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.
