: ''For the film, see:
1900 (film).''
Year '1900' ('
MCM') was an
exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar, but a
leap year starting on Saturday
[1]
of the
Julian calendar. As a result, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar until Wednesday,
February 28 (
O.S. February 16) and has been 13 days behind since Thursday,
March 1 (
O.S. February 17).
Events of 1900
January
★
January 1
★
★
Hawaii asks for a delegate at the Republican national convention.
★
★
Nigeria becomes a
British electorate.
★
January 2
★
★ The first
Electric bus becomes operational in
New York City.
★
★
John Hay announces the
Open Door Policy to promote trade with
China.
★
★
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
★
★
Irish leader
John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against
British rule.
★
★ Dr Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University discovers the cause of the
Earth's
magnetism.
★
January 6
★
★ It is reported that millions are starving in
India.
★
★
Boers attack
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.
★
★
Influenza strikes
London.
★
January 10 -
Lord Roberts becomes Army chief in the
Boer War.
★
January 12 - In India, three and a quarter million people are receiving
famine relief.
★
January 13 -
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
Anglo-
German treaty of
1899 in which the
United Kingdom renounced its claims to the
Samoan islands.
★
★ George Griffin becomes the first
Australian ever to be killed in the
Boer War.
★
January 17
★
★
Brigham H. Roberts is refused a seat in the
United States House of Representatives because of his
Polygamy.
★
★ US takes
Wake Island, an important cable link between
Hawaii and
Manila.
★
★
Yaqui Indians in
Texas proclaim independence from
Mexico.
★
January 23 - 5000
Austrian
miners go on strike.
★
January 24
★
★
Battle of Spion Kop in
Second Boer War.
★
★ The governments in London and
Pretoria begin negotiations to end the Second Boer War.
★
January 26 - The Labor League Conference opens in
Sydney,
Australia with plans to form a Federal Labor Party.
★
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 eight founding teams.
★
January 30 -
United Kingdom forces fighting
Boers in
South Africa ask for reinforcements.
★
January 31 - An outbreak of the
bubonic plague intensifies in cities throughout
Australia.
February
★
February 1 -
Western Australia refuses to join the Federation unless given 5 years of fiscal freedom.
★
February 2 - First performance of
Gustave Charpentier's 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.
★
★ Strikers in
Aachen,
Vienna and
Brussels demand an 8 hour working day and higher wages.
★
February 5
★
★
Britain and the
United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through
Nicaragua.
★
★ The
British House of Commons vote of censure over the
Britain's handling of the
Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
★
February 6 - The international arbitration court at
The Hague is created when the
Netherlands' Senate ratifies an
1899 peace conference decree.
★
February 8 -
British troops are defeated by
Boers at
Ladysmith,
South Africa.
★
February 9 -
Dwight F. Davis creates the
Davis Cup tennis tournament.
★
February 11 - Second Boer War: Colonel Hannay begins invasion of
Orange Free State with march from
Orange River to
Ramdam.
★
February 12 - Meeting held in
Mile End,
London to protest against the
Second Boer War ends in uproar.
★
February 14
★
★
Russia responds to international pressure to free
Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
★
★ Second Boer War: In
South Africa, 20,000
British troops invade the Orange Free State.
★
February 16 - Appearance of "Savrola (A Tale of Revolution in Laurania)", the first (and only)
novel of
Winston Spencer Churchill.
★
February 17 -
Battle of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.
★
February 18
★
★
Harry Vardon becomes world
golf champion.
★
★ A man claims that
X-rays have cured his cancer.
★
February 19 -
Alfred von Tirpitz says the German fleet "must be strong enough to ensure its mastery of the
North Sea".
★
February 23
★
★ Second Boer War:
Battle of Hart's Hill - In
South Africa the
Boers and
British troops battle.
★
★ The
bubonic plague in
Australia continues to cause deaths - last case reported was fatal.
★
February 26 - The
Grand Theatre,
Islington is destroyed by fire.
★
February 27
★
★ The
British Labour Party is formed.
★
★ Boer War: In
South Africa,
British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer
General Piet Cronje.
★
★
Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed
British Labour Party.
★
February 28 -
British forces are reinforced in
Ladysmith by the arrival of
cavalry as the
Boers began to retreat.
March
★
March 2
★
★ The
Pope condemns
Boer War.
★
★ Groups of officials inspect towns around
Australia in order to find the new Federal capital.
★
March 3
★
★ Mining strike ends in Germany.
★
★ Classes open at The Training School for Christian Workers, which would become
Azusa Pacific University.
★
March 5 - Two
U.S. cruisers are sent to
Central America to protect US interests in a dispute between
Nicaragua and
Costa Rica.
