1899

Year '1899' ('MDCCCXCIX') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday ^[1]
of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar).
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Although popular belief holds this year as the last of the Nineteenth century, 1900 was in fact technically the true last year.

Contents

Events of 1899

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Notes

Events of 1899

January - March

★ January 1

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★ End of Spanish rule in Cuba.

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★ Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City.

★ January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes Viceroy of India.

★ January 10 - Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity is founded at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.

★ January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island.

★ January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.

★ January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business.

★ January 22 - The leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss the confederation of Australia as a whole.

★ January 24 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan.


★ February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.

★ February 4 - Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila.

★ February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.

★ February 12-14 - Great Blizzard of 1899: Freezing temperatures and snow extend well south into North America, including southern Florida. Many areas in the Southeast United States achieve all-time record minimum temperatures that hold for decades, if not to the present day. It is the latest in a series of disasters to Florida's citrus industry.

★ February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.

★ February 16 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur established. The first football club in Iceland.


★ March 1 - In Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.

★ March 2 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.

★ March 4 - Cyclone ''Mahina'' sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.


★ March 6

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★ Felix Hoffmann patents Aspirin.

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★ Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.

★ March 8 - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for Eintracht Frankfurt is founded

★ March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.

April - June

★ June 12 - A tornado completely destroys the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin, killing 117 and injuring more than 200

★ June 22–June 27 - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by A. E. J. Collins.

★ June 25 - Three Denver, Colorado newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government under the Guangxu Emperor is going to demolish the Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication.

★ June 27 The paperclip was first patented by Johan Vaaler, a Norwegian inventor.[1]

★ June 30 - Mile-a-Minute Murphy earned his famous nickname this day after he became the first man to ride a bicycle for one mile in under a minute on Long Island.

July - September

★ July 17

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★ America's first juvenile court is established in Chicago.

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★ NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

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★ The French Bretonnet-Braun mission is destroyed in the battle of Togbao, in Chad, by the warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

★ July 19 - The Newsboys Strike takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2). more info

★ July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention.

★ September 13 - Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

★ September 19 - Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned.

October - December

★ October 11 - Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.

★ October 30 - Augusta, KY Augusta High School Building is completed. Augusta Methodist College shuts down.

★ November 4 - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

★ November 8 - The Bronx Zoo opens.

★ November 16 - Lithuanian doctor, poet, and national hero Vincas Kudirka dies of tuberculosis at age 40.

★ December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.

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★ During the new moon on December 2-3, 1899, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occurred. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn were all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction were Uranus (technically visible unaided in pollution-free skies), Ceres and Pallas.

★ December 16 - A.C. Milan, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.

★ December 16 - Augusta, KY Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure.

★ December 26 - Battle of Mafeking begins.

★ December 31 - A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over, the last time this has happened.

Undated

★ David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book ''Grundlagen der geometrie''.

★ Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

★ International Council of Nurses is founded.

★ San Pellegrino is first bottled.

★ The significance of oracle bones is discovered.

★ Kmart is founded.

★ The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Manteo, which was originally laid out as the Dare county seat in 1870.

★ Scott Joplin composes Maple Leaf Rag, known as one of the most famous ragtime pieces of all time.

Births

January - June

★ January 1 - Jack Beresford, British olympist (d.1977)

★ January 6 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automotive engineer, managing director of Volkswagen (d. 1968)

★ January 7 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)

★ January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, English actress (d. 1991)

★ January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)

★ January 15 - Goodman Ace, American actor, comedian, and writer (d. 1982)

★ January 17

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★ Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)

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★ Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)

★ January 21 - John Bodkin Adams, suspected British serial killer (d. 1983)

★ January 30 - Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

★ February 3

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★ Doris Speed, British actress (d. 1994)

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★ Lao She, Chinese author (d. 1966)

★ February 6 - Ramón Novarro, Mexican actor (d. 1968)

★ February 7 - Earl Whitehill, baseball player (d. 1954)

★ February 15

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★ Georges Auric, French composer (d. 1983)

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★ Gale Sondergaard, American actress (d. 1985)

★ February 22

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★ George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)

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★ Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)

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★ Ian Clunies Ross, Australian scientist, first chair of CSIRO(d. 1959)

