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Events
Contemporary cartoon about the Boxer Rebellion
- 1900 : The German Civil Code (BGB) comes into force in the German Empire .
- 1900: King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an assassination attempt by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza , followed by Victor Emanuel III. on the throne.
- 1900: Boxer Rebellion in China .
- 1901: The anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated US President William McKinley at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo , who died eight days later from the gunshot wounds. On this day Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the new President.
- 1901 : The once independent colonies - New South Wales , Queensland , South Australia , Tasmania , Victoria and Western Australia - formed the Commonwealth of Australia . Melbourne became the first capital of Australia .
- 1902: The first line of the Berlin subway between Warschauer Brücke and Nollendorfplatz is opened. It is the first underground line in Germany.
- 1902: With the assumption of office of Tomás Estrada Palma, elected unopposed on December 31st under pressure from the USA, Cuba gains formal independence from the USA . The country's sovereignty was restricted by the Platt Amendment until 1934 .
- 1903: In Kishinew / Russia there are three days of mass pogroms by Russian Christians against Jews in which the police do not intervene. After international protests, the Russian Interior Ministry declares the persecution of the Jews with their socialist uprising against Tsar Nicholas II. Journalists suspect more of a scapegoat policy in view of the economic misery, widespread poverty and growing labor unrest.
- 1903: The Serbian King Alexander I and his wife Draga are murdered by Serbian officers in the royal palace. Peter I becomes the new King of Serbia.
- 1903: Six women around Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst found the Women's Social and Political Union in Manchester , a women's suffrage association . They are the first to be nicknamed suffragettes .
- 1903: The USA leases Guantánamo Bay from Cuba as a naval base for 99 years . The annual lease is $ 2000.
- 1903/1904: British Tibet campaign .
- 1904 / 1905 : With a surprise Japanese attack on Port Arthur of the Russo-Japanese War begins Russo-Japanese War and ended after a series of loss-making battles in autumn 1905 with the defeat of the Russian side.
- 1904-1908: In German South West Africa it comes to the uprising of the Herero and Nama . In the course of the colonial war, the German General von Trotha issued his notorious order to shoot "Call to the Herero people" .
- 1904: Formation of the Entente cordiale between Great Britain and France. In 1907, the United Kingdom rejected proposals to build a tunnel under the English Channel because it feared a French invasion despite the Entente cordiale .
- 1904: The Child Protection Act comes into force in Germany . It prohibits the work of children under the age of 12 in all commercial establishments. In 1906, however, children under 10 years of age are allowed to work in family businesses.
- 1904: Presidential election in the United States. 1904 : Re-election of Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States (and sworn in 1905). Shortly thereafter, with his speech to Congress with the Roosevelt Corollary , his addition to the Monroe Doctrine , he laid the foundation for a more expansionist foreign policy in the United States .
- 1905: St. Petersburg's Bloody Sunday leads to the Russian Revolution in 1905 and the convening of the first Duma .
- 1905 to 1906 : First Morocco crisis .
- 1906 : Persian Revolution .
- 1906: The earthquake of 1906 and the fire that followed razed the city of San Francisco to the ground.
- 1906: Wilhelm Voigt occupies the town hall of Köpenick .
- 1906: Maximilian Harden triggers the Eulenburg affair with a newspaper article in which he suggestively accuses several people around the emperor of homosexuality .
- 1906: In France , the law on the separation of church and state , passed on December 8, 1905, comes into force.
- 1907 : General male suffrage for the first time in the Reichsrat election in Austria-Hungary .
- 1907: In the Hottentot election for the 12th German Reichstag, the SPD loses almost half of its mandates.
- 1907: The law on the copyright to works of the fine arts and photography is passed in the German Empire. Its importance today lies mainly in its regulations on the right to one's own image .
- 1907: 3,000 British suffragettes demonstrate in London for the introduction of the right to vote for women , led by Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Millicent Garrett Fawcett .
- 1907: Peasant uprising in Romania 1907 .
- 1907: Change of throne in Sweden . On Oscar II. Follows his son Gustav V.