★
March 6
★
★ 'Baby-farmer'
Ada Williams is hanged at
Newgate prison for murdering a 19-month old girl.
★
★ A
coal mine explosion in
West Virginia traps 50 coal miners.
★
March 7 - Fire at
Buckingham Palace destroys part of its roof.
★
March 8 - Rejoicing in
London as
Queen Victoria makes one of her rare visits.
★
March 9 - Women in Germany demand right to participate in university entrance exams.
★
March 13 - In the
Second Boer War,
Frederick Robert's
British forces occupy
Bloemfontein,
Orange Free State.
★
March 14
★
★
Boer leader
Paul Kruger's peace overtures are rejected by the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
Lord Salisbury.
★
★ Botanist
Hugo de Vries rediscovers
Mendel's laws of heredity.
★
March 15
★
★
Prime Minister Lord Salisbury of the
United Kingdom rejects
U.S. President McKinley's offer to mediate in the
Boer War.
★
★ The
Gold Standard Act is ratified placing
United States currency on the
gold standard.
★
March 16 - Sir
Arthur Evans purchases the land on which the ruins of
Knossos on
Crete reside, for further excavation.
★
March 19
★
★ In
London, public subscription for new Government
Boer War loan is £335m - 11 times the amount asked.
★
★ The
British archaeologist Arthur Evans begins to unearth some of the palace of
Knossos on the
Greek island of
Crete.
★
March 24 -
New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link
Manhattan and
Brooklyn.
★
March 25 - The
War of the Golden Stool erupts in the
Ashanti Kingdom of West Africa between the Ashanti and British colonial forces.
★
March 27
★
★ Arrival of a Russian fleet in
Korea causes concern to
Japanese government.
★
★
India in crisis as millions starve. The country turns to the Colonial Government for help as food supplies run out.
★
March 28 - Over 1,000 tonnes of filth is removed from demolished
Sydney, Australia buildings in areas that were effected by the
bubonic plague outbreak.
★
March 31 - In
France, the length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
April
★
April 1
★
★ Every French policeman is assigned to carry a gun.
★
★
Irish Guards formed by Queen
Victoria
★
★
King George of Greece becomes absolute monarch of
Crete.
★
April 4 - Anarchist shoots at the
Prince of Wales during his visit to
Belgium in the birthday celebrations of the king of Belgium.
★
April 14 -
Paris World Exhibition opens.
★
April 22 - French forces defeat and kill
Rabih az-Zubayr in the
battle of Kousséri, thus guaranteeing French domination of
Chad.
★
April 26 - Great Lumber Fire of Ottawa-Hull.
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
Britain at the time of the Second Boer War.
★
May 17
★
★ Second Boer War:
British troops relieve
Mafeking
★
★
Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians
★
May 18
★
★
Boer delegation travels to USA to ask for assistance
★
★ 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
★
★ British under Lord Robert occupy
Johannesburg
June
★
June 1 -
Carrie Nation demolishes 25 saloons in
Medicine Lodge
★
June 5 - Boer War:
British soldiers take
Pretoria,
South Africa.
★
June 14 - The
Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the
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
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 -
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
first line of the
Métro is inaugurated in
Paris.
★
July 29 - In
Italy, King
Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by
Italian-born anarchist
Gaetano Bresci.
★
July 30 - The Duke of Albany becomes Duke of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as
Carl Eduard following the death of his uncle,
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 1 -
Rasmussen College opens in
St. Paul, MN and offers its first classes.
★
September 8 -
Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful
hurricane hits
Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
★
September 13 -
Philippine-American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a larger American column in the
Battle of Pulang Lupa.
★
September 17 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under
Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at
Mabitac.
★
September 25 - In the
United Kingdom general election, the recently-formed Labour Party gains two seats, with
Keir Hardie becoming MP for
Merthyr Tydfil.
Winston Churchill is elected to Parliament for the first time.
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.
★
★ Panama's separation from Colombia.
★
November 6 -
U.S. presidential election, 1900:
Republican incumbent
William McKinley is reelected by defeating
Democrat challenger
William Jennings Bryan.
★
November 30 -
Oscar Wilde dies.
December
★
December 7 -
Max Planck, in his house at
Grunewald, on the outskirts of
Berlin, discovers the law of
black body emission.
★
December 18 - The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook
Narrow-gauge (2
ft 6
in or 762
mm) Railway (now the
Puffing Billy Railway) in
Victoria,
Australia opened for traffic.
Undated
★ (no undated events)
World population
★
World population: 1,650,000,000
★
★
Africa: 133,000,000
★
★
Asia: 947,000,000
★
★
Europe: 408,000,000
★
★
Latin-America: 74,000,000
★
★
Northern America: 82,000,000
★
★
Oceania: 6,000,000
Births
January-June
★
January 1 -
Mildred Davis, American actress (d.
