January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Day of death June 27, 1900
The temperature on June 27, 1900 was about 13.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
June 5 » Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
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