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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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| c. 1900 |
| | | The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian | |
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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
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1901 |
| | | Daimler cars launch a new brand, the Mercedes 35 hp, named after the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia | |
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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 |
| | | Edward VII is already 59 when he succeeds his mother, Victoria, as Britain's monarch | |
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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 |
| | | Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families | |
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