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1901
 
     
The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory"        
1901
 
    
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin       
1901
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow        
1901
 
    
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland       
1901
 
    
Robert Falcon Scott sets off in the Discovery on his first expedition to the Antarctic       
Mitchell HMS Discovery in the ice (detail)
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1901
 
   
Australia passes an Immigration Restriction Act to underpin the White Australia policy      
1901
 
  
The 1901 census reveals that the population of the United Kingdom has almost doubled in 50 years, to 38 million     
1901
 
    
Frank Hornby begins to market in Britain his immensely successful Meccano kits       
1902
 
    
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow       
1902
 
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Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships