Boxer Rebellion: Allied Forces Capture Taku Forts, Tianjin, June 17, 1900
Date: June 17, 1900
Date: June 17, 1900
U.S. Government announces plans to buy Danish West Indies for $7 million. Date: October 24, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 24 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Birsa Munda Dies in British Prison, Indian Nationalist Leader June 9, 1900King Umberto…
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. Date: June 25, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 25 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day…
The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister. Date: May 17, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 17 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)…
Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home. Date: April 26, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Nigeria Becomes British…
To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces. Date: January 13, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 13 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Battle of Spion Kop Ends in British Defeat,…
A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. Date: February 7, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 7 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Scofield Mine Disaster Kills…