★ February 23 - Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974)

★ February 26

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★ Alec Campbell, Australian solider who fought in the Battle of Gallipoli (d. 2002)

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★ Max Petitpierre, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1994)

★ February 27 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (d. 1978)

★ March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)

★ March 13 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)

★ March 18 - Jean Goldkette, French-born musician (d. 1962)

★ March 24 - Dorothy C. Stratton, director of the SPARS during World War II (d. 2006)

★ March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)

★ March 28 - Harold B. Lee, eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1973)

★ March 29 - Lavrenty Beria, Soviet official (d. 1953)

★ April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian fascist leader (d. 1968)

★ April 7 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972)

★ April 21 - Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (d. 1975)

★ April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (d. 1977)

★ April 23 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)

★ April 24 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)

★ April 27 - Walter Lantz, animated character (d. 1994}

★ April 29 - Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)

★ May 8 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)

★ May 10

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★ Fred Astaire, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1987)

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★ Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)

★ May 12 - Indra Devi, Baltic-born yogi and actress (d. 2002)

★ May 15 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)

★ May 24 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)

★ June 1 - Edward Charles Titchmarsh, British mathematician (d. 1963)

★ June 2 - Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (d. 1981)

★ June 3 - Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

★ June 12 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)

★ June 13 - Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (d. 1978)

★ June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)

★ June 27 - Juan Trippe, airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (d. 1981)

★ June 30 - Harry Shields, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1971)

July - December

★ July 5 - Marcel Achard, French play and scriptwriter (d. 1974)

★ July 7 - George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)

★ July 10 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)

★ July 11 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)

★ July 15 - Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)

★ July 17 - James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)

★ July 21

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★ Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)

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★ Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)

★ July 22 - King Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)

★ August 4 - Ezra Taft Benson, thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)

★ August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (d. 1980)

★ August 24

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★ Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)

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★ Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1983)

★ August 29 -

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★ Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (d. 1988)

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★ Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)

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★ August 30 - Ray Arcel, American boxing trainer, was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (d.1994)

★ September 1 - Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, Russian-born writer of the Soviet period (d. 1951)

★ September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985)

★ September 9

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★ Brassaï, French photographer (d. 1984)

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★ Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)

★ September 13 - Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian fascist politician, leader of the Iron Guard (d. 1938)

★ September 21 - Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1986)

★ October 1 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)

★ October 3 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)

★ October 19 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

★ October 20 - Evelyn Brent, American actress (d. 1975)

★ November 15

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★ Avdy Andresson, Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. 1990)

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★ Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)

★ November 17 - Douglas Shearer, film sound engineer (d. 1971)

★ November 18 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (d. 1985)

★ November 21 - Jobyna Ralston, American actress (d. 1967)

★ December 2 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (d. 1970)

★ December 3 - Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)

★ December 9 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (d. 1937)

★ December 15 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)

★ December 16 - Noel Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973)

★ December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. 1990)

★ December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)

★ December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (d. 1943)

★ December 29 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (d. 1992)

★ ''date unknown'' - Friedrich Panse, German psychiatrist (d. 1973)
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Deaths

January - June

★ January 23 - Romualdo Pacheco, Governor of California (b. 1831)

★ February 6

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★ Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)

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★ Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (b. 1874)

★ February 16 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)

★ February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born news agency founder (b. 1816)

★ March 6 - Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. 1875)

★ April 5 - T. E. Ellis, Welsh politician (b. 1859)

★ June 3 - Johann Strauss, Jr., Austrian composer (b. 1825)

★ June 10 - Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)

July - December

★ July 18 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American writer (b. 1832)

★ July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician (b. 1833)

★ August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)

★ September 12 - Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American railway magnate (b. 1843)

★ September 17 - Charles Alfred Pillsbury, industrialist (b. 1842)

★ October 2 - Percy Pilcher, aviation pioneer & glider pilot, (b. 1866)

★ October 30 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1816)

★ November 21 - Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (b. 1844)

★ November 24 - Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. 1846)

★ December 10 - King Ngwane V of Swaziland (b. 1876)

★ December 22 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (b. 1837)
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Notes

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"Calendar in year 1899 (Russia)" (Julian calendar, starting Tuesday), webpage:
Julian-1899
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).