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'''1900''' ('''
Roman numerals MCM''') was an
Leap year#Rules for determining when to have a leap year exceptional common year starting on Monday.
Events
January
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January 1 -
Nigeria becomes a
Britain British Protectorate
*
January 2 - The first
Electric bus becomes operational in
New York City
*
January 2 -
John Hay announces the
Open Door Policy to promote trade with
China.
*
January 2 -
Chicago Canal opens.
*
January 3 - British Royal Yacht,
Victoria and Albert capsizes as it leaves port
*
January 4 - Strikes in
Belgium and
Germany lead to mining riots
*
January 5 -
Ireland Irish leader
John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against
United Kingdom British rule.
*
January 5 - Dr Henry A. Rowland of John Hopkins University discovers the cause of the
Earth's
magnetism
*
January 6 - It is reported that millions are starving in
India.
*
January 6 -
Boers attack
Ladysmith, South Africa Ladysmith - over 1000 people were killed.
*
January 8 -
United States President William McKinley places
Alaska under military rule.
*
January 9 - The First through
train runs from
Cairo to
Khartoum
*
January 9 -
Influenza strikes
London
*
January 10 -
Lord Roberts become Army chief in the
Second Boer War Boer War
*
January 12 - In India, Three and a quarter million people are receiving
famine relief.
*
January 13 -
Wilhelm II of Germany Kaiser of Germany declares that German is the command language in the German army
*
January 14 - Premier presentation of opera ''
Tosca'' in Rome - actors have received death threats and nameless letters.
*
January 15 - The Hippodrome theatre opens in the Charing Cross Roads in
London
*
January 16 - The
United States Senate accepts the
United Kingdom Anglo-
Germany German treaty of
1899 in which the
United Kingdom renounced its claims to the
American Samoa Samoan islands.
*
January 17 -
Brigham H. Roberts is refused a seat in the
House of Representatives because of his
Polygamy
*
January 23 - 5000
Austria Austrian miners go on strike
*
January 24 -
Battle of Spion Kop in
Second Boer War.
*
January 24 - The governments in London and
Pretoria begin negotiations to end the Second Boer War.
*
January 27 -
Boxer rebellion: Foreign diplomats in
Peking China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
*
January 29 - The
American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
*
January 30 -
United Kingdom forces fighting
Boers in
South Africa ask for reinforcements.
February
Image:Labour Party.png thumb|200px|Labour Party of the United Kingdom formed February 1900
*
February 2 - First performance of
Gustave Charpentier's opera,
Louise (opera) Louise
*
February 3 -
Gubernatorial candidate
William Goebel is assassinated in
Frankfort, Kentucky.
Former-Secretary of State
Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
*
February 6 - The international arbitration court at
The Hague is created when the
Netherlands' Senate ratifies an
1899 peace conference decree.
*
February 7 - The
Labour Party (UK)British Labour Party is formed.
*
February 8 -
United Kingdom British troops are defeated by
Boers at
Ladysmith, South Africa Ladysmith,
South Africa.
*
February 9 -
Richard Wigginton Thompson,
U.S. congressman, dies.
*
February 14 -
Russia responds to international pressure to free
Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
*
February 14 - Second Boer War: In
South Africa, 20,000
United Kingdom British troops invade the
Orange Free State.
*
February 17 -
Battle of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.
*
February 22 -
Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the
United States.
*
February 23 - Second Boer War:
Battle of Hart's Hill - In
South Africa the
Boers and
United Kingdom British troops battle.
*
February 27 - Boer War: In
South Africa,
United Kingdom British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from
Boer General Piet Cronje.
*
February 27 -
Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed
British Labour Party.
March
*
March 3 - Mining strike ends in Germany.
*
March 6 - A
coal mine explosion in
West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
*
March 9 - Women in Germany demand right to participate in university entrance exams
*
March 11 - Second Boer War:
Boer leader
Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Lord Salisbury.
*
March 13 - Second Boer War:
United Kingdom British forces occupy
Bloemfontein,
Orange Free State.
*
March 13 - In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law
*
March 14 - The
Gold Standard Act is ratified placing
United States currency on the
gold standard.
