The Year of 1900 - The Year 1900

All the Events of the Year 1900, Month by Month, Day by Day. From January 1 1900 To December 31 1900.
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February 3 1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky. Former-Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.

 


February 3 1900 - Strikers in Aachen, Vienna and Brussels demand an 8 hour working day and higher wages.

 


February 5 1900 - Britain and the USA sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua

 


February 6 1900 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

 


February 7 1900 - The British Labour Party is formed.

 


February 8 1900 - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.

 


February 9 1900 - Richard Wigginton Thompson, U.S. congressman, dies.

 


February 11 1900 - Second Boer War: Colonel Hannay begins invasion of Orange Free State with march from Orange River to Ramdam

 


February 12 1900 - Meeting held in Mile End, London to protest against the Second Boer War ends in uproar

 


February 14 1900 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.

 


February 14 1900 - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

 


February 16 1900 - Appearance of "Savrola (A Tale of Revolution in Laurania)", the first novel of Winston Spencer Churchill

 


February 17 1900 - Battle of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.

 


February 18 1900 - Harry Vardon becomes world golf champion

 


February 18 1900 - A man claims that X-rays have cured his cancer.

 


February 19 1900 - German Minister of Navy says the German fleet "must be strong enough to ensure it's mastery of the North Sea

 


February 22 1900 - Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the United States.

 


February 23 1900 - Second Boer War: Battle of Hart's Hill - In South Africa the Boers and British troops battle.

 


February 26 1900 - The Grand Theatre, Islington is destroyed by fire

 


February 27 1900 - Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.

 


February 27 1900 - Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed British Labour Party.