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1900
 
    
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East       
c. 1900
 
   
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian      
Augustus John, by William Orpen, c.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1901
 
   
Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia      
1901
 
    
Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, after 63 years on the throne       
1901
 
    
Edward VII is already 59 when he succeeds his mother, Victoria, as Britain's monarch