A major thing that happened the first decade of the 1900s was the assassination of President William McKinley. In 1905, 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. The Ten Rules of War are established in 1907. The next year, the Young Turks movement restores the Ottoman constitution of 1876. The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history spanned the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes expanded to the start of the First World War.
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The Second Boer War - 11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902.
March 6 – In Bremen, an assassination attempt is made on Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
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.
The capital of French Indochina is moved from Saigon (in Cochinchina) to Hanoi (Tonkin).
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.
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."
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.
Russo-Japanese War - 1904-1905.
September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
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.
December 27 – The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premieres in London.
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.
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.
June 19: The first movie theater opens in the United States, the Nickelodeon in Pittsburgh, and is said to have shown "The Baffled Burglar."
August 2 - The Ancient Order of Druids initiate neo-Druidic rituals at Stonehenge in England.
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.
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.
According to NASA reports, 1908 was the coldest recorded year since 1880.
August 8 - Wilbur Wright flies in France for the first time, demonstrating true controlled powered flight in Europe.
February 5: U.S. chemist Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) presents his invention, the first synthetic plastic known as Bakelite, to the American Chemical Society.
March 31 – Construction begins on the RMS Titanic, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.
June 2 – French forces capture Abéché, capital of the Wadai Empire in central Africa.
October 26: Japan's former prime minister Prince Itō Hirobumi is assassinated by a Korean independence activist.
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.
