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| 1900 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya is directed by Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Edward Elgar writes the oratorio Dream of Gerontius, setting Cardinal Newman's poem of the same title | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Lenin and comrades launch in Munich a radical newspaper, Iskra ('the spark') | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov keeps dogs alive almost indefinitely by severely curtailing their bodily functions | |
|  | Five experimental dogs in Pavlov's laboratory
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| 1901 |
| | | Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, after 63 years on the throne | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit | |
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