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1891 Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

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1892: Prince George (later George V) becomes Duke of York.

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1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

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1894: Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying

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1895 In Munich, bicyclists have to pass a test and display license plates.

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U.S. presidential election, 1896: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan.

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1897 Mark Twain, responding to rumors that he is dead, is quoted by the New York Journal as saying, "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

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1898: Empress Dowager Cixi of China engineers a coup d'etat, marking the end of the Hundred Days' Reform; the Guangxu Emperor is arrested.

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1899 A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the most recent time this has happened.

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1900: World Population: 1,650,000,000 (approximate).

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1901 The U.S. stock market crashes.

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1902: Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.

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1903 Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.

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1904: U.S. Army engineers begin work on The Panama Canal.

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1905 Albert Einstein works on the special theory of relativity as well as the theory of Brownian motion.