Year (''' MCM ''') was an Exceptional Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar , but a Leap Year Starting On Saturday
"Calendar in year 1900 (Russia)" (Julian on Saturday), webpage:
Julian-1900
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919 ).
of the Julian Calendar . As a result, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian calendar until Wednesday, February 28 ( O.S. February 16 ) and has been 13 days behind since Thursday, March 1 ( O.S. February 17 ).
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in 1900.]]
- February 1 - Western Australia refuses to join the Federation unless given 5 years of fiscal freedom.
- February 2 - First performance of Gustave Charpentier 's opera, ''Louise'' .
- February 3
- ---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.
- ---Strikers in Aachen , Vienna and Brussels demand an 8 hour working day and higher wages.
- February 5
- --- Britain and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua .
- ---The British House Of Commons vote of censure over the Britain 's handling of the Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
- February 6 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands ' Senate ratifies an 1899 Peace Conference decree.
- February 8 - British troops are defeated by Boer s at Ladysmith , South Africa .
- February 9 - Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup Tennis tournament.
- with march from Orange River to Ramdam .
- February 12 - Meeting held in Mile End , London to protest against the Second Boer War ends in uproar.
- February 14
- --- Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
- ---Second Boer War: In South Africa , 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
- February 16 - Appearance of "Savrola (A Tale of Revolution in Laurania)", the first (and only) Novel of Winston Spencer Churchill .
- February 17 - Battle Of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.
- February 18
- --- Harry Vardon becomes world Golf champion.
- ---A man claims that X-ray s have cured his cancer.
- February 19 - Alfred Von Tirpitz says the German fleet "must be strong enough to ensure its mastery of the North Sea ".
- February 23
- ---Second Boer War: Battle Of Hart's Hill - In South Africa the Boer s and British troops battle.
- ---The Bubonic Plague in Australia continues to cause deaths - last case reported was fatal.
- February 26 - The Grand Theatre , Islington is destroyed by fire.
- February 27
- ---The British Labour Party is formed.
- ---Boer War: In South Africa , British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje .
- --- Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed British Labour Party .
- February 28 - British forces are reinforced in Ladysmith by the arrival of Cavalry as the Boers began to retreat.
- August 14 - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
- August 27 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
- World Population : 1,650,000,000
- --- Africa : 133,000,000
- --- Asia : 947,000,000
- --- Europe : 408,000,000
- --- Latin-America : 74,000,000
- --- Northern America : 82,000,000
- --- Oceania : 6,000,000
- January 1 - Mildred Davis , American actress (d. 1969 )
- January 2 - William Haines , American actor (d. 1973 )
- January 4 - James Bond (ornithologist) (d. 1989 )
- January 5 - Yves Tanguy , French painter (d. 1955 )
- January 16 - Edith Frank , German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945 )
- January 25 - Theodosius Dobzhansky , Geneticist, evolutionary biologist (d. 1975 )
- January 23 - William Ifor Jones , Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988 )
- January 26 - Karl Ristenpart , German conductor (d. 1967 )
- January 27 - Hyman Rickover , American admiral (d. 1986 )
- January 30 - Martita Hunt , actress (d. 1969 )
- February 4 - Jacques Prévert , French lyricist and author (d. 1977 )
- February 5 - Adlai Stevenson , American politician (d. 1965 )
- February 11 - Hans-Georg Gadamer , German philosopher (d. 2002 )
- February 12 - Roger J. Traynor , American judge (d. 1983 )
- February 19 - Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
- February 22 - Luis Buñuel , Spanish film director (d. 1983 )
- February 28 - Wolfram Hirth , German pilot and aircraft designer (d. 1959 )
- March 4 - Herbert Biberman , Jewish American screenwriter and film director (d. 1971 )
- March 9 - Howard Aiken , American computing pioneer (d. 1973 )
- March 19 - Frédéric Joliot , French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Chemistry (d. 1958 )
- March 23 - Erich Fromm , German-born psychologist and philosopher (d. 1980 )
- March 29 - John McEwen , eighteenth Prime Minister Of Australia (d. 1980 )
- March 31 - Prince Henry, Duke Of Gloucester (d. 1974 )
- April 2 - Roberto Arlt , Argentine writer (d. 1942 )
- April 5 - Spencer Tracy , American actor (d. 1967 )
- April 16 - Polly Adler , Russian author (d. 1962)
- April 25 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli , Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958 )
- April 26 - Charles Richter , American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985 )
- April 27 – August Koern , Estonian statesman and diplomat (d. 1989 )
- April 30 - Cecily Lefort , English World War II heroine (executed) (d. 1945 )
- May 1 - Ignazio Silone , Italian author (d. 1978 )
- May 12 - Helene Weigel , Austrian actress (d. 1971 )
- May 15 - Zheng Ji , Chinese nutritionist and biochemist
- May 17 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , leader of Iran (d. 1989 )
- May 27 - Uładzimir Zylka , Belarusian poet (d. 1933 )
- May 28 - Tommy Ladnier , American jazz trumpeter (heart attack) (d. 1939 )
- June 3 - Rolland Fisher , American temperance activist (d. 1982 )
