Events 1900

1 events

1.1 january
1.2 february
1.3 march
1.4 april
1.5 may
1.6 june
1.7 july
1.8 august
1.9 september
1.10 october
1.11 november
1.12 december
1.13 date unknown

events
january


january 2 – u.s. secretary of state john hay announces open door policy promote american trade china.
january 5 – dr. henry a. rowland of johns hopkins university announces theory cause of earth s magnetism.
january 6 – second boer war: boers attempt end siege of ladysmith, leads battle of platrand.
january 9 – s.s. lazio, italian professional sports club, founded in rome.
january 14

puccini s opera tosca premieres in rome, italy.
the u.s. senate accepts british-german treaty of 1899, in united kingdom renounced claims american samoa portion of samoan islands.




second boer war: boers @ spion kop, 1900



january 24 – second boer war: @ battle of spion kop, boer troops defeat british army.


boxer soldiers



january 27 – boxer rebellion: foreign diplomats in peking, qing dynasty china, demand boxer rebels disciplined.
january 31 – datu muhammad salleh, leader of mat salleh rebellion in north borneo, shot dead in tambunan.

february


february 5 – united kingdom , united states sign treaty building of central american shipping canal across central america in nicaragua.
february 6 – international arbitration court @ hague created when netherlands senate ratifies 1899 peace conference decree.
february 8 – second boer war: british troops defeated boers @ ladysmith.
february 14 – second boer war – battle of paardeberg: 20,000 british troops invade orange free state.
february 15 – second boer war: siege of kimberley lifted.
february 17 – second boer war: battle of paardeberg: british troops defeat boers.
february 27

fc bayern, germany s successful football club, founded in munich.
second boer war: british military leaders accept unconditional notice of surrender boer general piet cronjé.
british labour party, officially established @ meeting in congregational memorial hall in london.



march


march 5 – 2 u.s. navy cruisers sent central america protect american interests in dispute between nicaragua , costa rica.
march 6 – coal mine explosion in west virginia, u.s.a. kills 50 miners.
march 14 – botanist hugo de vries rediscovers mendel s laws of heredity.
march 15 – gold standard act ratified, placing united states currency on gold standard.
march 16 – british archaeologist sir arthur evans purchases land on crete on ruins of palace of knossos stand. begins unearth of palace 3 days later.
march 18 – afc ajax, successful football club in netherlands, founded in amsterdam.
march 27 – arrival of russian naval fleet in korea causes concern imperial japanese government.

april


exposition universelle view in paris



april 14 – paris world exhibition opens.
april 22 – battle of kousséri: french forces secure domination of chad. warlord rabih az-zubayr defeated , killed.

may


may 1 – scofield mine disaster: explosion of blasting powder in coal mine in scofield, utah kills 200.
may 14 – second modern olympic games opens in paris (as part of paris world exhibition).
may 17

second boer war: british army relieves siege of mafeking.
boxer rebellion: boxers destroy 3 villages near peking , kill sixty chinese christians.
l. frank baum s wonderful wizard of oz published in chicago, first of baum s oz books chronicling fictional land of oz children.


may 18 – united kingdom proclaims protectorate on tonga.
may 21 – russia invades manchuria.
may 24 – second boer war: british annex orange free state orange river colony.
may 28 – boxer rebellion: boxers attack belgians in fengtai railway station.
may 29 – n djamena, capital city of chad, founded fort-lamy french commander Émile gentil.
may 31 – boxer rebellion: peacekeepers various european countries arrive in china join japanese forces.

june


june 1 – american temperance agitator carrie nation begins crusade demolish saloons.
june 5 – second boer war: british soldiers take pretoria.
june 14 – reichstag approves second law allows expansion of imperial german navy
june 17 – boxer rebellion: battle of dagu forts: naval forces of eight-nation alliance capture taku forts on hai river estuary in china.
june 20 – boxer rebellion: boxers gather 20,000 people near peking , kill hundreds of european citizens, including german ambassador.
june 25 – taoist monk wang yuanlu discovers dunhuang manuscripts in mogao caves of dunhuang, china, have been sealed since 11th century.
june 30 – hoboken docks fire: wharf fire @ docks in hoboken, new jersey, owned north german lloyd steamship line spreads german passenger ships saale, main, , bremen. fire engulfs adjacent piers , nearby ships, killing 326 people.


july 9: australia, founded.


july


july 2 – first zeppelin flight carried out on lake constance near friedrichshafen, germany.
july 12 – german cruise liner ss deutschland breaks record blue riband first time average speed of 22.4 knots (41.5 km/h).
july 23-25 – first pan-african conference held in london.
july 29 – king umberto of italy assassinated italian-born anarchist gaetano bresci.

august


august 4 – elizabeth bowes-lyon, later queen elizabeth queen mother, born in london
august 14 – boxer rebellion: international contingent of troops, under british command, invades peking , frees europeans taken hostage.

september


september 8 – 1900 galveston hurricane kills 6,000–12,000 people.
september 12 – admiral fredrik von otter becomes prime minister of sweden.
september 13 – philippine–american war: filipino resistance fighters defeat detachment of american soldiers in battle of pulang lupa.
september 17 – philippine–american war: filipinos under juan cailles defeat americans under colonel benjamin f. cheatham @ battle of mabitac.

october

october 9 - cook islands become territory of united kingdom.
october 19 - max planck discovers law of black-body radiation (planck s law).
october 25 - united kingdom annexes transvaal.

november


november 29 – herbert kitchener succeeds frederick roberts commander-in-chief of british forces in south africa , implements scorched earth strategy.

december


december 14 – max planck announces discovery of law of black body emission, marking birth of quantum physics.
december 27 – british human rights activist emily hobhouse arrives in cape town.
december 31 – large standing stone @ stonehenge falls over, recent time has happened.

date unknown

australasian prospector albert fuller ellis identifies phosphate deposits on pacific islands of nauru , banaba island (ocean island).
in new haven, connecticut, u.s., louis lassen of louis lunch makes first modern-day hamburger sandwich.
first michelin guide published in france.
karl landsteiner develops system of blood grouping




^ pakenham 1979