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| 1900 |
| | | In the US presidential election William McKinley wins a second term on a simple platform, promising 'the full dinner pail' | |
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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 |
| | | German physicist Max Planck proposes the revolutionary concept of the quantum theory | |
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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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| 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
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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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