- 1907: The Entente cordiale is expanded by Russia to the Triple Entente .
- 1907: The Treaty of Saint Petersburg vote Great Britain and Russia their spheres of influence in Central Asia from. Persia is divided into three zones. Afghanistan becomes the British zone of influence. Tibet is declared a neutral zone in the Anglo-Russian Convention (1907) . China's claims are recognized.
- 1908 : Young Turkish Revolution .
- 1908: Bosnian annexation crisis : Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina , which leads to a European crisis.
- 1908: The Tunguska event occurs in Siberia .
- 1908: The two-year Puyi is in Beijing for Chinese emperors crowned.
- 1908: The Portuguese King Charles I and his son, Crown Prince Ludwig Philipp , are shot in Lisbon . Ludwig Philip's younger brother Manuel II becomes the new king .
- 1908: Tweedmouth Affair .
- 1908: An interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II triggers the Daily Telegraph affair .
- 1909: Foundation of Tel Aviv (laying of the foundation stone on April 11th ), the first modern Jewish city on the territory of the later State of Israel .
- 1909: The Young Turks overthrow the Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdulhamid II. , Who in office by his brother Mehmed V will be replaced.
- 1909: William Howard Taft is inducted into office as the 27th US President. He takes over from Theodore Roosevelt .
Cultural history
Electrification of the household: kettle designed by Peter Behrens for AEG, 1909
science and technology
- 1900: At the suggestion of the Austrian businessman and consul general Emil Jellinek, Wilhelm Maybach constructs the Mercedes-Simplex , a racing car with a 35 hp four-cylinder engine and two carburetors. The vehicle, equipped with Maybach's inventions, the honeycomb cooler and the gear transmission, represented the car of the future for the time. Jellinek named the model after his daughter Mercédès .
- 1900: Planck's law of radiation from Max Planck .
- 1900: The bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is described for the first time by the German botanist Walter Migula . It is also clinically important today as it is resistant to antibiotics .
- 1900: By decree, the Grand Duchy of Baden became the first German state to have women unrestrictedly admitted to university .
- 1900: Reginald Fessenden carries out the first wireless voice transmission.
- 1901: Guglielmo Marconi achieved the first transatlantic radio reception of a signal (the letter S as Morse code ) from Poldhu on The Lizard peninsula in Cornwall on Signal Hill near St. John's in Newfoundland .
- 1901: Sigmund Freud publishes his work on the psychopathology of everyday life , to which the phrase Freudian slip of the tongue can be traced back.
- 1901: British Governor Henry Hamilton Johnston presents scientists with skull bones and okapi fur . The animal, newly discovered in Central Africa, is considered a scientific sensation and was previously only known to the pygmies .
- 1902: The first adult education center in the German Reich is built in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin .
- 1902: Patenting of the speedometer by Otto Schulze at the German Patent Office
- 1902: Willis Haviland Carrier develops the first modern air conditioning system .
- 1902: With Blickensderfer Electric , the first electric typewriter appears, a design by the native German George Blickensderfer . However, this could not establish itself on the market, although the technology was decades ahead of the competition.
- 1903: In Frankfurt is Association of German Architects (BDA) was founded.
- 1903: The Wright brothers take off with the Wright Flyer for the first controlled powered flight.
- 1903: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , the father of modern space theory, published in the Russian science magazine Scientific Rundschau under the title: space exploration by reaction apparatuses for the first time the theoretical effects of a rocket drive as rocket equation the basis of today's space technology .
- 1903: Joseph John Thomson develops the Thomson model of the atom ( raisin cake model ) named after him .
- 1904: Argentina receives a building on Laurie Island that was built the previous year by a British Antarctic expedition . The country set up the Orcadas station , which has since been permanently inhabited , the first of the research stations in Antarctica .
- 1904: First color photograph on the front page of the Daily Illustrated Mirror newspaper .
- 1904: A Dutch peat cutter discovered two bog bodies, the men of Weerdinge , from the time around the birth of Christ in the Bourtanger Moor .
- 1904: The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière develop the autochrome process in Lyon .
- 1904: Henri Poincaré formulates the Poincaré conjecture .
- 1905: Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discovered the syphilis pathogen Spirochaeta pallida during research at the Charité Clinic in Berlin .
- 1905: Henry Fairfield Osborn describes and names the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex .
- 1905: Albert Einstein publishes four important works: an explanation of the photoelectric effect ( submitted March 17th ), two fundamental articles on special relativity and on Brownian molecular motion , which is why 1905 is also called Einstein's annus mirabilis .
- 1905: Egon Schweidler discovers the first non- causal physical process and explains the statistical nature of radioactivity .
- 1905: On the Balearic island of Mallorca is limestone cave system Coves dels Hams discovered.
- 1905: The 1st World Esperanto Congress begins in Boulogne-sur-Mer ( France ) .
- 1906: The U 1, the first German submarine, is launched in the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel .
- 1906: The Northwest Passage was passed. Roald Amundsen arrives with his crew of six in Nome ( Alaska ) after a three-year research voyage on the ship Gjøa .
- 1906: At the International Radio Conference in Berlin , the SOS is declared an international emergency signal in place of the previous CQD .
- 1906: First radio broadcast by the Canadian Reginald Fessenden .
- 1906: The doctor Alois Alzheimer first diagnosed at the patient Auguste D., the Alzheimer's disease .
- 1906: The British Meteorological Service launches a version of a scale for classifying winds according to their speed with 13 levels (including 0), known as the Beaufort scale .
- 1907: In France, color photos by the brothers Louis Jean and Auguste Lumière first come to the public.
- 1907: The French Paul Cornu succeeds in the world's first flight of a helicopter with his "flying bicycle" at a height of 30 cm above the ground and a flight time of 20 seconds.
- 1908: Prince Heinrich of Prussia , the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II , receives a German patent for his invented hand-operated windscreen wiper for the front car windows . However, his invention is not widely used.
- 1908: Chemistry professor Fritz Haber applies for a patent for his developed process for the synthetic preparation of ammonia from the elements , which he leaves to BASF for commercial use shortly thereafter . After the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process, it leads to the production of artificial fertilizers .
- 1908: The American inventor Frank W. Wood applies for patent protection for an electric segment display .
- 1908: The mathematician Hermann Minkowski gives a sensational lecture on space and time in Cologne . The space-time wins contours .
- 1908: The limestone figure Venus von Willendorf is excavated in Willendorf (Lower Austria) during the construction of the Danube Bank Railway. The statuette is dated to around 25,000 BC. Dated to the Upper Paleolithic .
- 1909: The American Robert Edwin Peary claims to be the first person to reach the North Pole, statements that are still being questioned today.
- 1909: The American paleontologist Charles Walcott discovers fossils in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada . This fossil deposit provides insights into the Cambrian period about 505 million years ago.
- 1909: Andrija Mohorovičić discovers that the earth's mantle is more dense than the earth's crust . The boundary between the two is named after him the Mohorovičić discontinuity .
- 1909: Ernest Rutherford characterizes alpha , beta and gamma radiation .
- 1909: The German Paul Ehrlich uses chemotherapy for the first time.
- 1909: The Frenchman Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel with his monoplane Blériot XI as the first person in an airplane .
- 1909: After the first flight on August 17th, Hans Grade wins the Lanz Prize of the Skies with his Libelle monoplane , the first truly airworthy German motorized aircraft .
- 1909: As part of the Nimrod expedition led by Ernest Shackleton , the pole was first reached by Edgeworth David , Douglas Mawson and Alistair Mackay on January 16, 1909 (see March to the Antarctic Magnetic Pole )
Sports
- Foundation of international sports associations
Union Cycliste Internationale , 1900.
- II. Summer Olympics in Paris 1900; May 14, 1900 to October 28, 1900.
- III. 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis ; July 1, 1904 to November 23, 1904.
- IV. Summer Olympics in London 1908; April 27, 1908 to October 31, 1908.
