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1900–1909

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Events in this period 7

  1. 1903 · North America · Science

    Wright Flyer

    The Wright Flyer made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft on December 17, 1903. Invented and flown by brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, it marked the beginning of the pioneer era of aviation.

  2. 1901 · Oceania · Politics

    Federation of Australia

    The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing Australian colonies—New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia—united to form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia. The colonies of Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this process, but they decided not to join the federation.

  3. 1904 – 1905 · China · War

    Russo-Japanese War

    The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on the Liaodong Peninsula and near Mukden in Southern Manchuria, with naval battles taking place in the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.

  4. 1904 – 1908 · Africa · War

    Herero and Nama genocide

    The Herero and Nama genocide, or the Namibian genocide, was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. Around 40,000 to 80,000 Hereros and 10,000 Nama died.

  5. 1905 · Japan · War

    Battle of Tsushima

    The Battle of Tsushima was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait. A devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy, the battle was the only decisive engagement ever fought between modern steel battleship fleets and the first in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role. The battle was described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar. The battle is known in Japan as the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan.

  6. 1905 · Korea · Politics

    Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905

    The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, also known as the Eulsa Treaty (Korean: 을사조약), was made between delegates of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire in 1905. Negotiations were concluded on November 17, 1905. The treaty deprived Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty and made Korea a protectorate of Imperial Japan. It resulted from Imperial Japan's victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.

  7. 1905 – 1907 · Europe · Politics

    Russian Revolution of 1905

    The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first. The revolution saw mass political and social unrest, including worker strikes, peasant revolts, and military mutinies directed against Tsar Nicholas II and the autocracy, who were compelled to establish the State Duma legislative assembly and grant certain rights to the population, though both were later undermined.

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