1900 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1900?
- January 2, 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
- January 6, 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
- January 31, 1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
- February 3, 1900 – Governor of Kentucky William Goebel dies of wound sustained in an assassination attempt three days earlier in Frankfort, Kentucky.
- February 18, 1900 – Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
- February 23, 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart’s Hill.
- February 27, 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
- March 7, 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
- March 16, 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
- 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 5, 1900 – Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
- May 23, 1900 – American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
- June 5, 1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- June 14, 1900 – The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
- July 2, 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- July 19, 1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
- September 8, 1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- December 14, 1900 – Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
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