January 1900 in History

Events in History

Theater Premiere

Jan 3 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Schluck und Jau," premieres in Berlin

Jan 5 Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule
Jan 6 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured

Second Boer War

Jan 10 British generals Frederick Roberts and Herbert Kitchener reach Cape Town during the Second Boer War

General and Secretary of War Horatio Kitchener

Jan 12 Freeland Colony founded in US
Jan 16 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands
Jan 16 The US gains control over Tutuila in Samoa and several smaller Pacific islands
Jan 18 Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
Jan 21 The second contingent of Canadian troops sails from Halifax to fight in South Africa against the Boers
Jan 24 Battle of Spion Kop: South African Boers defeat the British army after it attempts to cross the Tugela River and relieve the besieged city Ladysmith

Theater Premiere

Jan 26 Henrik Ibsen's play "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer" (When We Dead Awaken) premieres in Stuttgart

Jan 27 Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, write formal notes of protest demanding that the Chinese Government stop the Boxes and other groups leading attacks on Westerners and Christians.
Jan 27 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
Jan 31 The final report of the USA's Philippine Commission is released, favouring territorial government for the islands with home rule in local affairs, but with US assumptions of ultimate responsibility for the government.

Birthdays in History

Jan 1 Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
Jan 1 Hubert van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer (DAF Trucks), born in America, Dutch Limburg, Netherlands (d. 1979)
Jan 4 James Bond, American ornithologist (d. 1989)
Jan 5 Paula Ludwig, Austrian-German poet, born in Vorarlberg, Austria (d. 1974)
Jan 5 Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter, born in Paris, France (d. 1955)
Jan 6 Queen Maria of Yugoslavia [Maria of Romania], Queen consort of Yugoslavia (1922-34), born in Gotha, German Empire (d. 1961)
Jan 8 Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French modernist-abstract painter, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1969)
Jan 9 Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939), born in Brownsville, Tennessee (d. 1939)
Jan 15 Caesar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
Jan 16 Edith Frank, mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1945)
Jan 17 George Sperti, American inventor (Preparation H), born in Covington, Kentucky (d. 1991)
Jan 17 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, Portuguese patron of the arts, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1996)
Jan 25 Theodosius Dobzhansky, Russian-American genetist, evolutionary biologist and author (Mankind Evolving), born in Nemyriv, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
Jan 25 Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer, born in Hirosaki, Japan (d. 1986)
Jan 27 Hyman G. Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy, at 63 years the longest serving US naval officer), born in Maków Mazowiecki, Congress Poland (d. 1986)
Jan 28 A. A. M. Stols, Dutch publisher (History of Ecuador), born in Maastricht, Netherlands (d. 1973)
Jan 28 Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
Jan 28 Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange), born in Pidvolochysk, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1996)
Jan 29 Willem Hussem, Dutch painter and poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1974)
Jan 31 Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1982)