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(''' MCM ''') was an Exceptional Common Year Starting On Monday .
in 1900]]
- February 2 - First performance of Gustave Charpentier 's opera, Louise
- February 3 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky . Former-Secretary of State Caleb Powers was later found guilty in a conspiracy to kill Goebel.
- February 3 - Strikers in Aachen , Vienna and Brussels demand an 8 hour working day and higher wages.
- February 5 - Britain and the USA sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua
- February 6 - The House Of Commons vote of censure over the Britain 's handling of the Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213
- February 6 - The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands ' Senate ratifies an 1899 Peace Conference decree.
- February 7 - The British Labour Party is formed.
- February 8 - British troops are defeated by Boer s at Ladysmith , South Africa .
- February 9 - Dwight Davis creates the Davis Cup Tennis tournament
- February 9 - Richard Wigginton Thompson , U.S. congressman, dies.
- with march from Orange River to Ramdam
- February 12 - Meeting held in Mile End , London to protest against the Second Boer War ends in uproar
- February 14 - Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
- , 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State .
- February 16 - Appearence of "Savrola (A Tale of Revolution in Laurania)", the first Novel of Winston Spencer Churchill
- February 17 - Battle Of Paardeberg in the Second Boer War.
- February 18 - Harry Vardon becomes world Golf champion
- February 18 - A man claims that X-ray s have cured his cancer.
- February 19 - German Minister Of Navy says the German fleet "must be strong enough to ensure it's mastery of the North Sea
- February 22 - Hawaii officially becomes a territory of the United States .
- - In South Africa the Boer s and British troops battle.
- February 26 - The Grand Theatre , Islington is destroyed by fire
- , British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje .
- February 27 - Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed British Labour Party .
- August 14 - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
- August 27 - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal
- August 3 - Ernie Pyle , American journalist (d. 1945 )
- August 4 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , queen of King George VI Of The United Kingdom (d. 2002 )
- August 6 - Cecil H. Green , British-born geophysicist and businessman (d. 2003 )
- August 10 - Arthur Espie Porritt , New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994 )
- August 11 - Philip Phillips , American archaeologist (d. 1994 )
- August 15 - Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet (d. 1966 )
- August 19 - Colleen Moore , American actress (d. 1988 )
- August 22 - Sergei Ozhegov , Russian lexicographer (d. 1964 )
- August 25 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs , German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1981 )
- August 26 - Hellmuth Walter , German engineer and inventor (d. 1980 )
- January 20 - Richard D. Blackmore , British Novelist
- January 20 - John Ruskin , English writer and social critic (b. 1819 )
- January 31 - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess Of Queensberry , Scottish nobleman and boxer (b. 1844 )
- March 6 - Gottlieb Daimler , German inventor and automotive pioneer (b. 1834 )
- April 5 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand , French mathematician (b. 1822 )
- April 19 - James Dawson , Aboriginal Guardian (b. 1806 )
- April 24 - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke Of Argyll , British politician (b. 1823 )
- April 30 - Casey Jones , American train wreck victim (b. 1864 )
- May 18 - Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien , French philosopher (b. 1813 )
- June 3 - Mary Kingsley , English explorer and writer (b. 1862 )
- June 5 - Stephen Crane , American author (b. 1871 )
- June 11 - Belle Boyd , American Confederate spy and actress (b. 1843 )
- July 29 - Umberto I , King Of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1844 )
- July 30 - Alfred, Duke Of Saxe-Coburg And Gotha (b. 1844 )
- August 10 - Charles Russell, Baron Russell Of Killowen , Lord Chief Justice Of England (b. 1832 )
- August 12 - Wilhelm Steinitz , Austrian-born chess player (b. 1836 )
- August 16 - Eça De Queirós , Portuguese writer (b. 1845 )
- August 25 - Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher and writer (b. 1844 )
- August 25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka , Prime Minister Of Japan (b. 1840 )
- September 23 - William Marsh Rice , American philanthropist and university founder (murdered) (b. 1816 )
- September 29 - Samuel Fenton Cary , American politician (b. 1814 )
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich , Czech composer (b. 1850 )
- October 22 - John Sherman , American politician (b. 1823 )
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan . English composer (b. 1842 )
- November 30 - Oscar Wilde , Irish writer (b. 1854 )
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