Lenin argues for early action to promote revolution. French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. Go to steam engine in A Dictionary of Physics 6 ed. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves. The play Cathleen ni Houlihan , by W. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism.
Cuba becomes independent after three years of US military rule, with certain restrictions imposed by the Platt Amendment of Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland.
After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense. Lord Salisbury resigns as British prime minister and is succeeded by his nephew, A. Go to Maillol, Aristide 8 Dec. Go to dixieland in The Oxford Companion to Music 1 rev ed. Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form.
Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society. Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove. The tenor Enrico Caruso cuts his first phonograph records in Milan, beginning an immensely successful recording career. Go to Caruso, Enrico 25 Feb. William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France. Go to internal-combustion engine in A Dictionary of Physics 6 ed.
Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom have a huge success with their presidential 'Teddy's Bear'. Go to teddy bear in A New Dictionary of Eponyms 1 ed. The first Aswan dam, at this time the world's largest, is completed on the Nile. Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness , a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo.
The English painter G. Watts is made a founding member of the Order of Merit. Cuba is forced to accept a permanent US military presence in Guantanamo Bay. Lenin's supporters become known as the Bolsheviks 'majority' as opposed to the Mensheviks 'minority' after a split at the party's Second Congress.
Go to radiotherapy in A Dictionary of Physics 6 ed. Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon.
Go to Stein, Gertrude 3 Feb. Go to Pankhurst, Emmeline b. Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands , a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain. King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers. In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex. Henry James publishes The Ambassadors , the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession.
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy identify the phenomenon of radioactive half-life. Go to half-life in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Edwin S. Go to cinema in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X.
British philosopher G. Moore publishes Principia Ethica , an attempt to apply logic to ethics. Go to Moore, G. A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic. William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year. US author W.
Go to Du Bois, W. Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle. The Pit , the second volume of an uncompleted trilogy by US novelist Frank Norris, is published posthumously.
The first World Series is played between nine leading baseball teams from the National League and the American League. Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia. The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal.
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard. Orville Wright travels 40 yards in the first successful powered flight, at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt. Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard , is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death. Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station.
Charles Stewart Rolls, a keen driver, meets electrical engineer Henry Royce in a historic encounter in Manchester. John Christian Watson becomes Australia's first Labor prime minister, leading a minority government that survives for only four months. Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo , about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver. France and Britain sign an Entente Cordiale, resolving several colonial disputes and laying the foundation for a new alliance.
Go to entente cordiale in A Dictionary of World History 2 ed. The German general Lothar von Trotha drives Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert. Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl. Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution.
British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa. Theodore Roosevelt wins the US presidential election in his own right. US inventor King C.
Gillette receives a patent for a disposable safety razor. Go to safety razor noun in Oxford Dictionary of English 3 ed. Under the pseudonym Saki, H. Munro publishes Reginald , his first volume of short stories.
Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes the first of a great many recordings. Gwen John makes her home in Paris, where she becomes Rodin's model and mistress. Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday. Industrial Workers of the World with its members later known as Wobblies is founded in Chicago as a radical union initiative.
Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect as a flow of discreet particles quanta of electromagnetic radiation. Go to photoelectric effect in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. More than , Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only against. English engineer Herbert Austin sets up a factory to manufacture cars at Longbridge, south of Birmingham. Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain.
German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis. Go to syphilis in A Dictionary of Public Health 1 ed. Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait.
The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan. In his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein reconciles the apparent clash between relativity and electromagnetic theory. Go to special theory of relativity in A Dictionary of Astronomy 2 rev ed.
French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children. Go to mental age n. Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose. Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation, completing the 'prairie provinces'. Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland.
Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth. The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the ton vessel Venoga , is launched on Lake Geneva. A complaint about maggoty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration.
English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream.
The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area. Go to Tirpitz, Alfred von b. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul , a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant.
The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising. Hitler moves to Vienna, hoping to be a painter, but is twice rejected as a student by the Academy of Fine Arts. Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. Britain's Automobile Association is founded, with patrol-men on bicycles to assist drivers. Claude Debussy completes the three symphonic sketches forming La Mer.
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves "wild beasts" by a critic. The first soviet "council" of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history. Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature. Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later.
Gustav Mahler's cycle of five songs, Kindertotenlieder , is its first performance in Vienna. The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra. Conservative prime minister Balfour resigns and Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms an interim Liberal government in Britain. Richard Strauss's Salome , based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman leads the Liberals to a massive election victory in the UK on a promised programme of reform. Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster. Britain launches HMS Dreadnought , the first of a massive new class of battleship. Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle , a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry. More than French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais.
