1900 events

The first line of the Paris Metro opens for operation. Date: July 19, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 19 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. Date: July 14, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 14 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children. Date: July 9, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 9 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Federation of Australia is given royal assent. Date: July 9, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 9 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

The luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan). Date: July 7, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 7 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On…

A savage fire wrecked three steamships docked at a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. Over 200 crew members and passengers are killed, and hundreds injured. Date: June 30, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 30 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

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…

Boxer Rebellion: China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi. Date: June 21, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 21 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return. Date: June 20, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 20 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)

Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China. Date: June 20, 1900 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 20 📅 Events on this day in 1900 📅 On This Day (Today)