In history, year 1900 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1900.
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
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| 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 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 Knossos, Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing My cenaean Greek now known as Linear B. |
| 29 may | N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy byFrench commander Émile Gentil. |
| 14 june | Hawaii became a United States territory. The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States. Hawaii is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only U.S. state not located in the Americas. |
| 17 june | Boxer Rebellion-Allied naval forces captured the Taku Fortsafter a brief but bloody battle. |
| 20 june | Boxer Rebellion-The Imperial Chinese Army began a 55-day siegeof the Legation Quarter in Beijing. |
| 21 june | China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan. It was an anti-imperialist uprising which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1899 and 1901. It was initiated by the Militia United in Righteousness (Yihetuan), known in English as the "Boxers," and was motivated by proto-nationalist sentiments and opposition to foreign imperialism and associated Christian missionary activity. The Great Powers intervened and defeated Chinese forces. |
| 25 june | A Daoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in theMogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. |
| 09 july | Queen Victoria gave her Royal Assent to an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, ratifying the Constitution of Australia. |
| 03 august | The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, a pioneer in the massproduction of automobile tires, was founded by Harvey Firestone inAkron, Ohio, US. |
| 16 august | Second Boer War-A 10,000-strong column of soldiers left byLord Kitchener broke a 13-day siege of a small garrison. |
| 08 september | The Great Galveston Hurricane, one of the deadliest Atlantic hurricanes with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour(215 km/h) at landfall, struck Galveston, Texas, US, killing at least 6,000 people. |
| 14 december | German physicist Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law, suggesting that electro magnetic energy could only be emitted in quantized form. |
| 26 december | A relief crew arrived at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland and discovered that the previous crew had disappeared without trace. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 02 August | Holling C. Holling / Author / United States of America |
| 05 April | Herbert Bayer / Painter / United States of America |
| 06 March | Lefty Grove / Baseball Player / United States of America |
| 06 July | Frederica Sagor Maas / Author / United States of America |
| 07 October | Heinrich Himmler / Politician / Germany |
| 08 December | Sun Li-jen / Politician / China |
| 12 February | Roger J. Traynor / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 13 October | Gerald Marks / Composer / United States of America |
| 14 May | Edgar Wind / Author / United Kingdom |
| 14 November | Aaron Copland / Composer / United States of America |
| 14 May | Walter Rehberg / Composer / Switzerland |
| 19 March | Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Academic / France |
| 19 August | Gilbert Ryle / Author / United Kingdom |
| 20 July | Maurice Leyland / Cricketer / United Kingdom |
| 22 September | William Spratling / Educator / United States of America |
| 23 December | Otto Soglow / Cartoonist / United States of America |
| 25 September | Artur Sirk / Lawyer / Estonia |
| 26 August | Hellmuth Walter / Business Man / United States of America |
| 27 April | August Koern / Politician / Estonia |
| 31 August | Gino Lucetti / Anarchist / Italy |
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
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| 18 August | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit / Politician / India |
| 20 May | Sumitranandan Pant / Poet / India |
| 17 April | Binodananda Jha / Politician / India |
| 10 January | Marotrao Kannamwar / Politician / India |
| 22 October | Ashfaqulla Khan / Activist / India |
| 01 January | Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar / Scholar / India |
| 25 June | Lord Louis Mountbatten / Indian Navy / India |
| 03 November | Sagarmal Gopa / Freedom Fighter / India |
| 25 June | Louis Mountbatten / Governor General / India |
| 19 February | Balwantrai Mehta / Politician / India |
| 18 August | Vijay Lakshmi Pandit / Politician / India |
| 02 December | Fa-hien / Historian / India |
| 20 May | Sumitranandan Pant / Poet / India |
| 22 October | Ashfaqullah Khan / Freedom Fighter / India |
| 23 October | Douglas Jardine / Cricketer / India |