1899

Years: 1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1899 in art 1899 in film 1899 in literature 1899 in music 1899 in science 1899 in sports List of state leaders in 1899 List of religious leaders in 1899

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.
January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City
January 3 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times
January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes a viceroy of India
January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island
January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed
January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business
January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation
February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 4 - Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila.
February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the United States Congress for use in federal elections.
March 1 - in Afghanistan Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of Chamkannis that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
March 2 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
June 25 - Three Denver newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government is going to demolish the Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication
July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention
September 19 – Alfred Dreufys pardoned
October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
December 26 – Battle of Mafeking begins

David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

Births

January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer
January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991)
January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)
January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (d. 1965)
January 15 - Goodman Ace, actor, comedian, writer (d. 1982)
January 17 - Al Capone, gangster, nicknamed "Scarface" (d. 1947)
January 17 - Nevil Shute, author (d. 1960)
February 6 - Ramon Novarro, actor (d. 1968)
February 15 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
February 23 - Erich Kästner, lyricist and narrator (d. 1974)
February 23 - Elisabeth Langgässer, lyricist, narrator and novelist (d. 1950)
February 27 - Charles Best, medical scientist (d. 1978)
March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)
March 18 - Jean Goldkette, jazz musician (d. 1962)
April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, politican (d. 1968)
April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, (writer)
April 29 - Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)
May 10 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (d. 1987)
May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (d. 1979)
May 12 - Indra Devi, yogi (d. 2002)
May 24 ? Suzanne Lenglen, tennis great (d. 1938)
June 13 - Carlos Chávez, composer
June 30 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1971)
July 5 - Marcel Achard, play and scriptwriter
July 7 - George Cukor, film director (d. 1983)
July 11 - E. B. White, (writer)
July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1971)
July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)
August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, (film director)
August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
September 9 - Brassaï, photographer
September 9 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)
November 17 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971)
December 2 - John Barbirolli, conductor (d. 1970)
December 15 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)
December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe
December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (d. 1957)
December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, famous Polish actor (killed in 1943)

Deaths

February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the Reuters News Agency
June 3 - Johann Strauss II, composer
July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader, American Civil War Colonel
August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist
September 12 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railway magnate