*
March 16 - Sir
Arthur Evans discovers the ruins of
Knossos on
Crete
*
March 24 -
New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link
Manhattan and
Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn.
April
*
April 1 - Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
*
April 1 -
Irish Guards formed by Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom Victoria
*
April 4 - Anarchist shoots at the
Edward VII of the United Kingdom Prince of Wales during his visit to
Belgium in the birthday celebrations of the king of Belgium.
*
April 14 -
Paris Exhibition of 1900 Paris World Exhibition opens.
May
*
May 1 - Explosion of blasting powder in
coal mine in
Scofield, Utah kills 200
*
May 2 -
Oscar II, King of Sweden, declares support for
United Kingdom Britain at the time of the Second Boer War.
*
May 17 - Second Boer War:
United Kingdom British troops relieve
Siege of Mafeking Mafeking
*
May 17 -
Boxer Rebellion Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians
*
May 18 -
Boer delegation travels to USA to ask for assistance
*
May 18 - The
United Kingdom proclaims a
protectorate over
Tonga.
*
May 21 -
Russia invades
Manchuria
*
May 23 - Sergeant
William Harvey Carney becomes the first
African American to be awarded the
Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the
Battle of Fort Wagner during the
American Civil War).
*
May 24 - Second Boer War: British annex
Orange Free State as
Orange River Colony.
*
May 25 - Boer soldiers vote for the continuance of the war
*
May 28 - Boxers attack Belgian personnel in the Fengtai railway station
*
May 29 - Chinese government condemns Boxers
*
May 30 - Boxers occupy
Tientsin
*
May 31 - Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China
*
May 31 - British under Lord Robert occupy
Johannesburg
June
*
June 1 -
Carrie Nation demolishes 25 saloons in
Medicine Lodge
*
June 5 - Boer War:
United Kingdom British soldiers take
Pretoria,
South Africa.
*
June 14 - The
Reichstag (institution) Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the
Germany German navy.
*
June 20 - The
Boxers gather about 20,000 people near
Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
*
June 30 - Piers of North German Lloyd Steamship line burned in
Hoboken, New Jersey - 326 dead
July
Image:Map of Australia.png thumb|200px|Australia, founded July 9, 1900
*
July 2 - First
zeppelin flight on
Lake Constance near
Friedrichshafen,
Germany
*
July 5 -
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passes British Parliament
*
July 9 -
Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria gives royal assent to
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
*
July 13 -
Boxer Rebellion: In
China,
Tientsin is retaken by European Allies from the rebelling
Boxers
*
July 19 - The
Paris Metro Line 1 first line of the
Paris Métro Métro is inaugurated in
Paris.
*
July 29 - In
Italy, King
Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by
Italy Italian-born anarchist
Gaetano Bresci.
*
July 30 - The Duke of Albany becomes Duke of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as
Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Carl Eduard following the death of his uncle,
Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Duke Alfred
August
*
August 14 - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades
Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
*
August 27 - British defeat Boer commandos at
Bergendal
September
*
September 8 -
Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful
tropical cyclone hurricane hits
Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
*
September 17 -
Philippine-American War: Filipinos under
Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at
Mabitac.
October
*
October - The Norwegian inventor
Johann Vaaler demands a patent for his invention, the
paperclip.
November
*
November 3 - the first automobile show in the
United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.
*
November 6 -
U.S. presidential election, 1900:
United States Republican Party Republican incumbent
William McKinley is reelected by defeating
United States Democratic Party Democrat challenger
William Jennings Bryan.
Births
January
*
January 5 -
Yves Tanguy, French painter (d.
1955)
*
January 15 -
Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d.
1975)
*
January 26 -
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d.
1967)
*
January 27 -
Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d.
1986)
February
*
February 4 -
Jacques Prévert, French lyricist and author (d.
1977)
*
February 5 -
Adlai Stevenson, American politician (d.
1965)
*
February 11 -
Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (d.
2002)
*
February 12 -
Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d.
1983)
*
February 19 -
Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1971)
*
February 22 -
Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d.
1983)
*
February 28 -
Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d.
1959)
March
*
March 9 -
Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d.
1973)
*
March 19 -
Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
1958)
*
March 23 -
Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (d.
