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• 2.1 Science

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Europe

Cultural History

• In the visual arts produced from about 1907 Cubism.
• Fauvism.
• Expressionism.
• Futurism.

Science

• Ernest Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
• Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford develop the Geiger counter.
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins discovered vitamins.
• Henry Fairfield Osborn describes and names the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Henri Poincaré formulated the Poincaré conjecture.
• Planck's radiation law of Max Planck.
• Special Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein.

Personalities

• Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria- Hungary in

• Edward VII, King British
• Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor
• Bernhard von Bülow, German Chancellor
• Meiji Emperor in Japan
• Cixi, Empress Dowager of China
• Guangxu Emperor of China
• Émile Loubet, President of France
• Carl Barks, comic book writer and signatory
• H. P. Lovecraft, author
• Enrico Caruso, Opera Singer
• Mata Hari, dancer
• Friedrich Alfred Krupp, industrialist and politician
• Wilhelm Liebknecht, a revolutionary
• William McKinley, politician and 25th President of the United States
• Max Reinhardt, theater and film director, artistic director, theater producer and theater founder
• Cecil Rhodes, entrepreneurs and politicians