PEACH

History

1900

World

General

Population: 1.65 Billion*

Business: International Ladies Garment Workers Union founded
George Cadbury founds Bourneville Village Trust
Education: Marie Montessori created school
Entertainment: Photography becomes art form
Film of Cinderella directed by Georges Melies
Writing includes Conrad (Lord Jim), Tolstoy (Resurrection), Colette, Maxim Gorki, Edmond Rostand, Theodore Dreiser, Anton Chekhov, JC Heer, Ellen Key, Leslie Stephen, Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams), Bertrand Russell, Wilhelm Wundt
Music includes Puccini, Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake pioneer ragtime music, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Gustave Charpentier, Elgar, Puccini composes "Tosca"
Top songs include Strike Up the Band, Flight of the Bumblebee, Give Us Just Another Lincoln, I Can’t Tell Why I Love You But I Do, Tell Me Pretty Maiden
Cake Walk becomes fashionable dance
Art includes Picasso, Gauguin, Alma-Tadema, Cezanne, Renoir, Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec
Medicine: Start of malaria pandemic killing between 80 and 250 million until current
Start of tuberculosis pandemic killing 40 and 100 million until current
Science: Eijkman and Hopkins demonstrate importance of vitamins
Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams"
Dorn discovers radon
Planck formulates quantum theory
Fassenden transmits human speech via radio waves
Correns, de Vries and Tschermak all rediscover and refine Mendel’s laws
Sports: DF Davis presents international lawn tennis cup (Davis Cup)
WG Grace ends cricket careen with 54,000 runs
William Muldoon proclaimed first professional wrestling champion
Technology: Brinell tester (Metal hardness tester) invented
First Browning revolvers manufactured
Transportation: Zeppelin built
Deaths: Nietzsche, Stephen Crane, Socialist Wilhelm Liebknecht, Physiologist Wilhelm Kuhne, Psychic Henry Sidgwick, Historian John C Ridpath, Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, Painter Wilhelm Leibl, Artist Mihaly von Munkascy, Oscar Wilde, HIstorian John Ruskin

Africa

General: Death of Samori Toure of Africa two years after his capture
British take Orange Free State, Transvaal, and make South Africa
Island appears in Walvis Bay – South-West Africa – volcanic, but three months later, it had disappeared
Pan-African Congress meets in London – WEB Du Bois serves as secretary
Nigeria: Britain assumes direct control over Nigeria
West Africa: Britain finally subjugates the Asante uprising of W Africa
Yellow Fever outbreak
South Africa: Drought at horn
Orange Free State incorporated
Boers defeated
Uganda: Buganda (East Africa) ruled by the Kabaka (king) with British advice
Sleeping Sickness outbreak for 20 years

Americas

Colombia/Panama: US begins acquisition of canal zone
Cuba: Yellow fever breaks out among US troops in Spanish-American War
Puerto Rico: Foraker Act provides new government

Asia

General: Japan sends troops to China to put down rebellion
China: Boxer Rebellion against foreigners kills 300 (Bad transliteration of nationalist)
End of sixth period of Chinese literature
Open Door Policy with China in effect
Nationalists take foreign embassies in Peking
Approximate end of Ch'ing Dynasty under Manchu rulers
Japan: Peace law places restrictions on trade union activity

Europe

General: Emigration from South-East Europe ebbs
Crete: Arthur Evans excavations in Knossos – discovery of Minoan culture
France: Second Olympics held in Paris
World Expo
Germany: Second German Naval Law confirms growth of Imperial Navy - 20-year plan and arms race with Britain
Bernhard von Bulow named German Chancellor
Civil Law Code comes into force
Great Britain: Wallace Collection in London opened
Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of British Labour Party
Daily Express in London appears
Labour Representation Committee founded
Italy: Death of Humbert I (Umberto) murdered by arnarchist and son Victor Emmanuel III rules
Umberto I eats at restaurant of Umberto – they look identical and wives have same names – restaurant opened day of inauguration and both killed next day
Russia: Manchuria annexed

Middle East

Pacific

Australia: Constitution Bill of Australia established Commonwealth
Sydney Australia plague
New Zealand: Cook Islands annexed
Ocean Island: Phosphate rich island annexed by British

1900

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Membership: 283,765

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