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| 1900 |
| | | Humbert I, the king of Italy, is assassinated by an Italian-American anarchist, Gaetano Bresci | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, after 63 years on the throne | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Edward VII is already 59 when he succeeds his mother, Victoria, as Britain's monarch | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters has its premiere at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Stanislavsky | |
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| 1903 |
| | | King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II issues a Fundamental Law emphasizing his own autocratic power | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II summarily dismisses Russia's new duma when it has been sitting for only three months | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Transvaal government presents to Edward VII the Cullinan diamond, now part of the British crown jewels | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The king of Portugal, Carlos I, and his heir, Luis Filipe, are shot as they ride in an open carriage in Lisbon | |
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