When would you say the 1900s really started?

Started in 1900. Went to shit in 1914.

You can't just say it started sometime else because it'd align up nicely with a major historical event, and so would be better for our understanding of history. It started on 1st Jan 1900, whether we like it or not.

Besides, I think 1900 is a great year for categorising time periods. It's right about when electricity, cars, aeroplanes, movies, radio, phonographs, etc. were all invented. It's really convenient for thinking about the past.

April 2, 1877. That is when the first human cannonball act was performed, which later defined the 20th century. The 1900s officially ended in 2027 with the invention of nanocanons which which made all human canonball performances obsolete.

I would say about , um, the year 1900.

My options:

*1914, when WWI broke out.
*1911, after the death of Florence Nightingale (founding mother of modern nursing and public health) and the sinking of the Titanic.
*1901, when Queen Victoria died and the 'Victorian' era was over.

Nobody seems to talk about 1900-1910, or the 1920s. But nobody could argue that the 1930s were outside of what we think of as 'the twentieth century'.

Advances in science and public health,
the birth of mass culture, the rise in power of mass media and big business, the rise of the 'middle classes' and the need for leisure, and irresponsible capitalism, are what I think of as 20th century.

People were put to the ethical and moral test of whether they could exert their new-found buying power responsibility, and they failed miserably. If the 19th century was about the development of mass production, the 20th century was about the commodification and exploitation of people and things, off the back of the possibilities that the 19th century had started to open up. Empires were handed back and slavery was abolished, while real power came to lie in how many factories you could run, how cheaply you could get people to work in them, and how little tax you could get away with paying. Even if in the 20th century, consent became 'king' as it had never been before, in many cases the social and economic forces forces pre-conditioning the 'yes' or the 'no' were too strong to for the consent to be a real choice.

1990 not 1914.

Why don't you just call it the 20th century?

Omg! Just did a Google search on the 20th century.
Google search:The 20th century began on January 1, 1901😲

1900...

It started in 1900, obviously.

It’s not a matter of opinion, very few things are. Most things are either objectively true or false. Your line of thought is a becoming a very harmful problem in the world today on so many levels.

Like 2003-ish

1903 kitty hawk

start of aviation

Why ww1?

Because if the mass death due to emerging technology of war that would be shifted to the us civil war. Machine guns, battleships, submarines, old tatics failing terribly.

1900s started january 1st 1900

Idk but I remember talking to my great grandma who was born in 1898. And she had conversations with former slaves and also civil war veterans. And those civil war vets had conversations with ppl who were alive before American independence. Kind of crazy how young my country is. Its sad that all the ww2 vets are passing away. I use to go see my uncle in the nursing home and id talk to these ww2 vets.