1900
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s |
| Years: | 1897 1898 1899 – 1900 – 1901 1902 1903 |
1900 Media
The world in the year 1900
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Second Boer War: Boers at Spion Kop
Plaque recording the location of the formation of the British Labour Party in 1900.
Exposition Universelle view in Paris
July 2: First successful rigid airship flight by Zeppelin LZ 1
July 9: Federation of Australia enacted.
Japanese diplomat Sugihara Chiune, known as "Japanese Oskar Schindler" (1 January 1900 – 31 July 1986).
Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
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1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. It was last year of the 19th century.
The Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar as of the start of the year. The Julian calendar observed a leap day this year; this made the Gregorian calendar 13 days ahead. The year 1900 was also the year of the rat on the Chinese calendar.
Art, music, theatre, literature
- May 17 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.
Events
- February 9 – The Boers defeat the British at Ladysmith, South Africa.
- The Olympic Games took place in Paris.
Births
January
- January 1 – Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer (d. 1977)
- January 1 – Paola Borboni, Italian actress (d. 1995)
February
- February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (d. 1983)
March
- March 10 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)
- March 29 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
April
- April 5 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)
May
June
- June 17 – Martin Bormann, Nazi-German politician (d. 1945)
July
- July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)
August
- August 4 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- August 4 – Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian, last surviving person born in the 19th century (d. 2018)
September
- September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)
October
- October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
- October 17 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
- October 20 – Ismail al-Azhari, President of Sudan (d. 1969)
- October 21 – Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (d. 1995)
- October 26 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)
November
- November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
December
- December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
Deaths
- June 5 – Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871)
- August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)