1900

The Second Boer War - 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902.

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February 8: Kodak introduces Brownie cameras. Manufacturer George Eastman would like a camera in every home, so the cameras sell for $1. Film was 15 cents, plus a 40 cent processing fee.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. Published: May 17, 1900.

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1901

March 6 – In Bremen, an assassination attempt is made on Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

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September 6: President William McKinley is assassinated, and at the age of 42, his vice president Theodore Roosevelt is inaugurated as the youngest U.S. president ever.

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December 3 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".

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1902

The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin).

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August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile, a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.

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September 1 – The first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), is premièred at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France, by actor/producer Georges Méliès, and proves an immediate success.

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November 16: After President Teddy Roosevelt refuses to kill a tied-up bear during a hunting trip, Washington Post political cartoonist Clifford Berryman satirizes the event by drawing a cute fuzzy teddy bear. Morris Michtom and his wife soon decided to create a stuffed bear as a children's toy, calling it "Teddy's Bear."

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1903

March 5 – The Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign an agreement to build the Constantinople–Baghdad Railway. It went on to built from 1910 to 1940.

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September 27 – The Wreck of the Old 97 Fast Mail train at Stillhouse Trestle, near Danville, Virginia, kills 11 people and inspires a ballad.

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December 17: The Wright Brothers succeed in making a powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, an event that would change the world and have a huge impact on the century to come.

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1904

Russo-Japanese War - 1904-1905.

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March 26 – 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.

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April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ending in fact the practice of plural marriage, which had continued to be practiced by many of its leaders, in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the practice. Issued on September 25th.

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September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.

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October 24: The first rapid transit subway line on the New York Subway makes its first run, running from the City Hall subway station to 145th street.

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December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.

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1905

Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are banned from the Brooklyn Public Library, for setting a "bad example." Wolves become extinct in Japan. Non-aboriginal women are given the vote and admitted to the practice of law in Queensland. Workers' compensation is introduced in Queensland.

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May 11 – Albert Einstein submits for publication his paper "Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen" ("On the Motion of Small Particles Suspended in a Stationary Liquid, as Required by the Molecular Kinetic Theory of Heat"), based on his doctoral research, delineating a stochastic model of Brownian motion (published July 18). Albert Einstein proposes his Theory of Relativity explaining the behavior of objects in space and time; it will have ​a profound influence on the way we understand the universe.

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June 19: The first movie theater opens in the United States, the Nickelodeon in Pittsburgh, and is said to have shown "The Baffled Burglar."

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August 2 - The Ancient Order of Druids initiate neo-Druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England.

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1906

January 12 - Persian Constitutional Revolution. In other words, I think this is when Persia became Iran. And Persia was Elam. And Elam was probably a descendant or somewhat related to Shem, the cursed son of Noah. When I hear Persia, I think about the ancient Persian Empire. I also think about that video game, Prince of Persia. Susa was what is now modern-day Shush, Khuzestan Province, Iran. Some say Susa dates back as far as 7000 BC. Susa was a principal city of the Elamite, Achaemenid Persian, and Parthian empires and was originally known to the Elamites as 'Susan' or 'Susun'. The Greek name for the city was Sousa and the Hebrew, Shushan. It is mentioned in the Bible in the books of Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and most notably the Book of Esther and was said to be the home of both Nehemiah and Daniel. [Elam was a region in or around what is now Iraq in part and an emphasis on Iran. The name comes from the Akkadian and Sumerian for “highlands” or “high country” while the Elamites referred to their land as Haltami (or Haltamti) which seems to have had the same meaning. The Bible (Genesis 10:22) claims the region is named for Elam, son of Shem, son of Noah.

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W.K. Kellogg opens a new factory in Battle Creek, Michigan and hires 44 employees to produce the initial production batch of Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

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1907

July 24 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907 brings the government and military of the protectorate of Korea more firmly under Japanese control.

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August 28 – American Messenger Company, as predecessor of United Parcel Service founded in Washington State, United States.

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October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications, between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

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October 18: The Ten Rules of War are established at the Second Hague Peace Conference, defining 56 articles dealing with the treatment of sick and wounded, prisoners of war, and spies and including a list of prohibited weapons.

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1908

According to NASA reports, 1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.

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July 3 – Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Major Ahmed Niyazi, with 200 followers (Ottoman troops and civilians), begins an open revolution by defecting from the 3rd Army Corps in Macedonia, decamping into the hill country.

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August 8 - Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe.

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1909

February 5: U.S. chemist Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) presents his invention, the first synthetic plastic known as Bakelite, to the American Chemical Society.

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March 31 – Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.

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June 2 – French forces capture Abéché, capital of the Wadai Empire in central Africa.

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October 26: Japan's former prime minister Prince Itō Hirobumi is assassinated by a Korean independence activist.

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December 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made at East London, by French aviator Albert Kimmerling, in a Voisin 1907 biplane.

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