1899

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s

Years: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904

See also:

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Art, Culture & Fashion
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Heads of State

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 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 2 - In Washington, 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.
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.
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.

Art, Culture & Fashion

Births

January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer
January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991)
January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)
January 12 - Paul Hermann MÃÂÃÂ¼ller, 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 KÃÂÃÂ¤stner, lyricist and narrator (d. 1974)
February 23 - Elisabeth LanggÃÂÃÂ¤sser, 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 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)
June 13 - Carlos ChÃÂÃÂ¡vez, 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 - BrassaÃÂÃÂ¯, photographer
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 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 ÃÂÃÂ Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railway magnate

Heads of State

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
Germany - Wilhelm II, German Kaiser (1888-1918)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji Emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - William McKinley, President of the United States (1897-1901)