1900  Wolverhampton rallies to Boer War effort 1901  End of Queen Victoria's 63-year reign 1902  Edward VII crowned king at last 1903  Wright brothers take to the air 1904  End to the old emnity between Britain and France 1905  Tsar's ironclad fleet destroyed by Japanese 1906  Quake lays 'Frisco waste 1907  Suffragettes cause a storm in violent protests 1908  Boxer Jack Johnson's blow against racism 1909  French aviator Louis Bleriot flies into record books 1910  'Johnny Turk' proves a fearsome enemy for Italians 1911  Norwegian explorer Amundsen wins race to South Pole 1912  Hundreds die as Titanic sails to her doom 1913  Suffragette movement gets its first martyr 1914  Europe mobilises as the Great War begins 1915  Regiment earns six VCs before breakfast 1916  Thousands die in the carnage of the Somme 1917  A bloody confrontation at Passchendaele 1918  Armistice ends the 'war to end wars' 1919  Alcock and Brown make non-stop history 1920  US goes dry with dawn of Prohibition 1921  Treaty fails to heal split over Ireland 1922  Mussolini's black shirts on the march 1923  Wedding of future queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 1924  Ramsay MacDonald forms first Labour government