1899

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1899 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1899
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.\n* January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City\n* January 3 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times\n* January 6 - Lord Curzon becomes a viceroy of India\n* January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island\n* January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed\n* January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business\n* January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation\n* February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.\n* February 4 - Philippine-American War begins as hostilities break out in Manila.\n* February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.\n* February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the United States Congress for use in federal elections.\n* March 2 - In Washington State, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.\n* March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.\n* March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.\n* June 25 - Three Denver newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government is going to demolish the Great Wall of China - later proved to be a fabrication\n* July 29 - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the Hague Convention\n* September 19 – Alfred Dreufys pardoned\n* October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.\n* December 2 - Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.\n* December 26 – Battle of Mafeking begins \n* David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.\n* Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

Births

\n* January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer\n* January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991)\n* January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (d. 1991)\n* January 12 - Paul Hermann Müller, chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 (d. 1965)\n* January 15 - Goodman Ace, actor, comedian, writer (d. 1982)\n* January 17 - Al Capone, gangster, nicknamed "Scarface" (d. 1947)\n* January 17 - Nevil Shute, author (d. 1960)\n* February 6 - Ramon Novarro, actor (d. 1968)\n* February 15 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six\n* February 23 - Erich Kästner, lyricist and narrator (d. 1974)\n* February 23 - Elisabeth Langgässer, lyricist, narrator and novelist (d. 1950)\n* February 27 - Charles Best, medical scientist (d. 1978)\n* March 11 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (d. 1972)\n* March 18 - Jean Goldkette, jazz musician (d. 1962)\n* April 1 - Gustavs Celmins, politican (d. 1968)\n* April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, (writer)\n* April 29 - Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 1974)\n* May 10 - Fred Astaire, singer, dancer, actor (d. 1987)\n* May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, composer (d. 1979)\n* May 12 - Indra Devi, yogi (d. 2002)\n* May 24 ? Suzanne Lenglen, tennis great (d. 1938)\n* June 13 - Carlos Chávez, composer\n* June 30 - Harry Shields, jazz musician (d. 1971)\n* July 5 - Marcel Achard, play and scriptwriter\n* July 7 - George Cukor, film director (d. 1983)\n* July 11 - E. B. White, (writer)\n* July 15 - Sean Lemass, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1971)\n* July 21 - Hart Crane, American poet (d. 1932)\n* August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, (film director)\n* August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer\n* September 9 - Brassaï, photographer\n* September 9 - Waite Hoyt, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1984)\n* November 15 - Iskander Mirza, first President of Pakistan (d. 1969)\n* November 17 - Douglas Shearer, pioneer motion-picture sound engineer (d. 1971)\n* December 2 - John Barbirolli, conductor (d. 1970)\n* December 15 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)\n* December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe\n* December 25 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (d. 1957)\n* December 28 - Eugeniusz Bodo, famous Polish actor (killed in 1943)

Deaths

\n* February 25 - Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the Reuters News Agency\n* June 3 - Johann Strauss II, composer\n* July 21 - Robert G. Ingersoll, American political leader, American Civil War Colonel\n* August 16 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, chemist\n*September 12 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, railway magnate \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n