1899

1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year beginning on a Sunday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• 1 January:
  • Cuba is definitely independent of Spain.
  • In Catalonia, the first issue of the newspaper goes to the street La Veu de Catalunya.
  • In New York State, Queens and Staten Island districts join New York City.
• 3 January: in an editorial New York Times the word "automobile" is used for the first time.
• January 6: In India, Lord Curzon becomes the governor-general of India.
• 7 January: in Madrid the first issue of the magazine appears Literary life, led by Jacinto Benavente, and among whose collaborators were Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Machado.
• January 17: United States takes possession of Wake Island
• January 21st: In Germany, Opel is inaugurated.
• January 29: An earthquake is 8.4 in the border zone between Oaxaca and Guerrero.
• The UK annexes the Guayana Esquiba of Venezuela to the British Guiana arbitrarily.
• January 30: In Bogotá, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo was founded

February

• February 2: In Australia, the Melbourne conference decided to create the country's capital in Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
• February 4: In Manila, fighting is being waged during the Philippine-American War.
• February 15: "Abrazo del Estrecho" among the presidents of Argentina, Julio Argentino Roca, and of Chile, Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, in connection with the signing of the Treaty of Limits related to the Puna de Atacama.

March

• March 3: in Spain, Francisco Silvela is the first to form a government.
• 4 March: in the Strait of Torres (Australia) a cyclic mare (with sustained winds of 205 km/h) floods the coasts and kills more than 400 people.
• March 6: In Germany, the pharmaceutical company Bayer patents aspirin.
• March 20: Martha M. Place becomes the first woman to be executed in the electric chair

April

• April 10: As part of the Federal War in Bolivia, in the Second Cruise of Copacabana, the peace army led by Colonel José Manuel Pando defeats the forces of President Severo Fernández Alonso. Subsequently, the seat of the Presidency of the Republic of Bolivia will be transferred from Sucre to La Paz.

May

• May 14: In Montevideo (Uruguay) the National Club of Football is founded.
• May 23: the Liberal Revolution Restorer or "Invasion of the 60s" in Venezuela begins.

June

• 2 June: In the Philippines the Baler Site ends in which a detachment of Spanish soldiers, led by Saturnino Martin Cerezo, remained fighting against Filipino revolutionaries for 337 days, beyond the end of the contest.

July

• July 17th: he arrives in Argentina (from Germany) Christofredo Jakob, who would transform the country's neurobiological tradition into the Argentine-Germana Neurobiological School, where he would train more than four thousand researchers.

August

• August 27: In Rome, Pope Leo XIII erected the diocese of Aguascalientes through a bull.

September

• September 3 and 10: two earthquakes of 8.5 and 8.6 respectively shake the Yakutat Bay in Alaska.
• 20 September: In the Turkish cities of Aydin and Denizli there is an earthquake of 7.1 that leaves more than 1,400 dead.
• September 30: In the Indonesian island of Ceram there is a strong earthquake of 7.8 that causes a tsunami of 10 meters.

October

• October 11: In South Africa the war begins.
• October 17: In Colombia the War of the Thousand Days explodes, with the uprising in El Socorro.
• 19 October: in Medellín (Colombia) the first car, of French manufacture, is imported.
• October 22: In Venezuela, Cipriano Castro took office after overthrowing Ignacio Andrade.

November

• 29 November: in Spain the FCBarcelona club founded by the Swiss Hans Gamper.

December

• 24 December: Pope Leo XIII opened the "Holy Gate" on the occasion of the Jubilee of 1899-1900.
• December 25: In San Jacinto (California), there is a 6.7 earthquake that leaves 6 people dead.
• David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
• Germany acquires the Carolinas, Marianas and Palaos islands after buying them to Spain.
• In Sonora, Mexico, the city of Agua Prieta is founded.

Art and literature

• Piotr Kropotkin publica Prisons (see the book online).
• Rudyard Kipling publica The Charge of the White Man.
• Sorolla: public Beaches of Valencia.
• Louis Sullivan: Carson, Pirie and Scott Stores.

Science and technology

• Sigmund Freud publishes the book The interpretation of dreams (with an advanced date of 1900 on the cover), trying to expose the importance of his discovery of the unconscious.

