Wars of this decade included the PhilippineвЂ“American War, the Second Boer War, the Thousand Days' War, the Anglo-Somali War, the KuwaitiвЂ“Rashidi war, the SaudiвЂ“Rashidi War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Honduran-Nicaraguan War. The First Moroccan and Bosnian crises led to worsened tensions in Europe that would ultimately lead to the First World War in the next decade. Cuba, Bulgaria, and Norway became independent. The foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 led to the rise of the Suffragettes in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1906, Finland granted women the right to vote, the first European country to do so. Reginald Fessenden of East Bolton, Quebec, Canada made what appeared to be the first audio radio broadcasts of entertainment and music ever made to a general audience.ДЇirst-wave feminism saw progress, with universities being opened for women in Japan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Russia, and Peru. The Wright Flyer performed the first recorded controlled, powered, sustained heavier than air flight on December 17, 1903. The decade saw the widespread application of the internal combustion engine including mass production of the automobile, as well as the introduction of the typewriter. The term 'nineteen-hundreds' is often also used to mean the entire century of years from 1900 to 1999 (see 1900s). The Edwardian era (1901вЂ“1910) covers a similar span of time.

The 1900s (pronounced 'nineteen-hundreds') was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909.

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