1900

†1900 Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde Full Movie Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts. Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on “The English Renaissance” in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote […]

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Events 1900s – The hunt for Machiu Picchu

The hunt for Machiu Picchu  Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu on July 14, 1902. The Tour de France starts for the first time in 1903. Food U.S. New Haven, Connecticut Louis Lassen of Louis’ Lunch makes the first modern-day hamburger sandwich. According to family legend, one day in 1900 a local businessman dashed into the small New Haven lunch wagon and pleaded for a lunch to go. According to the Lassen family, the customer, Gary Widmore, exclaimed “Louie! I’m in a rush, slap a meatpuck between two planks and step on it!”. Louis Lassen, the establishment’s owner, placed his own blend of ground steak trimmings between two slices of toast […]

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1900 John Philip Sousa Recordings

Here is a selection of likely pieces to have been included at a concert given during the early 1900s by the band of John Philip Sousa, easily the most famous musical group of its day. Typically these concerts included arrangements of popular operatic and symphonic airs, original marches penned by Sousa himself, dazzling instrumental soloists, and light, entertaining popular melodies of the day.

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1905 Einstein’s Relativity Theory

When Albert Einstein first published the Special Theory of relativity in 1905, he was ridiculed. People thought it was just too weird and radical to be real. Einstein wasn’t satisfied with his theory either, because the theory did not apply if Gravity was present or if the observer was accelerating.  Einstein’s “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper“ (“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”) was received on 30 June 1905 and published 26 September of that same year. The theory developed in this paper later became known as Einstein’s special theory of relativity. There is evidence from Einstein’s writings that he collaborated […]

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1900 Early Ragtime Recordings

During the early 1900s America’s musical pulse was syncopated and ragtime, with its then novel, engaging beat, was seemingly everywhere. Here is a playlist highlighting a diverse group of performers—from a cimbalom soloist to a military band—demonstrating their take on this popular style. 

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1905 Debussy Clair de Lune

Suite bergamasque  is a piano suite by Claude Debussy. He began composing it around 1890, at the age of 28, but significantly revised it just before its 1905 publication. The popularity of the 3rd movement, “Clair de lune“, has made it one of the composer’s most famous works for piano.  Claude Debussy died in 1918, at the age of 55: still quite young for a composer, and still quite early in the history of sound recording. This means that, a little over a century later, we have a great many recordings of Debussy’s music, but precious few recordings of Debussy’s […]

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The Russian Revolution of 1905

Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), diverse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the Russian social and political system. Their protests ranged from liberal rhetoric to strikes and included student riots and terrorist assassinations. These efforts, coordinated by the Union of Liberation, culminated in the massacre of peaceful demonstrators in the square before the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, on Bloody Sunday. In St. Petersburg and other major industrial centres, […]

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