As of
March 1 (
O.S.February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until
February 28 (
O.S.February 15), 2100. The year 1900 also marked
the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar.
March 16 – British archaeologist Sir
Arthur Evans purchases the land on
Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of
Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.
June 20 –
Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near
Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
June 25 – 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, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.
August 14 –
Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades
Peking and frees the European hostages.
August 27 – The
1900 Galveston Hurricane forms, going on to kill 8,000 people, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, and dissipates on September 15.
December 19 –
Hopetoun Blunder: The first
Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign.
^Facts About Association Football - History TimelineISBN1-471-61231-7 p. 13
^Landsteiner, Karl (1900). "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe"]. Zbl f. Bakt. 27:357-362 (issue of March 23, 1900)
^The Canadian Surveyor. Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping. 1970. p. 150.
^"What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty", by Elena Esposito and David Stark, in The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life, ed. by David Stark (Oxford University Press, 2020) p.124
^Roberts, John (1999). The Latin tinge : the impact of Latin American music on the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 59.
ISBN9780195121018.
^Schierbeck, Sachiko (1994). Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 73–76.
ISBN9788772892689.
OCLC32348453.
^Martin., Doerry (2004). My wounded heart : the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944. Brownjohn, John. (1st U.S. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury.
ISBN978-1582343709.
OCLC53001452.
^"Kekkonen, Sylvi (1900-1974)". Kansallisbiografia.fi (in Finnish). National Biography of Finland.
Archived from the original on August 1, 2021. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
^"Fromm: otro volcán en Cuernavaca" [Fromm: Another volcano in Cuernavaca] (in Spanish). En el Volcan. October 1, 2013.
Archived from the original on May 31, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^Thomas Hockey; Virginia Trimble; Thomas R. Williams; Katherine Bracher; Richard A. Jarrell; Jordan D. Marché; JoAnn Palmeri; Daniel W. E. Green, eds. (2007). The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers. New York, NY: Springer. pp.
876.
ISBN9780387304007.
OCLC184930573.
^Bracher, Katherine (2014). "Ames, Adelaide". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard A.; II, Jordan D. Marché; Palmeri, JoAnn; Green, Daniel W. E. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer New York. p. 68.
doi:
10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9217.
ISBN9781441999160.
^Chavaillon, Jean (1996).
"Henriette Alimen (1900-1996)". Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française (in French). 93 (4): 450–453.
Archived from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
^Tumminia, Diana G. (2005). When prophecy never fails : myth and reality in a flying-saucer group. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. Appendix 1.
ISBN9780195176759.
OCLC56481658.
^Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK)
^King, Betty N. (July 8, 2007).
"Frances Marr Adaskin". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from
the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
^Hine, Darlene Clark; Brown, Elsa Barkley; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn, eds. (1994). Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 387–388.
ISBN978-0253327741.
OCLC28334683.
^Sullivan, Martin (2005).
"Ross, Hedwig (Hettie) 1900–1971". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^"Belperron - AJU". langantiques.com.
Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^"Biografia" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C.
Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
^Deputati, La Camera dei.
"La Camera dei Deputati". legislature.camera.it (in Italian).
Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^Karl Grandin, ed. (1938).
"Richard Kuhn Biography". Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation.
Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
^Salmerón, Luis A. (July 3, 2018).
"¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jaramillo?] (in Spanish). Relatos e Historias de Mexico.
Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
As of
March 1 (
O.S.February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until
February 28 (
O.S.February 15), 2100. The year 1900 also marked
the Year of the Rat on the Chinese calendar.
March 16 – British archaeologist Sir
Arthur Evans purchases the land on
Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of
Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.
June 20 –
Boxer Rebellion: Boxers gather about 20,000 people near
Peking, and kill hundreds of European citizens, including the German ambassador.
June 25 – 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, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.
August 14 –
Boxer Rebellion: An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades
Peking and frees the European hostages.
August 27 – The
1900 Galveston Hurricane forms, going on to kill 8,000 people, the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, and dissipates on September 15.
December 19 –
Hopetoun Blunder: The first
Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign.
^Facts About Association Football - History TimelineISBN1-471-61231-7 p. 13
^Landsteiner, Karl (1900). "Zur Kenntnis der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe"]. Zbl f. Bakt. 27:357-362 (issue of March 23, 1900)
^The Canadian Surveyor. Canadian Institute of Surveying and Mapping. 1970. p. 150.
^"What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty", by Elena Esposito and David Stark, in The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life, ed. by David Stark (Oxford University Press, 2020) p.124
^Roberts, John (1999). The Latin tinge : the impact of Latin American music on the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 59.
ISBN9780195121018.
^Schierbeck, Sachiko (1994). Japanese women novelists in the 20th century : 104 biographies, 1900-1993. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 73–76.
ISBN9788772892689.
OCLC32348453.
^Martin., Doerry (2004). My wounded heart : the life of Lilli Jahn, 1900-1944. Brownjohn, John. (1st U.S. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury.
ISBN978-1582343709.
OCLC53001452.
^"Kekkonen, Sylvi (1900-1974)". Kansallisbiografia.fi (in Finnish). National Biography of Finland.
Archived from the original on August 1, 2021. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
^"Fromm: otro volcán en Cuernavaca" [Fromm: Another volcano in Cuernavaca] (in Spanish). En el Volcan. October 1, 2013.
Archived from the original on May 31, 2023. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
^Thomas Hockey; Virginia Trimble; Thomas R. Williams; Katherine Bracher; Richard A. Jarrell; Jordan D. Marché; JoAnn Palmeri; Daniel W. E. Green, eds. (2007). The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers. New York, NY: Springer. pp.
876.
ISBN9780387304007.
OCLC184930573.
^Bracher, Katherine (2014). "Ames, Adelaide". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard A.; II, Jordan D. Marché; Palmeri, JoAnn; Green, Daniel W. E. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer New York. p. 68.
doi:
10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9217.
ISBN9781441999160.
^Chavaillon, Jean (1996).
"Henriette Alimen (1900-1996)". Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française (in French). 93 (4): 450–453.
Archived from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2017.
^Tumminia, Diana G. (2005). When prophecy never fails : myth and reality in a flying-saucer group. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. Appendix 1.
ISBN9780195176759.
OCLC56481658.
^Certified Archival Documents with birth and marriage dates (Charlottenberg, Berlin), birth certificate of daughter (Amsterdam) and death certificate for Lisy Fischer (UK)
^King, Betty N. (July 8, 2007).
"Frances Marr Adaskin". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from
the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
^Hine, Darlene Clark; Brown, Elsa Barkley; Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn, eds. (1994). Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 387–388.
ISBN978-0253327741.
OCLC28334683.
^Sullivan, Martin (2005).
"Ross, Hedwig (Hettie) 1900–1971". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Archived from the original on December 24, 2014. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^"Belperron - AJU". langantiques.com.
Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^"Biografia" (in Spanish). Fundacion Miguel Aleman, A.C.
Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
^Deputati, La Camera dei.
"La Camera dei Deputati". legislature.camera.it (in Italian).
Archived from the original on October 22, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
^Karl Grandin, ed. (1938).
"Richard Kuhn Biography". Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Foundation.
Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
^Salmerón, Luis A. (July 3, 2018).
"¿Quién fue Rubén Jaramillo?" [Who was Ruben Jaramillo?] (in Spanish). Relatos e Historias de Mexico.
Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.