Qwika - 1900

The year 1900 treats 1900 this article. For the film of the same name, see to 1900 (film)

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moving events

14. February: Three girls from an Australian girl college, who made a trip with their school the Hanging skirt, disappear in unexplainable way
20. February: The Paderborner bishop Hubert Sigmar as a new archbishop of Cologne inthronisiert
28. May: In Portugal, Spain, Algeria and in parts of the USA can be observed a total solar eclipse

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disasters

4. January: In the Russian region over low-read destroys an earthquake ten villages. About 1,000 humans die
16. January: An explosion misfortune in the dynamite factory of Avigliani with Turin (Italy) demands 10 dead ones and 30 partially. Severely wounded person.
8. March: The 1860 under Ludwig XIV. created French national theatres Comédie Francaise burns up to the outside walls down. Among the victims is also the 22-jährige actress Jane Henriot. To 29. December the building opens 8
again. September: A Stufe-4 hurricane destroys the texanische coastal town Galveston and tears 8000 humans into death
29. October: With an explosion in a New Yorker chemistry factory nearly 200 humans die
16. December: The German school ship „Gneisenau “sinks in the storm before the port of Málaga (Spain). 41 dead ones

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politics and economics

1. January: In the German Reich the civil law book ( BGB) and the commercial code ( HGB) come into force
1. January: Walter of houses replaces Eduard Mueller as Federal President of Switzerland . Houses for the second time Federal President 1 becomes after
1892. January: In Austria Hungary the Austrian crown becomes exclusive currency. The new gold currency replaces the guldens, since 1892 slowly from traffic was pulled
to 1. January: The law on registration of births marriages and deaths comes into force on Helgoland . Marriages must be closed immediately before a registrar of births, marriages and deaths
1. January: The invalidity insurance law comes into force in the German Reich
1. January: Italy, king Umberto I. an amnesty issues
1. January: Century celebration in the arsenal Berlin, organizes II. from emperor Wilhelm.
2. January: In Vienna the Austrian crown newspaper appears. Publisher of the new Tagesgazette is Gustav Davis
3. January: The French high court of state in Paris Paul Déroulède condemns the poet and politician because of high treason to ten years banishing
4. January: Into Böhmen and into Mähren about 70000 mining industry workers go into the strike. They require shorter hours and a wage increase of 20%. In February thousands follow further mountain men generally speaking realm. The bad organization and financial states of distress let the strike fail in March without successes
second Tirpitz fleet collecting main for the armament of the German navy against the British naval supremacy
7. February: The British House of Commons leans a request of the Irish nationalists for completion of the Burenkrieges with large majority starting from
12. February: Lenin turns 17 after 3 years from Siberian banishing
back. February: Emperor Wilhelm II. explained those Samoa - islands as German protected area
26. February: Before the House of Commons the British war Minister communicates Bodrick that in the Burenkrieg also women and children were held „to their protection “ in concentration camps. The food situation in these camps as „with difficulty “designates
27. February: Establishment labour of the Representation Committee as forerunners of the British labour party
28. February: By law women become without reservation the higher education certified 1 in the Grand Duchy of
bathing. March: Governor Wilhelm Heinrich Solf were called in Milinuu the German realm Reich in the new German colony Samoa
6. March - in Bremen William becomes II. with an assassination attempt by the worker Dietrich because and heavily at the head hurts
9. March: German Reichstag discharges the meat inspecting law
14. March: US president William McKinley signs that gold standard - law. This fixed covering of the currency by gold is waived 71 years later by Richard Nixon
31. March: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk creates the Czech people's party: as Czech movement of independence and as refusal at the Panslawismus
4. April: On Brussels main station is committed on Albert Eduard , Prince OF Wales, a failed assassination attempt. The author, a 16-jähriger plumber, justified his act with the British suppression politics in the Burenkrieg. The British press makes the rushing politics of the continental-European states responsible on the subsequent day against the Burenkrieg for the assassination attempt. To 5. July is acquitted the author because of irresponsibility
14. April: The French president Emile Loubet opens those to Paris world exhibition
15. April: The German East Africa line takes the regular navigation after Capetown on
16. April: In the USA the first Briefmarkenheftchen is sold.
5. May: After heavy unrests and mass demonstrations in Barcelona, Madrid, Valladolid, Burgos and Saragossa against the new tax laws the Spanish government imposes the state of siege over Barcelona. Spain turned out since 1898 by the fight against the rebellion in Cuba and the war against the USA into a desolate budgetary situation
22. May: German Reichstag takes the disputed bill over indecent assaults (Lex Heinze) in his compromise version at
28. May: Great Britain explains the Buren - to Republic of Oranjefreistaat as the colony
12. June: Reichstag discharges that 2. Fleet law, that the arms race with Great Britain to sea advances (Tirpitz fleet collecting main)
14. June: Invasion „of the Boxer “ in Peking
14. June: Hawaii becomes a territory and a 1959 annektiertes of the USA 50. Federal State
19. June: During unrests in the course of the boxing up conditions the German envoy of Ketteler on open road shot
19. July: The first Paris Metro - distance is taken in enterprise. 10.6 km long tunnels the stations havens Maillot and havens de Vincenne 27
connect. July: Emperor Wilhelm II. the so-called „ Hunnenrede holds “before the troops abkommandierten after Eastern Asia in Bremerhaven. International protests 29
follow. July: King Umberto I. with an assassination attempt of the Anarchisten Gaetano Bresci in Monza is killed by Italy, it follows Viktor Emanuel III. on that thrones
1. August: Lenin leaves Russia into its 5 years persisting Geneva emigration
2. August: In Paris on the Schah by Persia, Muzaffar ad-DIN, a unsuccessful assassination attempt is committed. The Schah surprised the armed 25-year old assassin with an impact on the wrist
6. August: Between France and the German Reich the telephone transmission opens
14. August: Large parts of the Brussels world exhibition by a fire destroys
15. August: A Expeditionscorps of western powers conquers Peking (see boxing up conditions)
31. August: Admission of direct telegraph traffic between Germany and the USA by means of transatlantic cables. The distance goes from Borkum to New York town center
1. September: Great Britain divides the Annexion of Transvaal into South Africa with
19. September: The British field marshal Frederick Sleigh Robert explains the Burenkrieg for terminates
23. September: The German field marshal Alfred count von Waldersee receives the supreme command over the allied troops in the Boxerkrieg
1. October: With a fire disaster in Baku 97 drilling rigs become and approx. 8,000 t oil destroys
16. October: Jangtse agreement between Great Britain and the German Reich
17. October: Bernhard von Bülow becomes new German realm Reich
6. November: William McKinley is red-elect as a president of the USA; its vice-president is Theodore Roosevelt
12. November: The world exhibition in Paris goes to end. The organizers counted in the seven months approximately 47 million visitor
13. November: In France women become immediately certified as woman barristers

