Events

• Climate warming: increase of the glaciers in the the Alps.
• Law of separation of the Church and the State in France

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• restricted Relativity

• Aviation
• culture of the Pearl S

Cinema

• List of French films left in the years 1900

• American Cinema, in the years 1900

Economy & company

Europe

• Fall of the real wages to the the United Kingdom starting from 1900. 10% of the population are subjected to the income tax.
• Stagnation of the agricultural outputs in France (13,6 quintals with the ha for corn of 1901 with 1910).
• Economic advancement in Italy for the period giolittienne (1901 - 1914) supported by a labor abundant, cheap, and by the second industrial revolution born from electricity. The textile, automobile mechanics and the iron and steel industry progress. Giovanni Giolitti will manage prosperity with a majority which it draws towards liberalism.
• 8  623  730 Italian leaves the country of 1901 with 1914.

Africa

• Phase of economic growth in West Africa (1900 - 1913).
• In AOF, the contribution of the metropolis is of 36% of the investments carried out of 1905 with 1913, 0% of those carried out of 1914 with 1930 and of 16% in the Années 1930. The remainder is provided by the own resources (direct taxes, customs taxes, little remunerated work of the Africans which allows the construction of the infrastructures).

The United States

• Of 1900 with 1910, the industrial production increases by 76%. 1% of richest divide 15% of the national revenue. The working condition is degraded relatively in front of the rise of the prices. A third of the families of workmen lives in a state close to poverty. Four million of them works from 45 to 60 hours weekly and two million children from 10 to 15 years is exploited.
• 9 million immigrants between 1901 and 1910.

Asia

• Effort of schooling in Indonesia starting from 1900. The Dutchmen have a school system with share with their creole elementary schools and their colleges, in which only some Indonésiens rich person (1  786 in 1939) are allowed. Indonésiens have the three year old schools of the villages, of a very low level, schools the five year old in the more important agglomerations and the elementary schools Dutch for natives ( Hollands Inlandse School ). The country knows from 90 to 95% of illiterates, and Indonésiens which received a formation of the Western type are often in impossibility of finding an employment.
• With the lifting of last measurements restricting the trade, the Mongolia is invaded by the Chinese shops depending for the majority on Western capital. At the beginning of the 20th century, some 500 business enterprises and usurières function in Mongolia, including 160 with Ourga only. The Western products arrive for the first time on the Mongolian market.

Demography

• the population of the Earth, is estimated at 1  610 million human beings.

America

• 76 million inhabitants to the the United States. 20 million people lives in the West of the the Mississippi.
• white Population of the Quebec: 1  648  898. Population of the Canada less Quebec: 3  722  417.
• 13,607 million inhabitants to the Mexico. A third of the population lives in rural area, but the country is not self-sufficing in foodstuffs.
• 1,583 million inhabitants with Cuba, 0,959 with Puerto Rico, 0,515 in Dominican Republic, 1,560 with Haiti.
• 0,297 million inhabitants to the Costa Rica, 0,766 with the El Salvador, 1,300 with the Guatemala, 0,500 with the Honduras, 0,478 with the Nicaragua, 0,263 with the Panama.
• 3,825 million inhabitants in Colombia, 2,344 with the Venezuela, 1,4 in Ecuador.
• 1,696 million inhabitants in Bolivia, 2,959 with the Chile, 3,791 with the Peru.
• 4,693 million inhabitants in Argentinian, 0,440 with the Paraguay, 0,132 in Uruguay.
• 17,980 million inhabitants to the Brazil.

Asia

• 294 million inhabitants in the Indian sub-continent (Burma included/understood).

Europe

• 129 million inhabitants in Russia (1897). 5 Jewish million in Russia.
• the the United Kingdom account 37 million inhabitants (32,5 in England). 20% of the British live in the countryside. The agglomeration of London includes 7 million inhabitants. Manchester reached 650  000 inhabitants, Liverpool 700  000 and Birmingham 760  000.
• the France account 40,7 million inhabitants.
• the Spain account 18,6 million inhabitants.
• the Italy account 33 million inhabitants.
• the Germany 56,3 million including 0,78 million foreigners.
• the Austria-Hungary account 47 million inhabitants. The Hungary (without the autonomous Croatia) account 16,8 million inhabitants, including 51,4% of Magyars.

Simple: 1900s