1900
 | Boxer Rebellion in China |
| George Eastman makes first portable camera that's
affordable to the public |
| Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory |
1901
| First Nobel Prizes Awarded |
| Electric typewriter is invented |
| First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal |
| Queen Victoria Dies |
| The first vacuum cleaner |
1902
| Boer War Ends |
| Education Act provides free Secondary Schooling |
| The Teddy Bear is Introduced |
1903
| First Flight at Kitty Hawk |
| Henry Ford founds Ford Motor Co. |
| First 20mph speed limit on British roads |
| First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery |
1904
| New York City Subway Opens |
| The answering machine is invented |
| Russo-Japanese War Begins |
| Trans-Siberian Railway Completed |
1905
| "Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of
1905 |
| Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity |
| The Jukebox is invented with 24 songs. |
1906
| The Dreadnought Launched |
| Finland First European Country to Give Women the
Right to Vote |
| Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes |
| General Election gives Liberals big majority |
| An animated cartoon is created |
| Labour Party founded in Britain |
1907
| First Electric Washing Machine |
| Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scouts |
| Typhoid Mary Captured for the First Time |
1908
| Earthquake in Italy Kills 150,000 |
| Ford Introduces the Model-T |
| Old age pensions introduced in Britain |
1909
| Plastic is Invented |
| Bleriot flies the English Channel |
1910
| Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance |
| The Tango Catches On |
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1911
| Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an
Atom |
| Greenwich Mean Time Adopted |
| Sickness and unemployment benefits introduced |
| Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole |
| The Chinese Revolution |
| The refrigerator is invented |
1912
| Parachutes Invented |
| Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link,"
Discovered (Fraud) |
| SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal |
| The Titanic Sinks |
1913
| First Crossword Puzzle |
| Henry Ford Creates Assembly Line |
| First oil-fired battleships launched |
1914
| Archduke Ferdinand Assassinated |
| Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little
Tramp |
| First Traffic Light |
| Panama Canal Officially Opened |
| World War I Begins |
| Battle of the Marne |
1915
| Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon |
| Lusitania Sunk by
German U-Boat |
| Second Battle of Ypres |
1916
| Battle of the Somme |
| Battle of Verdun |
| Easter Rising in Ireland |
1917
| Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy |
| Russian Revolution |
| U.S. Enters World War I |
1918
| Influenza Epidemic |
| Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are
Killed |
| Armistice Day 11th November |
| Women over 30 get the vote in Britain |
1919
| Treaty of Versailles Ends World War I |
1920
| November 2: First Radio broadcast |
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