January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death March 22, 1900
The temperature on March 22, 1900 was about 4.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. Source: KNMI
January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
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