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1900Europe - France
 

 
Alphonse Marie Mucha, 1900, Study for the Bosnia-Hercegovina pavilion at the World Fair, Paris, Gelatin silver print, toned, Paul Cava Fine Art, LL/7730
The Exposition Universelle (International Exposition) opens in Paris 
1901Europe - Great Britain
 
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) transmits radio messages from England to Canada. 
1902Europe - France
 

 
Georges Mèliès, 1902, Le voyage dans la Lune #2, Gelatin silver print, AnamorFose, LL/8775
Georges Méliès shows his film A Trip to the Moon in Paris. 
1903North America - USA
 
The first flight of a Wright brothers powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. 
1905North America - USA
 
The first cinema, the Nickelodeon, opens in Pittsburgh. 
1906North America - USA
 

 
W.C. Mendenhall, 1906, Apr 20, San Francisco, California, Earthquake April 18, 1906. Phelan Building, United States Geological Service, LL/6619
An earthquake destroys San Francisco and the resulting fires devastate the city. It is photographed by Edward Rodgers (San Francisco Morning Call), George Parmenter (San Francisco Examiner), George Haley (Chronicle) and a number of commercial photographers including Arnold Genthe take memorable pictures.
1908North America - USA
 
The Ford Model T motor car is sold. 
1909Europe
 
Louis Blériot (1872-1936) flies across the English Channel in his plane. 
1911North America - USA
 

 
Brown Brothers, 1911, Triangle Fire Victims Awaiting Identification, Gelatin silver print, Swann Galleries - New York, LL/35578
Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York kills 145 employees. 
1913North America - USA
 

 
Unidentified photographer, 1913, Armory Show, View, Gelatin silver print, Source requested, LL/1939
The International Exhibition of Modern Art is held in New York and becomes known as the Armory Show taking the name from the Armory building. The exhibition introduces the American public to European trends in painting and sculpture. It is a revelation to those that see it and it impacts on photography by showing that copying the stylistic techniques and conventions of painting, as many of the pictorialists do, is no longer valid. 
1914Europe - Great Britain
 

 
1914, 20 June, Magazine cover for "Blast - Review Of the Great English Vortex", No. 1, Magazine cover, P4 Photography (formerly Potássio Quatro), LL/25204
The Vorticist Manifesto is published in their journal Blast
1916Europe - Germany
 

 
Ruth Orkin, n.d., Einstein, Gelatin silver print, Fay Gold Gallery, LL/5349
Albert Einstein proposes the General Theory of Relativity. 
1917Europe - France
 

 
Alfred Stieglitz, 1917, Fountain by R. Mutt, Book page, Creative Commons - Wikipedia, LL/47495
Marcel Duchamp exhibits his surrealist work The Fountain using a upturned urinal. 
1919Europe - Germany
 

 
Lucia Moholy, n.d., Walter Gropius, Musée de l'Elysée, LL/7918
Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus school of design. 
1919Europe - France
 
The French film director Abel Gance (1889-1981) releases the anti-war film J'accuse!. In it he uses wounded actors to portray the ghosts of fallen men. In 1924 John Heartfield created the photomontage After ten years: fathers and sons in which he uses skeletons and marching soldiers to depict the futility of war.

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