Go to mine safety in A Dictionary of Public Health 1 ed. English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation. An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco. The Grain Growers' Grain Company is established, soon becoming an important element in Canada's grain market. Frederick Soddy observes his first examples of chemically identical elements with differing atomic weights, to which he later gives the name isotopes.
Go to isotope in A Dictionary of Astronomy 2 rev ed. Fire destroys much of San Francisco following the most violent earthquake in the city's history. Go to San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The Liberals win a majority in election for Russia's new duma and press ahead with proposals for land reform. Go to Stolypin, Piotr Arkadievich b. Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt.
Go to Sinai in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Go to Nicholas II b. In Charles Ives' composition The Unanswered Question the trumpet repeatedly asks 'the perennial question of existence'.
German immunologist August von Wasserman develops a diagnostic test to reveal the presence of the syphilis spirochaete in the blood. The Naturalization Act provides definitive requirements for naturalization as a US citizen. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children , the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family.
The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world 20 km , is opened between Switzerland and Italy. Go to railway in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought , Germany increases the production of battleships. The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a mile course. Go to motor racing in World Encyclopedia 1 ed.
Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein prefigures cubism in its mask-like treatment of her face. Go to Pure Food and Drug Act. Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated in the army after the French supreme court overturns his conviction for treason.
Belgian physiologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou identify Bacillus pertussis , the bacterium causing whooping cough. Tsar Nicholas II summarily dismisses Russia's new duma when it has been sitting for only three months.
Stuart Blackton, introduces the concept of the animated cartoon. Go to animation in A Dictionary of Media and Communication 1 ed. The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania. A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation. Mahatma Gandhi, confronted by racial discrimination in South Africa, launches a programme of passive resistance satyagraha. Prohibitionist Carrie Nation. Get history and national park souvenir t-shirts, mugs, stickers, posters, and other gifts from the official gear of America's Best History, now available on Zazzle, Cafepress, Amazon, and Redbubble.
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If you like us, share this page on Twitter, Facebook, or any of your other favorite social media sites. Home Sites Timeline Souvenirs Advertise. Timeline - The s The nation moves forward with an industrial purpose, with flight, with assembly lines proving a revolution of commerce. More s To the s. To the s. Back to Index. Unlike his unpopular father who created hardships for his people, his son, the new leader, planned to pay the military more and to reduce taxes.
Safety Razor , King C. It was to large for a normal home but in after it was used at Westminster Abbey for King Edward VII coronation it gained in popularity and over the years became smaller and more efficient to what we have today. Before this time, other companies dealing with automobile concerns had existed. However, none of them seemed to last and to this date AAA is one of the largest automobile organizations in the world. The U. Marines had landed there in , and it had been recognized for its proximity to the Winward Passage and to Panama.
He was the brother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. The plane weighed pounds and was powered by a 12 horsepower gasoline engine. The craft is referred to as an airship and Orville and Wright were looking for buyers for their machine which was capable of speeds up to 10 mph.
The theater had only been open for just over a month. This is still the worst single-building fire in U. Harold Smith introduce the world to Crayola Crayons for school kids. The first boxes consisted of 8 different colors and the boxes were the same trademark color of yellow and green they are today. The Entente Cordiale , The Anglo-French agreement whereby they agreed to an ongoing friendly diplomacy, the settling of earlier differences, and to cooperate against Germany's increasingly prominent role in European affairs.
It was not an alliance, but an agreement for international cooperation. Edward VII's favoring of France was said to have given it some support.
It had heralded the arrival of a new kind of international polity. Louis, Missouri in the United States. The Nickelodeon , The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts.
It was to be important in the development of Russian industry, military control of its provinces, and external Imperial influence. It had been built from , from both its eastern and western termini, and required a Chinese agreement as to its use of its Manchurian territories.
The Russo-Japanese War of had meant that a more northerly route would have to be used. Illiteracy in the US , In , illiteracy in the U.
Statistics showed that 6,, persons were illiterate in America. This is due to the superior schools in the towns and the more general attendance of children. Underground Fire France , An underground fire sparks a massive explosion that spreads through a series of mines killing over men in Courrieres, France. Mount Vesuvius Erupted , Vesuvius erupted on April 4th , , and its southern slope vented to about 1, meters. Its lava flow had stopped by the 5th, when a new effusion started on the Casa Fiorenza.
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