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Use mdy dates|date=March 2011Year dab|1900Year nav|1900C19 year in topic NOTOC Year 1900 ( Roman numerals|MCM ) was an Leap year#Long term leap year rules|exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar . As a result, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian until Wednesday, February 28 ( Old Style|O.S. February 16 ) and has been 13 days behind since Thursday, March 1 ( Old Style|O.S. February 17 ). It was the 1900th year of the Anno Domini or the Common Era designation, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium , and the last year of the 19th century but the first year of the 1900s (decade)|1900s .
Events
January
Main|January 1900
January 1 & ndash; Hawaii asks for a delegate at the U.S. Republican National Convention .
January 2
* The first electric bus becomes operational in New York City .
* U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China .
January 3 & ndash; The United States Census estimates the country's population to be about 70 million people.
January 4 & ndash; Strikes in Belgium and Germany lead to mining riots.
January 5
* The Ireland|Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against United Kingdom|British rule.
* Dr. Henry Augustus Rowland|Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins University announces a theory about the cause of the Earth 's magnetism .
January 6 & ndash; Second Boer War : Boer s attack the town of Ladysmith, South Africa , killing over 1,000 people.
January 8 & ndash; President of the U.S.|President William McKinley of the United States places Alaska under military governance.
January 9 & ndash; The first through passenger train goes from Cairo to Khartoum .
* The U.S. Senate accepts the United Kingdom|British - Germany|German treaty of 1899 , in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands .
January 17 & ndash; Brigham H. Roberts of Utah is not seated by the U.S. House of Representatives because of his polygamy|plural marriage .
January 23 & ndash; 5,000 Austria n miners go on strike.
January 24 & ndash; The Second Boer War : At the Battle of Spion Kop , Boer troops defeat the British Army .
January 26 & ndash; The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney , Australia , with plans to form a Federal Labor Party. This is spelled "Labor" even in Australia.
January 27 & ndash; Boxer Rebellion : Foreign diplomats in Peking , China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
January 29 & ndash; The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams.
January 30 & ndash; Governor William Goebel of Kentucky shot by several assassins.
February
Main|February 1900
February 1 & ndash; Western Australia announced its refusal to join the Australian Federation unless it is given five more years of fiscal freedom.
February 3
* Governors of Kentucky|Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30. Goebel, who had prevailed in a dispute over the winner of the election in November 1899, had been sworn in on his deathbed. The former Secretary of State of Kentucky Caleb Powers is later found guilty in the conspiracy to kill Goebel.
* Strikers in Aachen , Vienna , and Brussels demand an eight-hour working day and higher wages.
February 5
* The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Nicaragua Canal|Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua .
* Second Boer War : The British House of Commons ' vote of censure over the British government 's handling of the war is defeated.
February 6 & ndash; The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands ' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 8 & ndash; Second Boer War : United Kingdom|British troops are defeated by the Boer s at Ladysmith, South Africa|Ladysmith .
February 9 & ndash; Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
February 14 & ndash; Second Boer War & ndash; Battle of Paardeberg : 20,000 United Kingdom|British troops invade the Orange Free State .
February 15 & ndash; Second Boer War : The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.
February 17 & ndash; Second Boer War : Battle of Paardeberg : British troops defeat the Boers.
February 27
* The Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party is formed.
* Second Boer War : United Kingdom|British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje .
* Ramsay MacDonald is appointed secretary of the newly formed British Labour Party .
* FC Bayern Munich , football club, is founded.
March
Main|March 1900
March 2 (beginning) & ndash; Groups of officials inspect towns around Australia in order to find a location the new Federal capital.
March 5 & ndash; Two U.S. Navy cruisers are sent to Central America to protect American interests in a dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica .
March 6
* "Baby-farmer" Ada Williams (murderer)|Ada Williams is hanged at Newgate Prison for murdering a 21-month old girl.
* A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.
March 7 & ndash; A fire at Buckingham Palace destroys part of its roof.
March 8 & ndash; London ers celebrate as Queen Victoria makes a rare visit to the city.
March 9 & ndash; Women in Germany demand the right to participate in university entrance exams.
March 14 & ndash; The botanist Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendelian inheritance|Mendel's Laws of Heredity .
March 15 & ndash; The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard .
March 16 & ndash; The British (people)|British archaeologist Arthur Evans|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 24 & ndash; The Mayor of New York , Van Wyck, breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad " that will link Manhattan with Brooklyn, NY|Brooklyn .
March 27 & ndash; The arrival of a Russia n naval fleet in Korea causes concern to the Imperial Japan ese government.
March 28 & ndash; Over 1,000 tonne s of waste are removed from demolished buildings in Sydney, Australia , in areas affected by an outbreak of the bubonic plague .
