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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1900

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^.

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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[edit] Events of 1900

[edit] 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.

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[edit] February

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Plaque recording the location of the formation of the British Labour Party in 1900.

• 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 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 British troops battle.
  • The bubonic plague in Australia continues to casue 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.

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[edit] 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.

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