Timeline: Wesley Brakefield: Our Family History

1900 - 1901 (1 year)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1897	4 Mar 1897—14 Sep 1901: William McKinley U.S. Presidency
2	1898	21 Apr 1898—13 Aug 1989: Spanish-American War
3	1899	4 Feb 1899—2 Jul 1902: Philippine-American War 18 Oct 1899—7 Sep 1901: Boxer Rebellion
4	1900	1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years 1900—1900: Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified 1900—1900: Escalator shown at Paris exhibition 9 Feb 1900—9 Feb 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established 27 Feb 1900—27 Feb 1900: Labour Party formed
5	1901	1901—1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner 22 Jan 1901—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king 2 Feb 1901—2 Feb 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park Jun 1901—Jun 1901: Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War 14 Sep 1901—4 Mar 1909: Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Presidency 2 Oct 1901—2 Oct 1901: Britain's first submarine launched 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland