1900 Year in Review

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January

• January 2 – U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy, to promote American trade with China.

• January 5 – Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth's magnetism.

• January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attempt to end the Siege of Ladysmith, which leads to the Battle of Platrand.

• January 9 – S.S. Lazio, an Italian professional sports club, is founded in Rome.

• January 14

• Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome, Italy.

• The U.S. Senate accepts the British-German Treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.

• January 24 – Second Boer War – Battle of Spion Kop: Boer troops defeat the British Army.

• January 27 – Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, Qing Dynasty China, demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.

• January 31 – Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of the Mat Salleh Rebellion in North Borneo, is shot dead in Tambunan.

February

• February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal, across Central America in Nicaragua.

• February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

• February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith.

• February 14 – Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

• February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.

• February 17 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers.

• February 27

• FC Bayern, Germany's most successful football club, is founded in Munich.

• Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender, from Boer General Piet Cronjé.

• The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London.

• February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal, across Central America in Nicaragua.

• February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

• February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith.

• February 14 – Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

• February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.

• February 17 – Second Boer War: Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers.

• February 27

• FC Bayern, Germany's most successful football club, is founded in Munich.

• Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender, from Boer General Piet Cronjé.

• The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London.

March

• March 5 – Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests, in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
• March 6 – A coal mine explosion in West Virginia, U.S.A. kills 50 miners.
• March 14
  • Botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's Laws of Heredity.
  • The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
• March 16 – British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.
• March 18 – AFC Ajax, a successful football club in Netherlands, is founded in Amsterdam.
• March 27 – The arrival of a Russian naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japanese government.

April

• April 14 – The Exposition Universelle, a world's fair, opens in Paris.
• April 22 – Battle of Kousséri: French forces secure their domination of Chad. Warlord Rabih az-Zubayr is defeated and killed.

May

• May 1 – Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder in a coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills 200.
• May 14 – The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris World Exhibition).
• May 17
  • Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking.
  • Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking, and kill 60 Chinese Christians.
  • L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's Oz books, chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.
• May 18 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• May 21 – Russia invades Manchuria.
• May 24 – Second Boer War: The British annex the Orange Free State, as the Orange River Colony.
• May 28 – Boxer Rebellion: The Boxers attack Belgians, in the Fengtai railway station.
• May 29 – N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy, by French commander Émile Gentil.
• May 31 – Boxer Rebellion: Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China, where they join with Japanese forces.

June

• June 1 – American temperance agitator Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons.

• June 5 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.

• June 14 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the Imperial German Navy

• June 17 – Boxer Rebellion – Battle of Dagu Forts: Naval forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture the Taku Forts, on the Hai River estuary in China.

• June 20 – Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.

• June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.

• June 27 – The London Underground's Central London Railway opens.

• June 30 – Hoboken Docks fire: A wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line, spreads to German passenger ships Saale, Main, and Bremen. The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.

July

• July 2 – The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

• July 12 – German cruise liner SS Deutschland breaks the record for the Blue Riband for the first time, with an average speed of 22.4 knots (41.5 km/h).

• July 19 -- The inauguration of the first line of the Paris Metro, Porte Maillot–Porte de Vincennes, took place during the Paris World's Fair.

• July 23-25 – The First Pan-African Conference is held in London.

• July 29 – King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated, by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

August

• August 14 – Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the European hostages.

September

• September 8 – The 1900 Galveston hurricane kills about 6,000–12,000 people.

• September 12 – Admiral Fredrik von Otter becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.

• September 13 – Philippine–American War – Battle of Pulang Lupa: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a detachment of American soldiers.

• September 17 – Philippine–American War – Battle of Mabitac: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat the Americans, under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham.

October

• October 9 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

• October 19 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).

• October 25 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

November

• November 6 – U.S. presidential election, 1900: William McKinley is re-elected president, defeating William Jennings Bryan in a rematch.

• November 29 – Herbert Kitchener succeeds Frederick Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa, and implements a scorched earth strategy.

December

• December 14 – Max Planck announces his discovery of the law of black body emission, marking the birth of quantum physics.

• December 19 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign.

• December 27 – British human rights activist Emily Hobhouse arrives in Cape Town, South Africa.

• December 31 – A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the most recent time this has happened.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900