Sports

Football

• January 8: The SK Rapid Vienna football club was founded in Austria.
• 4 February: In Germany the Werder Bremen football club was founded.
• February 16: The football club KR Reykjavík was founded in Iceland.
• May 14: In Uruguay the football team Club Nacional de Football is founded.
• May 31: in Hungary was founded the football club Ferencvárosi Torna Club.
• August 31: in France was founded the football club Olympique de Marseille.
• 29 November: in Spain was founded the football team Fútbol Club Barcelona.
• December 16: the football club AC Milan was founded in Italy.

Tennis

• Universidad de Estados Unidos:
  • Individual winner: Marion Jones by the United States.
  • Individual winner: Malcolm Whitman by the United States.

• Wimbledon Championship:
  • Individual winner: Blanche Bingley by United Kingdom.
  • Individual winner: Reginald Doherty by UK.

• French Championship:
  • Individual winner: Adine Masson for France.
  • Individual winner: Paul Aymé by UK.

Cinema

Births

January

• 4 January: Maria Archer, Portuguese writer (f. 1982)
• 7 January:
  • Franciska Clausen, Danish painter (f. 1986)
  • Francis Poulenc, French composer (f. 1963).
• January 11: Grete L. Bibring, an Austrian psychoanalyst (f. 1977)
• January 13: Rómulo Rozo, an American sculptor and painter of Colombian origin (f. 1964)
• 14 January: Carlos P. Rómulo, politician and Philippine authority (f. 1985)
• January 17th: Al Capone, capo de la mafia Unida (f. 1947).
• 19 January:
  • Juan José Morosoli, Uruguayan writer (f. 1957).
  • Josep Tarradellas, Spanish politician, president of the Generality of Catalonia in exile (f. 1988).
• 25 January: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (f. 1972).
• 30 January:
  • Manuel López Quiroga, pianist and Spanish composer (f. 1988).
  • Max Theiler, South African virologist, nobel medical prize in 1951 (f. 1972).

February

• February 4: Virginia M. Alexander, American physician (f. 1949).

Ramón Novarro

• February 6: Ramón Novarro, actor and Latinlover (f. 1968)
• February 15: Gale Sondergaard, American actress (f. 1985).
• February 17: Sybil Brand, American philanthropist and activist (f. 2004)
• February 27: Salvador Reyes Figueroa, Chilean writer (f. 1970)

March

• 1 March: Alfredo Mario Ferreiro, Uruguayan writer (f. 1959).
• 2 March: Adolfo Bellocq, a painter of mackerel, engraver, teacher and Argentine xilographer (f. 1972).
• March 4: Emilio Prados, a Spanish poet, belonging to the Generation of 27 (f. 1962).
• 11 March: Federico IX of Denmark (f. 1972).
• 12 March:
  • Juana Manrique de Lara Bibliotecaria mexicano (f. 1983).
  • Ramón Mutis Argentine footballer (f. 1992).
• March 20:Evelyn M. Anderson, American physiologist and biochemistry (f. 1985)
• March 29: Lavrenti Beria, Soviet Marshal (f. 1953).
• March 31: Franz Völker, German tenor (f. 1965).

April

• April 9: Rafael Porlán, Spanish poet of the Generation of 27 (f. 1945).
• 13 April: Alfred Schütz, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (f. 1959).
• 19 April:
  • Virginia Fox, prolific American actress. (f. 1982)
  • Arturo Iglesias Paiz, Argentine military, governor of Formosa (f. 1966).
• April 21: Randall Thompson, American composer (f. 1984).
• April 22:Kate Isabel Campbell, Australian doctor and pediatrician (f. 1986)
• April 23: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (f. 1977).
• April 25: María Villar Buceta, poetess, journalist and Cuban activist (f. 1977).
• April 26: Juana Mordó, a Spanish national art dealer (f. 1984).
• April 29: Duke Ellington, American composer, director and pianist of jazz (f. 1974).

May

• 8 May:
  • Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor and singer (f. 1959).
  • Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1974 (f. 1992).
  • Jacques Heim, French fashion designer (f. 1967).
• May 10: Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (f. 1987).
• May 11: Paulino Masip, Spanish film writer and screenwriter (f. 1963).
• 17 May: Anita Conti, the first French oceanographer, explorer and photographer (f. 1997).

