Time Line

Time line

1900 B.C.

Institutions:
Great palaces were built at Knossos, Phaistos and Mallia. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/2000bc.html
Sumer collapsed under the Amorites around 1900BC, who established many sub-kingdoms including Assyria and Babylon. http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/MiddleEast/Sumer.html

Technology:
Egyptians used alternate hieroglyphs while inscribing tablets, the first documented use of written cryptography. http://library.thinkquest.org/28005/flashed/timemachine/timeline.shtml

Beginning around 1900 BC the Harappans became the first to grow and wove cotton into fabric. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/2000bc.html

Governance:

Late Harappan Phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_BC
Fall of last Sumerian dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_BC
Proto-Greek invasions of Greece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_BC
Around 1900 B.C., the Mycenaeans arrived from the North and gained control of Greece. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/2000bc.html
There was a central government. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/2000bc.html
Commerce:
Between 2500 BC and 1900 BC, Naxos enjoyed a period of wealth and development due to commerce and shipping. Naxos is the island of the Cyclades, which Homer named "Dia", because of the tradition that linked the island with Zeus, the greatest of the Olympian god. http://www.naxosway.gr/en/naxos_island.htm
The great age of Crete was the Palaeo-Anactorian era, 1900 -1700 BC, the time for the imposing palaces of king Minos in Knossos, Malia and Phaistos, particularly the first one. http://www.greekprehistory.gr/prehistory.htm
Minoans began trading with other peoples both around the Aegean and as far away as Egypt. http://www.historycentral.com/dates/2000bc.html

1900 A.D.

Institutions:
1898–1900 Architect Victor Horta (1861–1947) builds his own house and studio in Brussels, in the Art Nouveau style for which he is famous. Later, the house will become the Musée Horta. http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ht/11/euwl/ht11euwl.htm
Floradora opens at Broadway's Casino Theatre. It introduces the Floradora sextet, a predecessor to the chorus line. http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html
Concern that trusts and monopolies were taking advantage of workers led to the first large-scale organized labor strike in 1900, an event that impacts industry even today. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html
ALBANY, Feb. 1 -- According to the reports submitted by the savings banks of the State for the year 1900, those in Manhattan in every instance show increased resources over the totals of 1899. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9504E7D71138E733A25751C0A9649C946097D6CF
The Houston Heights Woman's Club, founded by sixteen wives of Houston Heights founders and originally called the Houston Heights Literary Club, held their first meeting at Mrs. Cummings' home on January 15, 1900. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uhwarc/00029/warc-00029.html

Technology:
Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html
Americans were optimistic in 1900. For most of them, life was better materially than it had ever been. This was a time of prosperity. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html
Access to electricity, automobiles, and indoor plumbing was not widespread, but most people felt that such conveniences were just a matter of time. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html
In 1900, a train could bring you the same distance in six days that a covered wagon brought you in six months. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html
Though autos traveled twice as fast as horses, only 8,000 cars and about 10 miles of paved roads existed in 1900 America. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html
Governance:
In China, the anti-foreigner Boxers occupy Beijing. International force ends both the siege and the Boxer Rebellion. http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html
Carrie Chapman Catt succeeds Susan B. Anthony as president of National Woman Suffrage Association. http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html
On January 2, Secretary of State John Hay announces that he has completed negotiations for the "Open Door" policy in China. http://www.enotes.com/1900-government-politics-american-decades/important-events-government-politics
February 6, President William McKinley appoints William Howard Taft, a federal circuit judge, to head the Philippine Commission to establish a civil government in the islands. http://www.enotes.com/1900-government-politics-american-decades/important-events-government-politics
On March 9, the Social Democratic Party meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana nominates the Socialist Eugene V. Debs of Indiana for President and Job Harrison of California as Vice-President. http://www.enotes.com/1900-government-politics-american-decades/important-events-government-politics

Commerce:
In 1900, though, Cairo was a busy transportation center in the Midwest. It was not only a river town, but also had multiple railroad lines. A combination of these two chief factors resulted in the city's growth by the year 1900. http://www.lib.niu.edu/2001/ihy010448.html
Hurricane ravages Galveston, Tex.; 6,000 – 8,000 dead. Background: U.S. Hurricanes http://www.infoplease.com/year/1900.html
The bank clearances of New York are now $1,000,000,000 a year larger
than those of London. The commercial significance of this fact is vast.
It implies the transfer of financial supremacy from England to America. http://www.archive.org/stream/americancommerce00waterich/americancommerce00waterich_djvu.txt
The year 1900 began promisingly for Galveston. The Spanish-American War was over, and shipping traffic resumed its normal level. http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbixgal.html
On January 16, 1900, C. P. Huntington confirmed the purchase of the Galveston, Houston, and Henderson Railroad and its integration into the larger Southern Pacific rail system. http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exbixgal.html
Alongside them came nearly a half-million immigrants in 1900, also seeking a better life. http://www.genealogy.com/76_life1900.html