Empress Dowager Cixi Orders Foreigners Killed in China June 18, 1900
Date: June 18, 1900
Date: June 18, 1900
Count Bernhard von BΓΌlow becomes chancellor of Germany. Date: October 18, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on October 18 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Hawaii Becomes U.S. Territory, June 14, 1900Great Britain Annexes Tonga Island, May 19, 1900Second Boer War: Battle…
British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. Six hundred British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner. Date: April 10, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 10 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Count Bernhard…
Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover the first clay tablet with hieroglyphic writing in a script later called Linear B. Date: March 30, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on March 30 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Thousand Days’ War: Conservatives Win Battle…
The world's fair Exposition Universelle opens in Paris. Date: April 14, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on April 14 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1900San Francisco Bubonic Plague First U.S. Epidemic February 7, 1900Great Britain Names Lord Roberts Commander in South…
Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop. Date: January 24, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on January 24 π Events on this day in 1900 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1900Second Boer War: British Fail…
The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift. Date: August 16,…