Lydia Cabrera

• May 20:Lydia Cabrera, Ethnologa, Cuban researcher and narrator (f. 1991)
• 24 May:
  • Concha Michel, tuna singer, composer, political communist activist, playwright and Mexican researcher (f. 1990).
  • Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player, Olympic medalist (f. 1938).
• May 26: Juan Max Boettner, doctor and musical composer Paraguay (f. 1958).
• May 30: Irving Thalberg, American film producer (f. 1936).

June

• June 6: Philomeno Ormeño Belmonte, Peruvian composer, orchestrator and pianist (f. 1975).
• 7 June: Alan Hug Hillgarth, a member of the British Royal Navy and consul of the United Kingdom in the Balearic Islands during the Spanish civil war (n. 1978).
• 9 June:
  • José Miguel Alvarado Cruz, educator, teacher, accountant and Ecuadorian entrepreneur (f. 1974).
  • Carlos Luis Sáenz, writer, poet, politician and Costa Rican educator (f. 1983).
• June 11: Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, nobel literature award in 1968 (f. 1972).
• June 13: Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (f. 1978).
• 20 June:
  • Jean Moulin, French politician and military (f. 1943).
  • Adolfo S. Scilingo, Argentine diplomat (f. 1973).
• June 22: Manuel Zárate, teacher and Panamanian folklorist (f. 1968).
• June 26: Maria Nikoláievna Romanova, Russian aristocrat (f. 1918).
• 27 June: Viktoria Savs, soldier and Austrian nurse (f. 1979)

July

Felipe Pinglo Alva

• July 1st: Indiana Jones, famous adventurer and archaeologist
• July 10: Alfredo Alegría Rosales, a Nicaraguan poet (f. 1974).
• July 11: E. B. White, American writer (f. 1985).
• July 16:Eunice Carter was one of the first African American lawyers in New York State (f. 1970)
• 21 July: Ernest Hemingway, American writer (f. 1961).
• 18 July:
  • Felipe Pinglo Alva, Peruvian composer (f. 1936).
  • Juan Julio Arrascaeta, a poet of Africanuruguayo (f. 1988).
• 21 July: Esther Brann, American painter and illustrator (f. 1998).
• July 23: Ruth Ellis, American Afro-descendant LGBT activist (f. 2000).
• July 27:Nelly vanburg, dancer and avant-garde artist from the Netherlands (f.1975)

August

Alfred Hitchcock

• August 1st: William Steinberg, director of orchestra and German musician (f. 1978).
• 2 August: Mario Untersteiner, classic philologist and historian of Italian philosophy (f. 1981).
• 9 August: Armand Salacrou, French playwright (f. 1989).
• August 10: Sofia Álvarez Vignoli, Uruguayan lawyer and policy (f. 1986).
• August 13: Alfred Hitchcock, British filmmaker (f. 1980).
• 15 August: Carola Elena Lorenzini, aviator and Argentine sportsman (f. 1941)

Colleen Moore

• August 19: Colleen Moore, American actress (f. 1988).
• August 23:Constance Jeans, British swimmer, Olympic subfield (f.1984)
• 24 August:
  • Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (f. 1986).
  • Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician (f. 1985).
• 25 August:
  • Irene Caba Alba, Spanish actress (f. 1957).
  • Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (f. 1991).
• 28 August:
  • Mariya Yúdina, Russian pianist (f. 1970).
  • Pedro Maffia, bandoneonist, director, composer and Argentine teacher (f. 1967).

September

• September 3:Errose Bustintza, writer at euskera and ethnografa (f. 1953)
• 9 September:
  • Brassaï (Gyula Halász), French photographer (f. 1984).
  • Mariya Yúdina, a Soviet pianist (f. 1970).
• September 11: Francisco Olazar Argentine football coach (f. 193

Ricardo Cortez

• September 18: Ricardo Cortez (Jacob Krantz), actor and latin lover (f. 1977).
• September 20: Leo Strauss, an American philosopher of German origin (f. 1973).
• 21 September: José Pedroni, Argentine poet (f. 1968).
• September 23:Louise Nevelson, American writer and sculptor of Ukrainian origin (f. 1988)
• September 29: Ladislao José Biro, inventor and journalist from Hungary (f. 1985).

