1901

2 March: Platt Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in exchange for withdrawal of American troops.

• Prohibited the Cuban Government from entering into any international treaty, in return for independence
• Allowed the US to intervene in Cuban affairs
• Kicked out in 1934

6 September: Assassination of William McKinley. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes office as President of the United States following McKinley's death on September 14.

• Shot by someone named Czolgosz
• Lost his job in the Economic Panic of 1893 and became an anarchist

First Nobel Prizes awarded.

1902

13 January: Unification of Saudi Arabia begins.

20 May: Cuba gains independence from the United States.

2 July: Philippine–American War ends.

• Started because Phillipines objected to treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish American War, but gave the US Phillipines

12 July: Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

17 July: Willis Carrier invents the first modern electrical air conditioning unit.

1903

1 July: The first Tour de France is held.

July to August: In Russia the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks form from the breakup of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.

• Bolsheviks - radical, far-left and Marxist faction founded by Lenin
• Mensheviks and Soliatist Revolutionaries

18 November: Independence of Panama, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama.

• We gave Panama independence

17 December: First controlled heavier-than-air flight of the Wright Brothers.