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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1899 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1899
MDCCCXCIX
Ab urbe condita2652
Armenian calendar1348
ԹՎ ՌՅԽԸ
Assyrian calendar6649
Baháʼí calendar55–56
Balinese saka calendar1820–1821
Bengali calendar1306
Berber calendar2849
British Regnal year62 Vict. 1 – 63 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2443
Burmese calendar1261
Byzantine calendar7407–7408
Chinese calendar戊戌年 (Earth Dog)
4596 or 4389
    — to —
己亥年 (Earth Pig)
4597 or 4390
Coptic calendar1615–1616
Discordian calendar3065
Ethiopian calendar1891–1892
Hebrew calendar5659–5660
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1955–1956
 - Shaka Samvat1820–1821
 - Kali Yuga4999–5000
Holocene calendar11899
Igbo calendar899–900
Iranian calendar1277–1278
Islamic calendar1316–1317
Japanese calendarMeiji 32
(明治32年)
Javanese calendar1828–1829
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4232
Minguo calendar13 before ROC
民前13年
Nanakshahi calendar431
Thai solar calendar2441–2442
Tibetan calendar阳土狗年
(male Earth-Dog)
2025 or 1644 or 872
    — to —
阴土猪年
(female Earth-Pig)
2026 or 1645 or 873

1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1899, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January

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January 1: Cuba free.
January 21: Opel car.

February

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March

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March 6: Aspirin.

April

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A timepiece created in Victoria Hong Kong on 25 April 1899
  • April 26Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki.
  • April 28 – The United Kingdom and the Russian Empire sign the Anglo-Russian Agreement formalizing their spheres of influence in China, essentially agreeing that Britain will not seek railway concessions north of the Great Wall of China, and Russia will avoid doing the same in the Yangtze River valley in southern China.[23]
  • April 29Camille Jenatzy of Belgium becomes the first person to drive faster than 100 kilometers per hour, powering his electric racecar at 105.88 kilometres per hour (65.79 mph) at a track at Achères.

May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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Moscow Art Theatre production of Uncle Vanya

December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Antal Páger
Max Theiler

February

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Café Filho
Ramon Novarro

March

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Frederik IX of Denmark
Gloria Swanson
Lavrentiy Beria

April

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Duke Ellington

May

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Fred Astaire
Suzanne Lenglen

June

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July

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George Cukor
James Cagney
Ernest Hemingway

August

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P. L. Travers
Sir Alfred Hitchcock

September

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Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Jimmie Davis

October

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November

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Iskander Mirza
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

December

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Sir Noël Coward
Humphrey Bogart

Date unknown

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Deaths

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Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January–February

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Alfred Sisley
Paul Reuter
Emma Hardinge Britten
Antonio Luna

March–April

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May–June

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July–August

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Robert Bunsen
Gregorio del Pilar
Frances Laughton Mace

September–October

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November–December

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Garret Hobart

Date unknown

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