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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