March 31 & ndash; In France, the length of a legal workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours.
April
Main|April 1900
April 1
* The Irish Guards are formed by Queen Victoria .
* George I of Greece|King George of Greece becomes absolute monarch of Crete .
April 4 & ndash; An anarchist shoots at the Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Prince of Wales during his visit to Belgium .
April 14 & ndash; The Paris Exhibition of 1900|Paris World Exhibition opens.
April 22 & ndash; Battle of Kousséri : French forces secure their domination of Chad . Warlord Rabih az-Zubayr is defeated and killed.
April 26 & ndash; The 1900 Hull-Ottawa fire|Great Lumber Fire of Ottawa, Ontario|Ottawa – Hull, Quebec|Hull kills 7 and leaves 15,000 homeless.
April 30 & ndash; Hawaii becomes an official U.S. Organized territory|territory .
May
Main|May 1900
May 1 & ndash; An explosion of blasting powder in coal mine in Scofield, Utah kills 200.
May 14 & ndash; The second Modern Olympic Games opens in Paris (as part of the Paris Exhibition of 1900|Paris World Exhibition ).
May 17
* Second Boer War : United Kingdom|British troops relieve the Siege of Mafeking|Mafeking .
* Boxer Rebellion : Boxers destroy 3 villages near Peking and kill 60 Chinese Christians.
May 18 & ndash; The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga .
May 21 & ndash; Russia invades Manchuria .
May 23 & ndash; Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in 1863 , as the first African American to have been awarded this medal.
May 24 & ndash; Second Boer War : The British annex the Orange Free State as the Orange River Colony .
May 28 & ndash; Boxer Rebellion : The Boxers attack Belgium|Belgian s in the Fengtai railway station.
May 29 & ndash; N'Djamena , the capital city of Chad , is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil .
May 31 & ndash; Boxer Rebellion : Peacekeepers from various European countries arrive in China .
June
Main|June 1900
June 1 & ndash; Carrie Nation begins her crusade to demolish saloons.
June 5 & ndash; Second Boer War : United Kingdom|British soldiers take Pretoria .
June 14 & ndash; The Reichstag (German Empire)|Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy .
June 20 & ndash; Boxer Rebellion : Boxers gather about 20,000 people near Peking and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
June 30 & ndash; A 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire|wharf fire at the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey owned by the North German Lloyd Steamship line spreads to German passenger ship s SS|Saale||2, SS|Main||2, and SS|Bremen|1897|2. The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.
July
Main|July 1900
July 2 & ndash; The first zeppelin flight is carried out over Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen , Germany .
July 5 & ndash; The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passes the British Parliament .
July 9 & ndash; Queen Victoria gives her royal assent to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act.
July 12 & ndash; A Germany|German cruise liner , the SS Deutschland (1900)|SS Deutschland , breaks the record for the Blue Riband for the first time with an average speed of convert|22.4|kn|km/h.
July 19 & ndash; The Paris Métro Line 1|first line of the Paris Métro is opened.
July 25 & ndash; The Robert Charles Riots break out in New Orleans, Louisiana .
July 29 & ndash; King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the Italy|Italian -born anarchist Gaetano Bresci .
August
Main|August 1900
August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon the Queen Mother was Born in London .
August 14 & ndash; Boxer Rebellion : An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europe ans taken hostage.
September
Main|September 1900
September 8 & ndash; A powerful tropical cyclone|hurricane Galveston Hurricane of 1900|hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
September 13 & ndash; Philippine-American War : Filipino resistance fighters defeat a large American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa .
September 17 & ndash; Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat the Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac .
September 25 & ndash; In the United Kingdom general election, 1900|British general election , the recently formed Labour Party gains two seats. Winston Churchill is also elected to Parliament for the first time.
October
Main|October 1900
November
Main|November 1900
November 3 & ndash; The first automobile Auto show|show in the United States opens at New York City 's Madison Square Garden (1890)|Madison Square Garden .
November 6 & ndash; U.S. presidential election, 1900 : United States Republican Party|Republican incumbent William McKinley is reelected by defeating United States Democratic Party|Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan .
December
Main|December 1900
December 7 & ndash; Max Planck announces his discovery of the law of black body emission, marking the birth of quantum physics .
Date unknown
U.S. New Haven, CT Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch makes the first modern-day hamburger sandwich .
Japan participates with the European powers in occupying Beijing to suppress the Boxer Rebellion .
Guangzhouwan|Kouang-Tchéou-Wan added to French Indochina .
First Michelin Guide published.
Civil service consists of fewer than 3,500 top officials for a population of 300 million in India .
4 out of every 1,000 residents of British India die of cholera each year.
