1900
1900 Time Line
January 1900
- January 5: John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt by the Irish against British rule.
- January 6: British fight the Boers at the Battle of Platrand.
- January 8: President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule during the Gold Rush.
- January 9: There is an influenza epidemic in London.
- January 12: First commercial automobile designed by Henry Ford is produced.
- January 29: Vladimir Lenin returns from exile after 3 years in Siberia.
- January 31: An outbreak of bubonic plague is reported in Australia.
February 1900
- February 1: Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie camera for $1.
- February 2: Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis form the American League.
- February 5: Britain and the United States sign a treaty to build a canal through Nicaragua.
- February 7: The British Labour Party is formed.
- February 27: The siege of Ladysmith in the Second Boer War ends.
March 1900
- March 14: The Gold Standard Act is passed, placing the United States on the gold standard.
- March 18: Engineer John Luther Jones, immortalized in the song Casey Jones, killed in a train crash.
- March 24: Ground breaking for "Rapid Transit Railroad" to link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- March 31: Saturday Evening Post carries the first national ad for an automobile.
- March 31: National Assembly in France limits the workday for women and children to 11 hours.
April 1900
- April 12: Puerto Rico becomes a United States territory when the Foraker Act is passed.
- April 14: World Exhibition opens in Paris.
- April 17: American Samoa created when tribal chiefs on the Tutuila and Aunu'u Islands ceded to the U.S..
- April 19: Philadelphia Phillies beat Boston Beaneaters 19-17 in the first Major League Baseball game of the century.
- April 26: 3,000 homes destroyed in Ottawa in the Ottawa-Hull Lumber Fire.
- April 30: Territorial government established for Hawaii with the Organic Act.
May 1900
- May 2: Peasant Valley Mine Disaster kills 201 miners in Scofield, Utah.
- May 14: Summer Olympics begin in Paris, France.
- May 21: Russia annexes Manchuria.
- May 24: Walter Reed and Jesse Lazear sent to Cuba to study Yellow Fever.
- May 31: Johannesburg, South Africa is captured by the British.
June 1900
- June 1: Carrie Nation destroys 25 saloons in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
- June 3: The Taft Commission arrives in the Phillipines.
- June 14: The German Reichstag approves a law expanding the navy.
- June 19: Republican convention in Philadelphia nominates William McKinley for president.
- June 20: The Boxer Rebellion begins in China when the envoy of Germany is killed.
- June 21: General MacArthur grants amnesty to Filipino rebels.
July 1900
- July 2: Ferdinand Zeppelin flew the world's first untethered rigid airship, the LZ-1, in Germany.
- July 4: Democratic convention nominates William Jennings Bryan for president.
- July 9: Britain establishes the Commonwealth of Australia, effective January 1, 1901.
- July 16: Vladimir Lenin emigrates to Switzerland.
- July 17: Christy Matthewson debuts with the New York Giants baseball team.
- July 23: The 4 day New Orleans Race Riot which will kill 12 African Americans and 7 whites begins.
- July 29: King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated.
August 1900
- August 1: General labor strike in Puerto Rico.
- August 3: Wilbur Wright inquires about the suitability of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina for airplane field testing.
- August 14: Allied forces capture Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.
- August 23: Booker T. Washington founds the National Negro Business League in Boston.
- August 30: Shooting occurs between Americans and Canadians at Great Slave Lake over a trade dispute.
September 1900
- September 1: British forces annex Transvaal.
- September 2: Germany and the United States begin communicating via telegraph.
- September 6: Electric car sets speed record of 10 minutes 20 seconds on a 5 mile track in Rhode Island .
- September 7: The U.S. Philippine Commission takes over the government of the Philippines.
- September 8: Hurricane hits Galveston, Texas, killing 8,000 people.
October 1900
- October 9: An earthquake of magnitude 8.3 hits Cape Yakataga, Alaska.
- October 20: Wright brothers took first untethered manned flights in their glider.
- October 24: Winston Churchill wins his first seat in Parliament.
- October 28: Queen Victoria issues Letters Patent authorizing the Australian constitution.
- October 28: Summer Olympics end.
November 1900
- November 3: The first U.S. automobile show is held in New York City.
- November 6: William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan to be re-elected president of the U.S..
- November 6: Theodore Roosevelt elected 25th vice-president of the United States.
- November 8: Sister Carrie published by Theodore Dreiser.
- November 15: J.P. Morgan hosts an extravagant wedding for his daughter in New York City.
December 1900
- December 12: Winston Churchill joins the Liberal Party.
- December 14: Max Planck reveals his Quantum Theory.
- December 18: Narrow gauge railway opens in Victoria, Australia.
- December 23: Reginald Fessenden makes the first wireless radio broadcast near Washington, DC.
- December 25: Edmund Barton announces the ministry for the first government of Australia.
1900 Births
- January 1: Xavier Cugat
- January 27: Hyman Rickover
- February 5: Adlai Stevenson
- February 11: Hans-Georg Gadamer
- March 6: Lefty Grove
- March 19: Frederic Joliot
- March 23: Erich Fromm
- April 5: Spencer Tracy
- April 23: Jim Bottomley
- April 26: Hack Wilson
- May 5: Nacha Rivkin
- May 22: Clyde Tolson
- June 17: Martin Bormann
- June 25: Lord Mountbatten
- June 29: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- August 3: Ernie Pyle
- August 3: John T. Scopes
- August 4: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
- September 7: Taylor Caldwell
- September 8: Claude Pepper
- September 17: J. Willard Marriott
- September 24: Stephen D. Bechtel
- October 3: Thomas Wolfe
- October 7: Heinrich Himmer
- October 10: Helen Hayes
- October 14: W. Edwards Deming
- October 17: Jean Arthur
- October 31: Ethel Waters
- November 8: Margaret Mitchell
- November 14: Aaron Copland
- November 20: Chester Gould
- December 6: Agnes Moorehead
1900 Deaths
- March 18: John Luther "Casey" Jones
- April 14: Osman Nuri
- June 5: Stephen Crane
- July 7: Warren Earp
- August 25: Friedrich Nietzsche
- September 23: William Marsh Rice
- September 25: Jesse Lazear
- November 30: Oscar Wilde
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