- Foundation of several important sports and football clubs. Including Lazio Rome , FC Bayern Munich , Ajax Amsterdam , Borussia Mönchengladbach , CA River Plate , Real Madrid , Atlético Madrid , FC Carl Zeiss Jena , Westfalia Schalke (later name: FC Schalke 04 ), Bayer 04 Leverkusen , Botafogo FR , IFK Göteborg , CA Independiente , FC Chelsea , Galatasaray Istanbul , FC Sevilla , Sporting Lisbon , Fenerbahçe Istanbul , Panathinaikos Athens , Inter Milan , RSC Anderlecht , Feyenoord Rotterdam , SC Internacional and Borussia Dortmund . The football club Manchester United was renamed after some businessmen around the new club president John Henry Davies averted the bankruptcy of the existing Newton Heath F. C. with a cash injection .
- 1900: In Leipzig , the German Football Association was founded.
- 1900: The 20-year-old American tennis player Dwight Filley Davis donates the Davis Cup named after him . The USA become the first Davis Cup winners with a 3-0 win over Great Britain.
- 1900: The cycling federations of Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and the USA found the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in Paris .
- 1900: In Kassel is German Rugby Federation was founded.
- On July 1, 1903 at 3:16 pm, the first Tour de France began at the former "Auberge Reveil-Matin" in Montgeron near Paris . It was the first real stage race in the history of cycling .
- 1902: The German Tennis Association is founded in Berlin .
- 1902: The first official international match between two non-British national teams and also the first international match outside of Europe: Uruguay and Argentina met in Montevideo . The special situation in South America with few opponents resulted in the fact that this is the most frequent encounter at the country level. In the same year, the first official international match of two non-British European national teams followed: The game between an Austrian and a Hungarian team in Vienna ended 5-0, Jan Studnicka contributed three goals - the encounter between an Austrian and a Swiss selection from 8 April 1901 is considered unofficial.
- 1903: The first final of the German football championship takes place on the parade pasture in Altona . The VfB Leipzig defeated the DFC Prag with 7: 2 and wins the Victoria Cup
- 1903: Start of the first modern baseball - World Series .
- 1904: The world football association FIFA is founded in Paris by the football associations of the following countries: Belgium, Denmark , France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain.
- 1904: The world motorcycle association, the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme , is founded in Paris .
- 1905: The international air sports association Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ) is founded in Paris.
- 1905: The founding of the German Ski Association is decided in Munich.
- 1905: The first Dipsea Race is held in Mill Valley , California .
- 1906: The 1906 Grand Prix season marked the beginning of the history of the Grand Prix with the first French Grand Prix .
- 1907: In Beijing five cars start the longest automobile race of all time, the drive from Beijing to Paris . The 12,000 km route leads through the Gobi desert, past Lake Baikal, through Siberia, across the Urals and via Moscow to Paris. The Italian team around Prince Scipione Borghese is celebrated as the winner. The second vehicle , driven by the Dutchman Charles Goddard , arrives on August 30th, the others fail to reach their destination.
- 1908: First international match for the German national soccer team .
- 1908: Foundation of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
- 1908: The international swimming federation Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) is founded in London by eight national associations .
- 1909: The first Giro d'Italia starts in Milan , which Luigi Ganna later wins after eight stages .
- 1909: The first Six Days of cycling in Europe takes place in the Berlin exhibition halls at the zoo instead.
- 1909: Establishment of the sports association OSRAM e. V. in Berlin, is the first company sports group in Germany.
- 1909: Nine spectators are killed and over 40 people are seriously injured in the race track disaster in Berlin caused by the fall of the pacemaker Werner Krüger on the Berlin “Botanischer Garten” cycle track . This accident is the worst that has ever happened in cycling in Germany .
- 1909: The Stade de Paris opens in the French capital .
- 1909: The world's first open-air art ice rink opens in Austria as the Engelmann ice rink in the Hernals district of Vienna . The Hockey in Vienna thus receives a strong upswing. The system was designed by the active engineer Eduard Engelmann junior . It will later become the venue of EK Engelmann Vienna .
- 1909: Establishment of the German Hockey Association (DHB).
