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1900
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome       
1900
 
   
Isadora Duncan dances professionally for the first time in Europe in London's Lyceum Theatre      
Isadora Duncan, photograph, c.1915
Royal Collection

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1900
 
    
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music hall in Westminster       
Sheet music cover for Harry Lauder, c.1905


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1900
 
     
David Belasco's play Madame Butterfly has its premiere in New York, and is subsequently seen in London by Giacomo Puccini        
1900
 
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The Conservatives win an increased majority during the Boer War, in what becomes known as the 'khaki election'      
1900
 
    
Enrique Granados completes the ten piano pieces forming his Danzas españolas       
1900
 
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Keir Hardie is returned to parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, beginning a long and close link between the Labour party and Wales.       
1900
 
    
Charles Stewart Rolls wins the Automobile Club's Thousand Mile Trial in a 12 horse-power Panhard       
1900
 
    
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki       
1900
 
     
The Irish Parliamentary Party, which split after the Parnell divorce case, reunites under the leadership of John Redmond