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| c. 1900 |
| | | Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon | |
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| 1902 |
| | | Venezuela defaults on European interest payments and is soon threatened by British, German and Italian warships | |
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| 1903 |
| | | José Battle is elected president of Uruguay and proves to be a visionary politician | |
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| 1904 |
| | | Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The Great Valparaiso Earthquake damages much of central Chile and is felt from Peru to Buenos Aires | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Augusto Leguía begins a long spell as the strong man of Peruvian politics | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Coffee replaces sugar as Brazil's main crop, accounting for more than 50% of exports in 1908 | |
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| c. 1911 |
| | | The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham | |
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| 1912 |
| | | German scientist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the neat fit between the coasts of Africa and South America, proposes the theory of continental drift | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Electoral reform is introduced in Argentina, with universal male suffrage and a secret ballot | |
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