trip to the Moon" produced by George Melies Barbituric acid (sleeping pills) patented |
| Tour de France cycle race launched Paul Gaugin dies James McNeill Whistler dies Barbara Hepworth (sculptor) born (d.1975) George Orwell born (d. 1950) |
1903 |
Wilber
and Orville Wright make first powered flight Richard Gatling dies Kew Bridge opens over River Thames London's first electric trams Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize |
| Henry Morton Stanley
dies Salvador Dali born (d.1989) |
1904 |
1st
attempt at talking pictures Metropolitan Underground line electrified in London |
| Automobile Association founded Dr Thomas John Barnardo dies Jules Verne dies |
1905 |
Einstein's
Miracle year including Special Theory of Relativity First successful cornea transplant takes place in Olomouc (Czech Republic) |
| Mt Vesuvius erupts San Francisco earthquake Paul Cezanne dies Henrik Ibsen dies |
1906 |
Position
of magnetic north established Pierre Curie dies in road accident Sonar invented 1st picture transmitted by telegraph |
| Finland elects worlds first women MPs Rudyard Kipling gets Nobel Prize for literature Herge born (Creator of Tintin. d.1983) Baden-Powell forms the Boy Scout movement Edvard Grieg (norwegian composer) dies |
1907 |
Pavlov's
dogs experiment |
| Gustav Klimt's "The
Kiss" Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" W G Grace plays his last season NSPCC founder Rev Benjamin Waugh dies Jack Johnson becomes the first black world heavyweight boxer |
1908 |
First
Model T Ford 1st person to die in a plane crash is Lt Thomas Selfridge (26) Ernest Rutherford wins Nobel chemistry prize Physicist Henri Becquerel dies |
| 1st closed top double decker buses arrive
in Widnes 1st old age pension paid in the UK - 5/- a week |
1909 |
Bakelite
first manufactured commercially Louis Bleriot is first man to fly accorss the Channel |
| Crippen hanged Girl Guides formed Mount Etna erupts Edward VII dies Florence Nightingale dies Mark Twain dies (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Holman Hunt dies Leo Tolstoy dies |
1910 |
Wicken
Fen drainage engine built Marie Curie isolates pure radium The Daylight Comet Return of Halley's Comet |
| Royal Liver Building, Liverpool built "Spirit of Ecstasy" figurine commissioned for Rolls-Royce Work completed on saving Winchester Cathedral from the "flood" Joseph Pulitzer (journalist and publisher) dies |
1911 |
Middlesborough
Transporter
Bridge opens
Marie Curie receives
(her second)
Nobel Prize
for Chemistry |
| Both boats sink in University Boat Race First aeroplane parachute jump made Royal Flying Corps (later RAF) founded 1st Keystone Cops film Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies |
1912 |
Titanic
sinks Marconi invents wireless compass Continental drift theory proposed by Alfred Wegener Joseph Lister (antiseptic pioneer) dies |
| Suffragette Emily Davison
dies Robert Falcon Scott and team found dead in Antarctica |
1913 |
Panama
Canal opens Edison invents telphone recorder |
| First World War starts Sir John Tenniel (Alice illustrator) dies |
1914 |
Edison
patents electric miners' safety lamp |