1900 AD

• Gwen’s family starts making candy hearts out of earwig honey and bone meal. (Alternate First)

1904 AD

• February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.

1906 AD

• St. Petersburg, Russia, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna comforts her youngest granddaughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
• April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

1908 AD

• November 3 – 1908 United States presidential election: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan,

1909 AD

• March 4 – Theodore Roosevelt steps down and William Howard Taft is inaugurated as President of the United States.

1911 AD

• May 30 – The Indy 500 is first held.

1913 AD

• March – The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.