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1901
 
    
Edward VII is already 59 when he succeeds his mother, Victoria, as Britain's monarch       
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
 
    
Charles Voysey completes a house for himself, The Orchard, at Chorley Wood in Hertfordshire       
1901
 
    
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit       
1901
 
    
Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim       
Rudyard Kipling, by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 1899
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1901
 
   
The British batsman C.B. Fry hits a record six consecutive centuries in first-class cricket      
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