1908
1909
history - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama - the last United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina - the United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright Brothers - Ottoman Empire slaughters thousands of Armenian Christians
culture - the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, now BP, is incorporated - AEG Turbine Factory in Berlin, designed by Peter Behrens is completed - Ferenc Molnár: Liliom - Emil Nolde: The Last Supper
music - Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel - Richard Strauss: Elektra - Franz Lehar: Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg) - Arnold Schönberg: Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Gardens): breaks away from conventional musical order through its usage of atonality - Isaac Albéniz (†) - Francisco Tárrega (†)
first released recordings - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet/Singers
released songs - Fisk University Jubilee Singers: Old Black Joe. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- 1909.11.13? - US: New York City (Long Island City) - recordings for Edison Amberol - Polk Miller's Old South Quartette (Randell Graves, James L. Stamper...)
- 1909.12.01 -- US: NewJersey: Camden - recordings for Victor - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Aldred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder)
- 1909.12.08 -- US: NewJersey: Camden - recordings for Victor - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Aldred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder)
- 1909.12.09 -- US: NewJersey: Camden - recordings for Victor - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Aldred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder)
- 1909.12.21 -- US: NewJersey: Camden - recordings for Victor - Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (John Wesley Work II, James Andrew Myers, Aldred Garfield King, Noah Walker Ryder)
- 1909.12.22 -- US: NewJersey: Camden - recordings for Victor - Billy Murray, Haydn Quartet (Hooley, William F., Macdonough, Harry, Wells, John Barnes, Werrenrath, Reinald)