Year 1900 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1900

The year 1900 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1900 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
19 May	The then-largest rail tunnel in the world was open to passengers, connected by the Italy-Switzerland route.
19 July	The first metro rail ran in Paris, the capital of France. The world's first metro service had started in London.
08 September	A cyclone and tidal storm killed 6000 people in Galveston, Texas, USA.
19 October	The German scientist Max Planck proposed the 'Planck's law'. It is also called the rule of 'black body emission'.
08 August	The first Davis Cup series began in Boston.
27 January	German researcher Felix Hafmann made pain medicine for the first time. This drug is currently called aspirin.
03 March	A German scientist named Kotleb Diemler died at the age of 64. He succeeded in making motorcycles.
02 January	US Secretary of State John He announced an open door policy to boost US trade with China.
05 February	The United Kingdom and the United States signed a treaty in Central America, Nicaragua, to construct a Central American shipping canal.
06 March	West Virginia, USA In a coal mine explosion in which 50 miners were killed.
14 April	Paris World Exhibition opens.
17 May	Three Chinese villages within 100 miles of Peking were burned by Boxers in China, killing 60 Chinese and Christian citizens.
14 June	The Reichstag approved a new law, allowing the expansion of the Imperial German Navy.
04 July	Williams nominates Bryan as Democratic Party presidential candidate in USA.
03 August	The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was established.
08 September	6,000–12,000 people died from the 1900 Galveston storm.
19 October	Painter Henry O Tanner won the Medal of Honor at the Paris Exhibition.
08 November	Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" was published.
27 December	British human rights activist Emily Hobhouse came to Cape Town.
14 January	Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanza in Rome.
24 January	Second Boer War: Boer forces stopped a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
31 January	Datu Muhammad Salleh, leader of a series of major disturbances in North Borneo, was shot dead in Tambunan, but his followers did not give up for five more years.
15 February	Second Boer War—British cavalry under Major-General John French defeated Boer forces, ending the 124-day siege of Kimberley in present-day South Africa.
15 February	Second Boer War: British cavalry under Major-General John French defeated Boer forces to end a 124-day siege of Kimberley, present-day South Africa.
27 February	FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, wasfounded by eleven players led by Franz John.
05 April	Archaeologists, led by Arthur Evans in Cretos, Natos, discovered a large amount of earthen pills, using a writingmican Greek known as script B.
29 May	N 'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was established as Fort-Lammy Buffren's Commander .Mile Mentil.
17 June	Boxer rebellion-consecrated naval forces captured a brief but bloody battle on Taku Fortsahar.
17 June	Boxer rebellion-consecrated naval forces captured a brief but bloody battle on Taku Fortsahar.
20 June	Boxer Rebellion-Empiry Chinese Army began a 55-day siege of lease quarters in Beijing.
21 June	China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan. It was an anti-imperial rebellion, which turned to the end of the King dynasty between 1899 and 1901 in China. It was launched by Militia United in Rights (Yiyathuan), known as "boxers" in English and inspired by this proto-nationalist feelings and foreign imperialism and opposition to the Christian missionary activity. The great powers intervened and defeated the Chinese army.
25 June	A Daoist monk in Mogo caves in Donhuang, China, discovered the world of 5th to 11th century Dunong manuscripts (Sampikta).
09 July	Queen Victoria confirmed the Constitution of Australia, gave his Royal Assistant to an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
03 August	Firestone tires and rubber company, leading in the maspraction of automobile tires, were installed in Occon, Ohio, US by Harvey Firestone.
16 August	The second Boer War-A was abandoned 10,000 strong columns that Kitchener broke a 13-day siege of a small Germanon.
08 September	Great Glestone Storm (depiction of damage), one of the Atlantic storm with an estimated winds of 135 mph (215 km / h) at the land level, was killed in Galveston, Texas, US, which killed at least 6000 people Went.
14 December	German physicist Max Planck presented a genetic derivation of its black-body radiation law, suggesting that electromagnetic energy could only be emitted in quantitative form.
26 December	A relief team arrived at the lighting on the Flonan Islands in Scotland and it was found that the previous crew had disappeared without anyone.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
18 August	Indian politician Vijayalakshmi Pandit, sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was born.
08 December	Pandit Uday Shankar, born dancer and dance director of modern dance of India, was born.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
25 June	Lord Mountbatten / Former viceroy / England
10 October	Helen Hayes / Actress / America
18 August	Vijay Laxmi Pandit / Politician / India
16 January	Sukumar Sen / Indian civil servant / India
03 November	Sagarmal Gopa / Freedom Fighter / India
22 October	Ashfaqulla Khan / Freedom Fighter / India
01 January	Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar / Scholar / India
02 December	Fa-hien (Wrong) / Historian / India
03 November	Sagarmal Gopa / Freedom Fighter / India
10 January	Marotrao Kannamwar / Politician / India
17 April	Binodananda Jha / Politician / India
18 August	Vijay Lakshmi Pandit / Politician / India
18 August	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit / Politician / India
19 February	Balwantrai Mehta / Politician / India
20 May	Sumitranandan Pant / Poet / India
22 October	Ashfaqulla Khan / Activist / India
22 October	Ashfaqullah Khan / Freedom Fighter / India
23 October	Douglas Jardine / Cricketer / India
25 June	Lord Louis Mountbatten / Indian Navy / India
25 June	Louis Mountbatten / Governor General / India

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