Events and Trends Technology\n* Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first documented flight in a powered heavier-than-air aircraft\n* Mass production of automobile\n* Wide popularity of home phonograph Science\n* Planck's law of black body radiation\n* Einstein's theory of special relativity\n* Einstein explains Brownian motion and the photoelectric effect War, peace and politics\n* The New Imperialism\n* Demand of Home Rule for Ireland\n* Second Boer War ends\n* Australia becomes independent\n* Russo-Japanese War establishes Japan as a world power\n* UK and France sign Entente Cordiale Economics Culture, religion\n* Emergence of Cubist and Futurist art Others\n* Panama Canal World Leaders\n* Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary)\n* Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany)\n* King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)\n* Pope Leo XIII\n* Pope Pius X\n* Emperor Nicholas II (Russia)\n* Queen Victoria (United Kingdom)\n* King Edward VII (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour (United Kingdom)\n* Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (United Kingdom)\n* President William McKinley (United States)\n* President Theodore Roosevelt (United States) Important Personalities \n* Sigmund Freud \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
