1900 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1900?
- January 2, 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
- January 16, 1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- January 29, 1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
- January 31, 1900 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 1900 – The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
- February 23, 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
- March 24, 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- April 2, 1900 – The Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
- April 30, 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- May 17, 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
- June 9, 1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
- June 14, 1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- June 21, 1900 – Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departed Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
- July 27, 1900 – Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, “Hun” would be a disparaging name for Germans.
- September 8, 1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- October 25, 1900 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- December 14, 1900 – Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
- December 26, 1900 – A relief crew arrives the the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
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