1900s — in der Geschichte
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1900
The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
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1900
Das US-Kongress verabschiedet den Foraker Act, der Puerto Rico eine begrenzte Selbstverwaltung einräumt.
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1900
American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
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1900
Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
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1900
Hopetoun-Desaster: Der erste Generalgouverneur Australiens John Hope, 7. Earl of Hopetoun, ernannt Sir William Lyne zum Premierminister des neuen Staates New South Wales, kann aber andere Kolonialpolitiker nicht überreden, seiner Regierung beizutreten und muss selbst zurücktreten.
Hopetoun Blunder · Governor-General of Australia · John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
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1900
The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
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1900
The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
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1900
The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria · Gembrook, Victoria · Glossary of rail transport terms
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1900
The Davis Cup competition is established.
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1900
Das Vereinigte Königreich annektiert das Transvaal.
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1900
Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
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1900
Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
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1900
The American League is organized in Philadelphia with eight founding teams.
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1900
Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
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1900
Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
Second Boer War · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Battle of Vaal Krantz
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1900
Archäologen entdecken in Knossos auf Kreta eine große Sammlung von Tonplatten mit hieroglyphischen Schriften in einem von ihnen Linear B genannten Schreibsystem.
Archaeology · Knossos · Crete
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1900
Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg: Der Sergeant William Harvey Carney wird für seine Tapferkeit im Angriff auf die Batterie Wagner im Jahr 1863 mit dem Ehrenpokal ausgezeichnet.
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1900
Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion.
Eight-Nation Alliance · Siege of the International Legations · Tianjin
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1900
Das ständige Schiedsgericht, ein internationales Schiedsgericht in Den Haag, wird geschaffen, als der Senat der Niederlande einen Friedenskonferenzbeschluss von 1899 ratifiziert.
Permanent Court of Arbitration · The Hague · Senate of the Netherlands
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1900
Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
Philippine-American War · Filipino people · Siege of Catubig
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1900
Zweiter Börsenkrieg: Schlacht von Leliefontein, in der die Royal Canadian Dragoons drei Victoria-Kreuze gewinnen.
Second Boer War · Battle of Leliefontein · Royal Canadian Dragoons
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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.
Second Boer War · Bloody Sunday (1900) · Battle of Paardeberg
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1900
Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
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1900
Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
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1900
Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.
Second Boer War · Siege of Ladysmith · Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
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1900
Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
Boxer Rebellion · Imperial Chinese Army · Siege of the International Legations
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1900
Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
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1900
The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
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1900
Max Planck entdeckt das Gesetz des schwarzen Körpers (Plancksches Gesetz).
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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.
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1900
Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
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1900
Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera
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1900
Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
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1900
Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
Eduard Toll · Russian polar expedition of 1900-02 · Saint Petersburg
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1900
The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
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1900
Der US-Senat akzeptiert den Anglo-Germanischen Vertrag von 1899, in dem das Vereinigte Königreich seine Ansprüche auf die Samoan-Inseln aufgibt.
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1900
Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
Second Boer War · Battle of Spion Kop · South African Republic
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1900
The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
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1900
Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835)
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1900
N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
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1900
The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
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1900
In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
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1900
Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
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1900
Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
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1900
Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
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1900
The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
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1900
The British Labour Party is founded.
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1900
Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
Boxer Rebellion · Eight-Nation Alliance · Battle of Taku Forts (1900)
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1900
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
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1900
Arthur Sullivan, English composer and scholar (b. 1842)
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1900
Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
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1900
Sir Arthur Evans erwarb das Land um die Ruinen von Knossos, den größten bronzezeitlichen archäologischen Ort auf Kreta.
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1900
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
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1900
Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (b. 1814)
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1900
Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
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1900
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (b. 1854)
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1900
Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
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1900
Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet and translator (b. 1846)
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1900
William Armstrong, 1. Baron Armstrong, englischer Ingenieur und Geschäftsmann, gründete Armstrong Whitworth (geb. 1810)
William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong · Armstrong Whitworth
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1900
The Exposition Universelle begins.
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1900
Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
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1900
David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
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1900
Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1835)[1]
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1900
British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
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1900
Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
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1900
Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
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1900
Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
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1900
The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
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1900
Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)
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1900
The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
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1900
The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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1900
Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
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1900
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
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1900
The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
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1900
Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (b. 1820)
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1900
Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
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1900
Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
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1900
Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1850)
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1900
Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846)
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1900
Betty Parsons, American artist, art dealer and collector (d. 1982) [1]
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1900
Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
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1900
Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)
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1900
Umberto I of Italy (b. 1844)
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1900
Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
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1900
Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
Thousand Days' War · Colombian Conservative Party · Colombian Liberal Party
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1900
Marta Abba, Italian actress (d. 1988)
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1900
Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist (d. 1945)
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1900
José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)