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| 1900 |
| | | Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising | |
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| c. 1901 |
| | | A stele is found at Susa, in Iran, giving the text of the Code of Hammurabi | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The three-year Philippine-American War is brought to an end, and the Philippines become a US colony | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A surprise Japanese attack on Russian warships in Port Arthur launches the Russo-Japanese War for influence in the Far East | |
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| 1904 |
| | | British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Treaty of Portsmouth gives Japan control of Port Arthur and much of the Liaotung Peninsula | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt | |
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