1969)
★
January 2 -
William Haines, American actor (d.
1973)
★
January 4 -
James Bond (ornithologist) (d.
1989)
★
January 5 -
Yves Tanguy, French painter (d.
1955)
★
January 16 -
Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of
Anne Frank (d.
1945)
★
January 25 -
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Geneticist, evolutionary biologist (d.
1975)
★
January 23 -
William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d.
1988)
★
January 26 -
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d.
1967)
★
January 27 -
Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d.
1986)
★
January 30 -
Martita Hunt, actress (d.
1969)
★
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 laureate (d.
1971)
★
February 22 -
Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director (d.
1983)
★
February 28 -
Wolfram Hirth, German pilot and aircraft designer (d.
1959)
★
March 4 -
Herbert Biberman, Jewish American screenwriter and film director (d.
1971)
★
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 2 -
Roberto Arlt, Argentine writer (d.
1942)
★
April 5 -
Spencer Tracy, American actor (d.
1967)
★
April 16 -
Polly Adler, Russian author (d. 1962)
★
April 25 -
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1958)
★
April 26 -
Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d.
1985)
★
April 27 –
August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (d.
1989)
★
April 30 -
Cecily Lefort, English World War II heroine (executed) (d.
1945)
★
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 17 -
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran (d.
1989)
★
May 27 -
Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (d.
1933)
★
May 28 -
Tommy Ladnier, American jazz trumpeter (heart attack) (d.
1939)
★
June 3 -
Rolland Fisher, American temperance activist (d.
1982)
★
June 4 -
George Watkins, owner of
rookie MLB batting average record (d.
1970)
★
June 5 -
Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1979)
★
June 7 -
Glen Gray, American saxophonist and leader of the
Casa Loma Orchestra (d.
1963)
★
June 15 -
Paul Mares, American jazz trumpeter (d.
1949)
★
June 29 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (d.
1944)
July-December
★
July 4 -
Robert Desnos, French poet (d.
1945)
★
July 6 -
Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright, essayist and author
★
July 13 -
George Lewis, American jazz clarinetist (d.
1968)
★
July 29 -
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1976)
★
August 3 -
Ernie Pyle, American journalist (d.
1945)
★
August 4 -
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of
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, American archaeologist (d.
1994)
★
August 18 -
Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d.
1964)
★
August 19 -
Colleen Moore, American actress (d.
1988)
★ August 19 -
Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d.
1976)
★
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 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)
★
September 28 -
Boris Efimov, Russian political cartoonist and propaganda artist
★
September 29 -
Auguste van Pels, German-Dutch mother of
Peter van Pels, housemate of
Anne Frank (d.
1945)
★
October 1 -
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d.
1966)
★
October 6 -
Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d.
1961)
★
October 7 -
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d.
1945)
★
October 30 -
Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1991)
★
November 4 -
Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d.
1954)
★
November 5
★
★
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d.
1972)
★
★
Natalie Schafer, American actress (d.
1991)
★
November 8
★
★
Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d.
1943)
★
★
Margaret Mitchell, American writer (d.
1949)
★
November 11 -
Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d.
1989)
★
November 13 -
David Marshall Williams, American inventor (d.
1975)
★
November 14 -
Aaron Copland, American composer (d.
1990)
★
November 16 -
Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (d.
1962)
★
December 3
★
★
Ulrich Inderbinen, Swiss mountain guide (d.
2004)
★
★
Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1967)
★
December 4 -
John Axon, British railwayman (d.
1957)
★
December 12 -
Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d.
1988)
★
December 20 -
Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Dutch politician, At the time of his death in Wassenaar at the age of 104 he was the longest lived politician on record in the world.(d.
2005)
Deaths
::''(See 1900 list of deaths by name: .)''
January - June
★
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)
★
February 18 -
Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b.
1824)
★
March 6 -
Gottlieb Daimler, German inventor and automotive pioneer (b.
1834)
★
March 6 -
Carl Bechstein,
German pianoforte maker. (b.
1826)
★
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 railway engineer (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 - December
★
July 8 -
Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist (b.
1820)
★
July 29 -
Umberto I,
King of Italy (assassinated) (b.
1844)
★
July 31 -
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of
Queen Victoria (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 -
José Maria Eça de Queiroz, 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, American politician (b.
1823)
★
November 22 -
Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b.
1842)
★
November 30 -
Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b.
1854)
Notes
1.
"Calendar in year 1900 (Russia)" (Julian on Saturday), webpage:
Julian-1900
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
External links
★
1900 Coin Pictures
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