nineteen hundreds
Century after Victorian era
The nineteen hundreds refers to the years 1900–1999, synonymous with the twentieth century.
More narrowly, it can mean just the decade 1900–1909: Fashion in the nineteen hundreds still featured corsets and top hats.
Context usually clarifies which span is meant.
The term follows the pattern of other century designations: eighteen hundreds, seventeen hundreds.
First global military conflict
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
- Jazz Age1920s American cultural heyday
Edwardian · Victorian · Harlem Renaissance · Titanic · Ellis Island · Great Migration · San Francisco earthquake · women's rights
First mass-produced automobile
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
- Wright brothersFirst airplane builders
- radio broadcastingAudio sent via frequencies
telegraphy · gramophone · Kodak · cinema · zeppelin · industrialization · urbanization · electrification
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- relativityHow observers differ
- quantum mechanicsPhysics at nanoscopic scales
- Albert EinsteinRenowned twentieth-century physicist
- penicillinFungus-derived infection fighter
Sigmund Freud · vaccination · modernism · suffrage movement · labor movement · socialism · Darwin · Curie
Old valued collectible
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- bygoneOf earlier times
heritage · period piece · memorabilia · preserved · restored · Victoriana · sepia · old-fashioned
World War I
First global military conflict
- Roaring TwentiesProsperous 1920s era
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
Jazz Age · Edwardian · Victorian · Harlem Renaissance · Titanic · Ellis Island · Great Migration · San Francisco earthquake · women's rights · League of Nations
Model T
First mass-produced automobile
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- aviationFlying or operating aircraft
- Wright brothersFirst airplane builders
radio broadcasting · telegraphy · gramophone · Kodak · cinema · zeppelin · industrialization · urbanization · electrification · phonograph
psychoanalysis
Treatment via unconscious exploration
- relativityHow observers differ
- quantum mechanicsPhysics at nanoscopic scales
- Albert EinsteinRenowned twentieth-century physicist
Sigmund Freud · penicillin · vaccination · modernism · suffrage movement · labor movement · socialism · Darwin · Curie · Nietzsche
antique
Old valued collectible
- heirloomInherited family treasure
- collectibleObject worth amassing
- nostalgicLonging for the past
bygone · heritage · period piece · memorabilia · preserved · restored · Victoriana · sepia · old-fashioned · turn-of-the-century