1900–1909.html

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
Categories:	Births - Deaths - Architecture Establishments - Disestablishments

The decade from 1900 through 1909 is sometimes referred to as the 1900s, although this term can equally be used for the years 1900–1999. "The aughts" (aught-aught through aught-nine) was one of the more popular contemporary terms for this decade.

1 Events and trends
2 People
- 2.1 World leaders
- 2.2 Important personalities
3 External links

Events and trends

Technologies

Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft
Mass production of the automobile
Wide popularity of home phonograph
Panama Canal is built by the United States
The Photostat machine begins modern era of document imaging
Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk, NC.

Science

Planck's law of black body radiation
Einstein's theory of special relativity
Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect

Literature and art

See also: List of years in literature#1900s

Pablo Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, considered by some to be the birth of modern art.
Joseph Conrad publishes Heart of Darkness
Thomas Mann publishes Buddenbrooks
Cubism
Fauvism
Joseph Conrad publishes the novella Heart of Darkness in 1902, after the serial release in 1898
Joseph Conrad publishes The Secret Agent in 1907
Jack London publishes The Call of the Wild in 1903
Lucy Maud Montgomery publishes Anne of Green Gables in 1908
Serbian writers use the Belgrade literary style, an Ekavian writing form which set basis for the later standardization of the Serbian language