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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       
1901
 
   
Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi      
1901
 
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Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families       
1901
 
    
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge extends the range of his studies with Human Figure in Motion       
1901
 
    
Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague       
1901
 
    
Thomas Mann's first novel, Buddenbrooks, brings him immediate success       
c. 1901
 
     
A stele is found at Susa, in Iran, giving the text of the Code of Hammurabi        
1901
 
    
Charles Voysey completes a house for himself, The Orchard, at Chorley Wood in Hertfordshire