1899 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1899?
- January 1, 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
- January 17, 1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
- January 19, 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- January 22, 1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
- February 2, 1899 – The Australian Premiers’ Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia’s capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
- February 14, 1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
- March 4, 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland, killing over 300.
- March 6, 1899 – Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
- April 18, 1899 – The St. Andrew’s Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
- May 8, 1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens.
- May 30, 1899 – Female Old West outlaw Pearl Hart robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
- June 7, 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
- June 12, 1899 – New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
- July 17, 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
- July 29, 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
- September 13, 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
- October 11, 1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
- December 2, 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
- December 10, 1899 – Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
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