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military events

24. January: Victory of the Buren over the British in the battle with Ladysmith (Natal - South Africa)
2. March: The British occupy the third biggest city of the State of Natal (South Africa) in the Burenkrieg Ladysmith,
13. March: The British close the conquest of the Oranjefreistaates (South Africa) starting from

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science and technology

10. January: On in Stettin II. finds volcanicthrown in presence of emperor Wilhelm. the launching of a vessel of the double screw steamer Germany of the HAPAG instead of. Germany is the up to then largest, strongest and fastest German ship and receives to 5. July the blue volume for the fastest Atlantic - crossing
21. February: Into physicists born in Ulm Albert Einstein is in-patriated in Zurich
25. March: In Guide Bridge with Manchester the first zweitakt diesel engine one tests
27. March: The Swedish scientist and Asia researcher Sven Hedin discover the ruin city Loulan 2 in
China. July: The rigid airship LZ I undertakes its first trial trip 19 successfully in Friedrichshafen at
the Bodensee. July: Those Paris Métro goes into enterprise.
27. August: First regular long-distance traffic of motorbuses (London: Leeds)
19. October: Max Planck gives his discovery of the radiation law before the German physical society in Berlin admits
14. December: Max Planck speaks the theoretical interpretation of the radiation law, whereby he found that the radiation energy can be delivered only in certain portions (Energiequanten) (birth of the quantum theory)
23. December: Reginald Fessenden leads the first wireless speech transmission by

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culture

the narration „lieutenant Gustl “from Arthur Schnitzler appears
the novel „in the paradise “from Heinrich man appears
6. January: Carl of captain drama Ephraims width in Breslau uraufgeführt
14. January: Premiere of the opera Tosca of Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome
22. January: Premiere of the opera it was once of Alexander of Zemlinsky in Vienna (Austria)
26. January: In Stuttgart the play if we dead ones to awake of Henrik Ibsen uraufgeführt
3. February: Premiere of the comedy sip and Jau of Gerhard captain in the German theatre Berlin
26. February: Premiere of the comedy intoxication by August Strindberg in the royal dramatic theatre Stockholm
9. March: In Frankfurt/Main August Strindbergs passion drama Easter uraufgeführt
13. March: Premiere of the opera the quiet village of Alexander of Fielitz in Hamburg
16. April: Premiere of the drama “master Oelze “of Johannes sleep in Magdeburg
3. November: Premiere of the opera the fairy tale of the Zaren Saltan of Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski Korsakow at the Solodownikow Privatoper in Moscow

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sport

28. January: In Leipzig the German football federation is created
6. February: On the Csobaer lake (high Tatra) finds for the first time an European championship in ice high-speedon instead of
9. February: The 20-year old US-American tennis player Dwight F. Davis donates the Davis Cup designated after it. First winner of the Davis Cups the USA with a 3:0 victory over Great Britain 10
become. February: The 23-jährige Norwegian ice high-speed runners Peder Östlund sets five new world records in Davos within two days to
27. February: Establishment of the soccer association fiber plastic Bavaria Munich
18. March: Establishment of the soccer association Ajax Amsterdam
4. May: Establishment of the soccer association 1. Fiber plastic Nuremberg
11. May: The American James J. Jeffries wins in Coney Iceland against its compatriot James J. Corbett the box world championship in the heavyweight
14. May: Opening II. Summer Olympiad in Paris: as support program of the current world exhibition
16. December: Establishment of the sport association Alemannia Aachen