- 1909: First national cup , at that time still crown prince cup : the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs wins against the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs with 3: 1.
- Establishment of national sports associations
German Football Association, 1900.
German Rugby Association, 1900.
German Tennis Federation, 1902.
German Ski Association, 1905.
German Hockey Association, 1909.
Visual arts
- The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso painted the first pictures of the Blue Period in 1901 .
- A style of painting emerged from a movement within the French avant-garde : Fauvism .
- 1905: Foundation of the artist association Die Brücke , from which the development of Expressionism originated. A year later, the expressionist artists' association held its first exhibition in Dresden. It is not well received by the domestic audience.
- In the visual arts created from about 1907 of Cubism .
- 1907: Gustav Klimt portrayed the entrepreneurs wife Adele Bloch-Bauer in the work Adele Bloch-Bauer I .
- 1908: The Austrian architect Adolf Loos publishes his essay Ornament und Verbrechen , in which a clear demand for the end of Art Nouveau is expressed.
- 1908: Róbert Berény , Dezső Czigány , Béla Czóbel , Károly Kernstok , Ödön Márffy , Dezső Orbán , Bertalan Pór and Lajos Tihanyi found the Hungarian avant-garde artist group Nyolcak ( The Eight ).
- 1909: Founding of the New Munich Artists' Association .
literature
- 1900: The first bound copies of the children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( The Wizard of Oz ) by L. Frank Baum with illustrations by William Wallace Denslow appear.
- 1900: The novel Im Schlaraffenland. A novel among fine people by Heinrich Mann appears. It marks the beginning of a series of novels that deal critically with Wilhelminism .
- Thomas Mann's social novel Buddenbrooks was published in two volumes by S. Fischer Verlag in 1901 .
- 1901: The Russian writer Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy is expelled from the Russian Orthodox Church because of blasphemous statements in his novel Resurrection . There are crowds and demonstrations for Tolstoy in Moscow and Saint Petersburg .
- 1903: The Prix Goncourt , France's most important literary prize , is awarded for the first time.
- 1904: Hermann Hesse's first novel, Peter Camenzind, appears in Berlin.
- 1904: The partly autobiographical adventure novel The Sea Wolf ( The Sea Wolf ), in New York laid, is Jack London's greatest success.
- 1905: The House of Mirth ( Haus Bellomont ) by Edith Wharton is published. In 2001 the book was named one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the American Modern Library .
- 1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel Anne of Green Gables appears. Due to the great success of the children's book, the Canadian will soon be writing several sequels.
- 1908: Caspar Hauser or The Sluggishness of the Heart by Jakob Wassermann appears in Berlin.
- 1909: The first part of the serial novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ( The Phantom of the Opera ) by the French journalist and writer Gaston Leroux is published in the newspaper Le Gaulois . The last part appears on January 8, 1910.
- 1909: The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes his futuristic manifesto in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro , thereby founding futurism .
theatre
Madama Butterfly , illustration by Adolfo Hohenstein
- 1904: The premiere of the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan is a failure and the whistle blows.
- 1905: The theater magazine Die Schaubühne (later Die Weltbühne ), founded by Siegfried Jacobsohn , appears for the first time.
- 1905: The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar , an operetta in three acts with a libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein after Henri Meilhacs comedy L'attaché d'ambassade is, with Mizzi Günther and Louis Treumann in the leading roles at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna premiered. The piece, which is considered to be the main representative of the so-called " Silver Operetta Era ", will be Lehár's most successful and best-known operetta.
- 1907: First performance of the ballet The Dying Swan by Michel Fokine in Saint Petersburg with Anna Pawlowa as prima ballerina .
music
- 1903: AFMA (Institute for Musical Performance Rights) is established, a predecessor organization of GEMA .
- 1904: The world premiere of Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony marks the premiere for new musical techniques ( polyphony , polyrhythm , thematic layering ).
Movie
- 1901: The film The Story of a Crime by Ferdinand Zecca is considered the first crime film .
- 1902: The French film pioneer Georges Méliès paves the way for the science fiction film genre with his film The Journey to the Moon .