- June 4 - George Watkins , owner of Rookie MLB Batting Average record (d. 1970 )
- June 5 - Dennis Gabor , Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979 )
- June 7 - Glen Gray , American saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963 )
- June 15 - Paul Mares , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1949 )
- June 29 - Antoine De Saint-Exupery , French pilot and writer (d. 1944 )
- July 4 - Robert Desnos , French poet (d. 1945 )
- July 6 - Frederica Sagor Maas , American playwright, essayist and author
- July 13 - George Lewis , American jazz clarinetist (d. 1968 )
- July 29 - Eyvind Johnson , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976 )
- August 3 - Ernie Pyle , American journalist (d. 1945 )
- August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , queen of George VI Of The United Kingdom (d. 2002 )
- August 6 - Cecil H. Green , British-born geophysicist and businessman (d. 2003 )
- August 10 - Arthur Espie Porritt , New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994 )
- August 11 - Philip Phillips , American archaeologist (d. 1994 )
- August 18 - Glenn Albert Black , American archaeologist (d. 1964 )
- August 19 - Colleen Moore , American actress (d. 1988 )
- August 19 - Gilbert Ryle , British philosopher (d. 1976 )
- August 22 - Sergei Ozhegov , Russian lexicographer (d. 1964 )
- August 25 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1981 )
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter , German engineer and inventor (d. 1980 )
- September 3 - Urho Kekkonen , President Of Finland (d. 1986 )
- September 6 - W.A.C. Bennett , Canadian politician (d. 1979 )
- September 22 - Paul H. Emmett , American chemical engineer (d. 1985 )
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson , Ukrainian-born American sculptor (d. 1988 )
- September 28 - Boris Efimov , Russian political cartoonist and propaganda artist
- September 29 - Auguste Van Pels , German-Dutch mother of Peter Van Pels , housemate of Anne Frank (d. 1945 )
- October 1 - Tom Goddard , English cricketer (d. 1966 )
- October 6 - Stan Nichols , English cricketer (d. 1961 )
- October 7 - Heinrich Himmler , Nazi official (d. 1945 )
- October 30 - Ragnar Granit , Finnish neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1991 )
- November 4 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu , Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954 )
- November 5
- --- Martin Dies, Jr. , American politician (d. 1972 )
- --- Natalie Schafer , American actress (d. 1991 )
- November 8
- --- Charlie Paddock , American athlete (d. 1943 )
- --- Margaret Mitchell , American writer (d. 1949 )
- November 11 - Halina Konopacka , Polish athlete (d. 1989 )
- November 13 - David Marshall Williams , American inventor (d. 1975 )
- November 14 - Aaron Copland , American composer (d. 1990 )
- November 16 - Nikolai Pogodin , Soviet playwright (d. 1962 )
- December 3
- --- Ulrich Inderbinen , Swiss mountain guide (d. 2004 )
- --- Richard Kuhn , Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967 )
- December 4 - John Axon , British railwayman (d. 1957 )
- December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr. , American dancer (d. 1988 )
- December 20 - Marinus Van Der Goes Van Naters , Dutch politician, At the time of his death in Wassenaar at the age of 104 he was the longest lived politician on record in the world.(d. 2005 )
::''(See 1900 list of deaths by name: .)''
- January 20 - John Ruskin , English writer and social critic (b. 1819 )
- January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess Of Queensberry , Scottish nobleman and boxer (b. 1844 )
- February 18 - Clinton L. Merriam , American politician (b. 1824 )
- March 6 - Gottlieb Daimler , German inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1834 )
- March 6 - Carl Bechstein , German Pianoforte maker. (b. 1826 )
- April 5 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand , French mathematician (b. 1822 )
- April 19 - James Dawson , Aboriginal Guardian (b. 1806 )
- April 24 - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke Of Argyll , British politician (b. 1823 )
- April 30 - Casey Jones , American railway engineer (b. 1864 )
- May 18 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien , French philosopher (b. 1813 )
- June 3 - Mary Kingsley , English explorer and writer (b. 1862 )
- June 5 - Stephen Crane , American author (b. 1871 )
- June 11 - Belle Boyd , American Confederate spy and actress (b. 1843 )
- July 8 - Henry D. Cogswell , American philanthropist (b. 1820 )
- July 29 - Umberto I , King Of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844 )
- July 31 - Alfred, Duke Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha , second eldest son of Queen Victoria (b. 1844 )
- August 10 - Charles Russell, Baron Russell Of Killowen , Lord Chief Justice Of England (b. 1832 )
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz , Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836 )
- August 16 - José Maria Eça De Queiroz , Portuguese writer (b. 1845 )
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher and writer (b. 1844 )
- August 25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka , Prime Minister Of Japan (b. 1840 )
- September 23 - William Marsh Rice , American philanthropist and university founder (murdered) (b. 1816 )
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary , American politician (b. 1814 )
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich , Czech composer (b. 1850 )
- October 22 - John Sherman , American politician (b. 1823 )
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan . English composer (b. 1842 )
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde , Irish writer (b. 1854 )
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