January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
March 6 » Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
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
February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
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