1899

Year 1899 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day-slower ).

Although popular belief holds this year as the last of the Nineteenth century, was in fact technically the true last year.

January - March



 * End of rule in.
 * and merge with.
 * - becomes.
 * - fraternity is founded at  in.
 * - takes possession of.
 * - takes possession of.
 * - is formed.
 * - Motors opens for business.
 * - The leaders of six n colonies meet in to discuss the confederation of  as a whole.
 * - The n Premiers' Conference held in agrees Australia's capital  should be located between  and Melbourne.
 * - begins as hostilities break out in Manila.
 * - : A peace treaty between the and  is ratified by the.
 * - - : Freezing temperatures and extend well south into North America, including southern .  Many areas in the  achieve all-time record minimum temperatures that hold for decades, if not to the present day.  It is the latest in a series of disasters to Florida's  industry.
 * - s are approved by the for use in federal s.
 * - established. The first football club in Iceland.
 * - In Capt. George Roos-Keppel makes a sudden attack on a predatory band of  that have been raiding in the Kurram Valley and captures 100 prisoners with 3,000 head of cattle.
 * - In State, USA,  is established.
 * - Mahina sweeps in north of, , with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland - over 300 dead.
 * patents.
 * registers as a trademark.
 * - Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899, prequel for is founded
 * - At,  becomes the first woman executed in an.
 * - At,  becomes the first woman executed in an.

April - June

 * - A completely destroys the town of, killing 117 and injuring more than 200
 * – - the highest ever recorded cricket score, 628 not out, is made by.
 * - Three newspapers publish a story that the Chinese government under the  is going to demolish the  - later proved to be a fabrication.
 * The paperclip was first patented by, a Norwegian inventor.


 * - earned his famous nickname this day after he became the first man to ride a bicycle for one mile in under a minute on.

July - September

 * America's first is established in.
 * is organized as the first ese joint venture with foreign capital.
 * The - mission is destroyed in the, in , by the warlord.
 * - takes place when the Newsies of New York, USA go on strike (strike lasts until August 2).
 * - The First Peace Conference ends with the signing of the.
 * -, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of.
 * - is pardoned.
 * - is pardoned.

October - December

 * - begins: In, a war between the  and the  of the  and  erupts.
 * - Augusta High School Building is completed.  shuts down.
 * - Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority is founded in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
 * - The opens.
 * - n doctor, poet, and national hero dies of  at age 40.
 * -, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
 * - : The, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
 * During the on December 2-3, 1899, a near-grand  of the  and several   bodies occurred. The, , ,  and  were all within 15° of each other, with  5° ahead of this conjunction and  15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction were  (technically visible unaided in -free skies),  and.
 * -, one of the most successful football clubs in the world, is founded.
 * - Augusta High School burns down due to a heating plant failure.
 * - begins.
 * - A large standing stone at falls over, the last time this has happened.

Undated

 * creates the modern concept of with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
 * is founded.
 * is first bottled.
 * The significance of s is discovered.
 * is founded.
 * The incorporates the town of, which was originally laid out as the  county seat in.
 * composes, known as one of the most famous pieces of all time.

January - June

 * -, British olympic rower (d.)
 * -, German automotive engineer, managing director of (d. )
 * -, French composer (d. )
 * -, English actress (d. )
 * -, Swiss chemist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, American actor, comedian, and writer (d. )
 * , American gangster (d. )
 * , English author (d. )
 * -, suspected British (d. )
 * -, South African virologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * , British actress (d. )
 * , Chinese author (d. )
 * -, Mexican actor (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * , French composer (d. )
 * , American actress (d. )
 * -, baseball player (d. )
 * , American actor (d. )
 * , Bulgarian painter (d. )
 * , Australian scientist, first chair of (d. )
 * -, German writer (d. )
 * , Australian solider who fought in the (d. )
 * , member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. )
 * -, Canadian medical scientist (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * -, American physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, French-born musician (d. )
 * -, director of the during  (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, eleventh president of (d. )
 * -, Soviet official (d. )
 * -, Latvian fascist leader (d. )
 * -, French pianist (d. )
 * -, American scientist (d. )
 * -, Russian-born writer (d. )
 * -, Swedish economist, laureate (d. )
 * -, Russian mathematician (d. )
 * -, animator (d.
 * -, American jazz musician, bandleader (d. )
 * -, Austrian economist, laureate (d. )
 * , American singer, dancer, and actor (d. )
 * , Ukrainian-born composer (d. )
 * -, Baltic-born yogi and actress (d. )
 * -, French general (d. )
 * -, French tennis player (d. )
 * -, British mathematician (d. )
 * -, German-born silhouette animator (d. )
 * -, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, American biochemist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, Mexican composer (d. )
 * -, Japanese writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, airline entrepreneur and pioneer, founder (d. )
 * -, American jazz clarinettist (d. )
 * -, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, American biochemist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, Mexican composer (d. )
 * -, Japanese writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, airline entrepreneur and pioneer, founder (d. )
 * -, American jazz clarinettist (d. )

July - December

 * -, French play and scriptwriter (d. )
 * -, American film director (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * , American poet (d. )
 * , American writer, laureate (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * -, thirteenth president of (d. )
 * -, British film director (d. )
 * , Argentine writer (d. )
 * , Belgian biologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * , American general (d. )
 * , Mexican painter (d. )
 * -, American boxing trainer, was active from the 1920s through the 1980s (d.)
 * -, Russian-born writer of the Soviet period (d. )
 * -, Australian biologist, recipient of the (d. )
 * , French photographer (d. )
 * , baseball player (d. )
 * -, Romanian fascist politician, leader of the (d. )
 * -, the 8th General of (d. )
 * -, American writer (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, Guatemalan writer, laureate (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * , Estonian Minister of War in Exile (d. )
 * , first (d. )
 * -, film sound engineer (d. )
 * -, Hungarian conductor (d. )
 * -, American actress (d. )
 * -, English conductor (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, French writer (d. )
 * -, British athlete (d. )
 * -, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. )
 * -, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, Polish actor (d. )
 * -, Chinese Communist military leader (d. )
 * date unknown -, German psychiatrist (d. )
 * -, Norwegian author and philosopher (d. )
 * -, American actor (d. )
 * -, Polish actor (d. )
 * -, Chinese Communist military leader (d. )
 * date unknown -, German psychiatrist (d. )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, Governor of California (b. )
 * , (b. )
 * Prince (b. )
 * -, (b. )
 * -, German-born news agency founder (b. )
 * -, American politician from Ohio (b. )
 * - of, Last monarch of Hawaii. (b. )
 * -, Welsh politician (b. )
 * -, Austrian composer (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )
 * -, French composer (b. )

July - December

 * -, American writer (b. )
 * -, American politician (b. )
 * -, German chemist (b. )
 * -, American railway magnate (b. )
 * -, industrialist (b. )
 * -, aviation pioneer & glider pilot, (b. )
 * -, American industrialist and philanthropist (b. )
 * -, 24th (b. )
 * -, Sudanese political and religious leader (killed in battle) (b. )
 * - King (b. )
 * -, American evangelist (b. )


 * See also .