1980)
*
March 29 -
John McEwen, eighteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (d.
1980)
*
March 31 -
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d.
1974)
April
*
April 2 -
Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d.
1942)
*
April 5 -
Spencer Tracy, American actor (d.
1967)
*
April 25 -
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1958)
*
April 26 -
Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d.
1985)
*
April 30 -
Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine (executed) (d.
1945)
May
*
May 1 -
Ignazio Silone, Italian author (d.
1978)
*
May 12 -
Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d.
1971)
*
May 15 -
Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist
*
May 28 -
Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (heart attack) (d.
1939)
June
*
June 3 -
Rolland Fisher, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1982)
*
June 5 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
*
June 15 -
Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1949)
*
June 29 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (d.
1944)
July
*
July 13 -
George Lewis (clarinetist) George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d.
1969)
*
July 29 -
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1976)
August
*
August 3 -
Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d.
1945)
*
August 4 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of King
George VI of the United Kingdom (d.
2002)
*
August 6 -
Cecil H. Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman (d.
2003)
*
August 10 -
Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d.
1994)
*
August 11 -
Philip Phillips (archaeologist) Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d.
1994)
*
August 15 -
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (d.
1966)
*
August 19 -
Colleen Moore, American actress (d.
1988)
*
August 22 -
Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d.
1964)
*
August 25 - Sir
Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1981)
*
August 26 -
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d.
1980)
September
*
September 3 -
Urho Kekkonen,
President of Finland (d.
1986)
*
September 6 -
W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (d.
1979)
*
September 22 -
Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (d.
1985)
*
September 23 -
Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d.
1988)
October
*
October 1 -
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d.
1966)
*
October 6 -
Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d.
1961)
*
October 7 -
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS (d.
1945)
*
October 30 -
Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1991)
November
*
November 5 -
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d.
1972)
*
November 8 -
Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d.
1943)
*
November 8 -
Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d.
1949)
*
November 11 -
Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d.
1989)
*
November 14 -
Aaron Copland, American composer (d.
1990)
December
*
December 3 -
Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d.
2004)
*
December 3 -
Richard Kuhn, Austrian
Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d.
1967)
*
December 4 -
John Axon GC, British railwayman (d.
1957)
*
December 12 -
Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d.
1988)
Deaths
*
January 20 -
Richard D. Blackmore, British Novelist
*
January 20 -
John Ruskin, English writer and social critic (b.
1819)
*
January 31 -
John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman and boxer (b.
1844)
*
March 6 -
Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor and automotive pioneer (b.
1834)
*
April 5 -
Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b.
1822)
*
April 19 -
James Dawson, Aboriginal Guardian (b.
1806)
*
April 24 -
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, British politician (b.
1823)
*
April 30 -
Casey Jones, American train wreck victim (b.
1864)
*
May 18 -
Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher (b.
1813)
*
June 3 -
Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer (b.
1862)
*
June 5 -
Stephen Crane, American author (b.
1871)
*
June 11 -
Belle Boyd, American Confederate spy and actress (b.
1843)
*
July 29 -
Umberto I,
King of Italy (assassinated) (b.
1844)
*
July 30 -
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b.
1844)
*
August 10 -
Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen,
Lord Chief Justice of England (b.
1832)
*
August 12 -
Wilhelm Steinitz, Austrian-born chess player (b.
1836)
*
August 16 -
Eça de Queirós, Portuguese writer (b.
1845)
*
August 25 -
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b.
1844)
*
August 25 -
Kuroda Kiyotaka,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1840)
*
September 23 -
William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder (murdered) (b.
1816)
*
September 29 -
Samuel Fenton Cary, American politician (b.
1814)
*
October 15 -
Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (b.
1850)
*
October 22 -
John Sherman (politician) John Sherman, American politician (b.
1823)
*
November 22 -
Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b.
1842)
*
November 30 -
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b.
1854)
Month/day unknown
*
Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b.
1820)
Notes
* 1900 is '''not''' a
leap year even though the number is divisible by 4. It is one of the dropped leap years of the
Gregorian Calendar.
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Note that while 1900 is part of the decade of the
1900s (
1900-
1909), it is actually the last year of the
19th century rather than the first year of the
20th century as is often erroneously believed.
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