August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
September 13 » Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of death April 20, 1900
The temperature on April 20, 1900 was about 12.8 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 27 » The British Labour Party is founded.
February 28 » The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
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.
Day of burial April 23, 1900
The temperature on April 23, 1900 was about 8.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
May 23 » American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney is awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
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