19th century

time period between January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900

File:1900s decademontage2.png|335px|thumb|right|From left, clockwise: the Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight with a motorized airplane, in Kitty Hawk in 1903; a missionary points to the severed hand of a Congolese villager, symbolic of Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State, which ended in 1908; the 1908 Messina earthquake kills 75,000–82,000 people and becomes the most destructive earthquake ever to strike Europe; the United States gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine–American War; rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal in 1907; Admiral Tog

generation that came of age during World War I, born from 1883 to 1900

period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States and the Empire of Japan

Shortening of glaciers by melting of their ice in warmer locations

term for the period 1789–1914 (from the French Revolution to the outbreak of WW1)

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