| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Ruskin dies
|  | Boxer Rebellions in China against Europeans
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| | Sigmund Freud: The interpretation of Dreams
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| | Planck creates Quantum Theory
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| | Exposition Universelle held in Paris, the largest of all international exhibitions
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Queen Victoria dies; succeeded by Edward VII
|  | Boers begin organised guerilla warfare
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| | Boxing recognised as a legal sport in Britain
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Brett dies
|  | Boer War ends, 5,774 British and 4,000 Boer casualties; Orange Free State becomes a British Colony
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Birmingham begins purchase of Pre-Raphaelite drawings from Murray (completed 1906)
|  | Wilber & Orville Wright successfully fly a powered airplane
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| | Women's Suffrage Society founded in England
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| | First Tour de France held
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Beerbohm publishes The Poets' Corner
|  | Russo-Japanese War breaks out; first use of trenches
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Beerbohm: Rossetti in his back garden
| London Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert
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Sandys dies
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Hunt publishes Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; awarded Order of Merit and honorary D. C. L. from Oxford
|  | Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated as U.S. President for second term
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Solomon dies
| Albert Einstein formulates Special Theory of Relativity
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| | First neon lights appear
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| |  | San Fransisco earthquake kills 700, $400 million property losses
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| | Position of magnetic North Pole determined
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Stephens dies
|  | Rudyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for Literature
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| | First Cubist exhibition held in Paris
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| | Ivan Pavlov studies conditioned reflexes
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| | First 'Ziegfeld Follies' staged in New York
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Hughes exhibits at Royal Academy for last time
|  | H. H. Asquith becomes British Prime Minister
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| | Production of first Model T Ford in Detroit
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| | Zeppelin Disaster
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| | London hosts Olympic Games
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| |  | Sigmund Freud lectures in USA on psychoanalysis |
| | Mary Pickford becomes first film star |
| | First commercial manufacture of Bakelite marks beginning of plastic age
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1900s 
