1899 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1899?
- January 1, 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
- January 12, 1899 – 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued from the stricken schooner Forest Hall by the Lynmouth Lifeboat when it floundered off the coast of Devon, England.
- January 19, 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
- January 21, 1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
- January 23, 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
- February 4, 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins.
- February 16, 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- June 27, 1899 – A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
- 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 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
- October 11, 1899 – The Western League is renamed the American League.
- December 2, 1899 – Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed “The Filipino Thermopylae”, is fought.
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