1900 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1900?
- January 2, 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
- January 23, 1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.
- January 31, 1900 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rat in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- April 30, 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
- May 24, 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- June 5, 1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
- June 9, 1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure in the Indian independence movement, dies in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
- June 18, 1900 – Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
- June 20, 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
- June 21, 1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declared war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Dowager Empress Cixi.
- 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.
- September 17, 1900 – Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- November 7, 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
- December 18, 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
- 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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