- Edwin S. Porter is shooting the first western in film history : The Great Train Robbery is twelve minutes long. The world premiere will take place on December 1st .
- 1907: The Korsør Biograf Teater opens in the Danish town of Korsør . It is now the world's oldest cinema that is still in use .
- 1907: Sidney Olcott 's film adaptation of Ben Hur triggers the first plagiarism lawsuit in film history due to unresolved copyrights on Lewis Wallace's bestseller .
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- 1908: The first well-known animated film Fantasmagorie , created by Émile Cohl , premieres at the Théatre du Gymnase in Paris.
- 1908: The silent film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise premieres. It is regarded as a milestone in film history because it becomes clear that a film makes new demands on staging and acting and because it is the first film to feature original music.
- 1908: Monumental film The Last Days of Pompeii by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio .
- 1909: The Lonely Villa of David W. Griffith leads the parallel montage one.
economy
- 1900: Mail delivery in Germany is entrusted to the Reichspost as a monopoly , private transport of local mail is prohibited.
- 1901: A huge oil fountain shoots up when drilling on Spindletop Hill near Beaumont in Texas , triples US oil production overnight and creates the Texan oil companies (including Texaco ).
- 1902: The German copyright law comes into force.
- 1902: August Thyssen and Hugo Stinnes acquire the majority in RWE through a consortium led by them with the participation of Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft .
- 1903: The American automobile companies Buick Motor Company and Ford Motor Company are founded.
- 1903: Harley-Davidson is founded in 1903 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
- 1903: The company Kraft or Kraft Foods is founded in Chicago by James Lewis Kraft.
- 1903: The Werther 'sche Zuckerwarenfabrik is from August Storck founded.
- 1903: Emil Rathenau founds the Allgemeine Electricitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ) in Berlin .
- 1904: The Bayer cross is registered as a German trademark with the number 65.777.
- 1904: Druggist Max Riese registers the Penaten cream he invented with the Reich Patent Office in Berlin.
- 1904: The captain Peter Mærsk Møller and his son Arnold Peter Møller found a steamship company in Svendborg , A / S Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg , which over time will develop into the largest Danish company AP Møller-Mærsk and a global player in the logistics sector .
- 1904: Henry Royce and Charles Rolls meet in a hotel in Manchester to agree to joint automobile sales with a handshake. The automaker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars continues to develop.
- 1905: The miners' strike of 1905 was the second major strike by miners in the Ruhr mining industry .
- 1905: The largest rough diamond to date is found in the Premier mine near Pretoria . It weighs 3,106 carats and is named Cullinan, the name of the mine owner.
- 1905: The showman Carl Krone names his menagerie as Circus Charles , which later becomes the Circus Krone .
- 1906: Vincenzo Lancia and his friend Claudio Fogolin found the car manufacturer Lancia in Turin .
- 1907: Share sales occur on the New York Stock Exchange , which are reflected in the Dow Jones Index with a minus of 8.29 percent. The uncertainty among investors led to the panic of 1907 in the autumn .
- 1907: The luxury department store Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) opens in Berlin-Schöneberg . In the same year the Hotel Adlon and the Strandbad Wannsee open in Berlin .
- 1907: The Shell company results from a merger of NV Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company), The Hague, and The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company plc, London.
- 1907: Henkel launches Persil detergent in Germany.
- 1908: The Maggi company brings the stock cube onto the market.
- 1908: Toblerone is invented.
- 1908: The Kaffee Hag brand is entered in the German trademark register.
- 1909: The history of the modern oil industry in the Middle East begins with the establishment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company .
- 1909: Eugène Schueller founded the Société Française de teinture inoffensives pour cheveux from which the cosmetics - Group L'Oréal created.
- 1909: set up with government support Alfred Colsman , Hugo Eckener , Franz Adickes , Wilhelm Marx and others, the first airline in the world: The German Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft ( DELAG ) operates from the Zeppelin airship built transport airships .