October

• October 16: Donato G. Alarcón Martínez, Mexican doctor, specialist in tuberculosis (f. 1991).
• October 22: Salvador Salazar Arrué, Salvadoran artist in the field of literature and plastic arts (f. 1975).
• October 24: Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas, Bolivian indigenist painter (f. 1950).
• October 28:Ruth Becker, surviving woman of the Titanic (f. 1990)

November

• 10 November:Greta Knutson, painter, art critic, art critic, translator, poet and Swedish writer (f. 1983)
• 12 November:
  • Victorina Durán, Spanish designer and Scenographer (f.1993)
  • Eunice Rivers, African American nurse, coordinator of the Tuskegee experiment on syphilis (f. 1986).
• 17 November: Clotario Blest, Chilean trade union leader (f. 1990).
• November 24: María Luisa Ocampo, Mexican playwright (f. 1974).
• 26 November:
  • Mona Bruns, an American actress who lived 100 years as her husband also an actor (f. 2000)
  • Miguel Román Garrido, a Spanish military officer (f. 1960).
• 28 November:María Cegarra Salcedo, Spanish poet and first woman Bachelor of Chemistry (f. 1993)
• 29 November: Emma Morano, Italian supercentenary. Last living person born in the centuria of 1800. (f. 2017).

December

• 1 December: Andréi Platónov, Russian writer (f. 1951).
• 2 December: John Barbirolli, director of British orchestra and pianist (f. 1970).
• 11 December: Julio de Caro, Argentine musician (f. 1980).

Claudia Lars

• 13 December: César Brañas, journalist, essayist, literary critic and Guatemalan poet (f. 1976).
• December 16: Noël Coward, British actor, composer and writer (f. 1973).
• December 19:Ann Bishop (Biologa) British biologist (f. 1990).
• December 20:Claudia Lars, Salvadoran poet (f. 1974)
• December 25: Humphrey Bogart, American actor (f. 1957).
• 31 December:
  • Silvestre Revols, Mexican composer (f. 1940).
  • Luis Benito Ramos, Colombian photographer (f. 1955).

No known date

María Cegarra Salcedo, Spanish poet and first graduate in chemistry (d. 1993).

Deaths

January

• January 25: Viscount of Taunay, aristocrat, writer, military and political engineer (n. 1843).

February

• February 2nd: Halfdan Egedius, Norwegian sketcher (n. 1877).
• February 16: Felix Faure, French politician, president between 1895 and 1899 (n. 1841).
• 17 February: Jean-Baptiste Gustave Deloye, French sculptor (n. 1838).

March

• March 9: Enrique Villarroya and Llorens, Spanish politician, Marquis (n. 1843).
• March 20: José Chinchilla, Spanish military, governor of Cuba in 1890 (n. 1839).

May

• May 3: José Zapater and Ugeda, a lawyer and a Valencian writer (n. 1826):
• 25 May: Juan Ayala, Argentine military (n. 1828).
• May 25: Emilio Castelar, Spanish politician, president between 1873 and 1874 (n. 1832).

June

• June 5: Antonio Luna, Filipino military (n. 1866).
• June 16: Lucas García Cardona, master of Spanish works (n. 1847).

July

• 21 July: Robert G. Ingersoll, American political and military (n. 1833).

August

• August 9: Jorge Aleksándrovich Romanov, Russian aristocrat (n. 1871).
• August 12: Adolfo Ernst, botanist and Venezuelan-German zoologist (n. 1832).

October

• October 25: Grant Allen, Canadian writer (n. 1848).
• October 30: Arthur Blomfield, British architect (n. 1829).

November

• 16 November: Vincas Kudirka, Lithuanian poet (n. 1858).
• 21 November: María del Carmen González Ramos, Spanish religious (n. 1834).
• 21 November: Garret Hobart, American politician, 24th Vice President between 1897 and 1899 (n. 1844).
• November 28: Countess of Castiglione, an Italian aristocrat (n. 1837).