January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
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.
Day of death January 25, 1900
The temperature on January 25, 1900 was about 5.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
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.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
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