- 1909: The Hansabund is founded in Berlin to represent the interests of trade, commerce and industry.
society
- World expos
Panoramic view of the exhibition space in Paris, 1900.
Official program of the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904.
Official poster of the world exhibition in Liège, 1905.
Exhibition poster for the world exhibition in Milan, 1906.
- World exhibitions in Paris , St. Louis , Liège and Milan . Many technical achievements that will shape the 20th century will be presented at the Paris World's Fair , including the diesel engine , the sound film and the escalator . The Paris Metro will also be opened for the exhibition. Numerous new foods are said to have been invented during the St. Louis World's Fair. It seems certain that ice cream waffles were presented to the public here for the first time. Hamburgers , iced tea , cotton candy and peanut butter were presented to the general public during the exhibition , making them popular. Dr Pepper began selling its caffeinated, carbonated soft drink here nationwide. As a novelty at the world exhibition in Liège a. a. a cinematograph made in France and a show on the meaning of fingerprints in criminology .
- 1900: In the state schools of Prussia a new subject on the subject of " Sexual Enlightenment " is introduced.
- 1901: The Nobel Prizes are awarded for the first time in Stockholm and Oslo .
- 1901: The world's first road (length: 200 km) is inaugurated in Madagascar .
- 1901: Ernst von Wolhaben founded the Überbrettl, the first German cabaret in Berlin
- 1901: The new museum building , the first building of today's Pergamon Museum , opens in Berlin.
- 1902: The Reichstag member Otto Antrick gives the longest speech in a German parliament to date, lasting a total of 8 hours. He is delaying the vote on the amendment of a customs tariff law.
- 1903: The ADAC is founded.
- 1903: The publisher Gerhard Lang has the idea for the first preliminary form of an advent calendar . Richard Ernst Kepler implemented this in the drawing .
- 1903: The Dresden Police Department introduces dactyloscopy to investigate crimes in Germany . In the same year, Henriette Arendt is the first female police officer in Germany to be employed by the Stuttgart City Police Department .
- 1904: The subway is officially opened in New York after four years of construction .
- 1904: Establishment of the coastal radio station Elbe-Weser Radio .
- 1904: New York Times Square is first used to celebrate the New Year 1905.
- 1905: The Little Nemo comic series begins in the New York Herald newspaper , invented and drawn by Winsor McCay .
- 1906: The American architect Stanford White is shot in a fit of jealousy by the millionaire Harry Thaw on the roof of the second Madison Square Gardens in New York City.
- 1907: Maria Montessori , creator of Montessori education , opens her first children's home, the Casa dei Bambini , in the Roman working-class district of San Lorenzo .
- 1907: The Irish Crown Jewels kept in Dublin Castle are stolen .
- 1907/1908: Josef Friedrich Schmidt developed on the Indian game Pachisi based social game not Ludo .
- 1908: First arrest of a criminal by photo telegraph : a French jewel thief is arrested in England after the Daily Mirror printed a mug shot .
- 1908: The French sculptor Thérèse Peltier is the first woman to fly in an airplane in Turin .
- 1909: The Queensboro Bridge between Queens and Manhattan opens.
- 1909: The passenger ship Republic gets into distress after a collision in the fog with another ship and sends the first distant telegraphic distress call .
- 1909: The world's first youth hostel opens in Altena .
- 1909: Before the district court Trier is murder Friedrich Ferdinand Mattonet negotiated.
Personalities
- Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
- Edward VII , British King
- Kaiser Wilhelm II , German Emperor
- Bernhard von Bülow , German Chancellor
- Meiji , emperor in Japan
- Cixi , Dowager Empress of China
- Guangxu , Emperor of China
- Émile Loubet , President in France
- Carl Barks , comic book writer and illustrator
- HP Lovecraft , writer
- Enrico Caruso , opera singer
- Mata Hari , dancer
- Friedrich Alfred Krupp , industrialist and politician
- Wilhelm Liebknecht , revolutionary
- William McKinley , politician and 25th President of the United States
- Max Reinhardt , theater and film director, artistic director, theater producer and theater founder
- Cecil Rhodes , entrepreneur and politician
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