Important Historical Events of the year 1899, Year 1899 in History

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List of 1899 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1899

What happened in the year 1899?

Date	Event
January 1, 1899	Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
January 17, 1899	The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
January 19, 1899	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
January 23, 1899	The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president.
February 2, 1899	The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 4, 1899	The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila.
February 6, 1899	Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
February 14, 1899	Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
February 15, 1899	Tsar Nicholas II of Russia issues a declaration known as the February Manifesto, which reduces the autonomy of the Grand Duchy of Finland, thus beginning the first period of oppression.
February 16, 1899	Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
February 22, 1899	Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
March 4, 1899	Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
March 6, 1899	Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
March 18, 1899	Phoebe, a satellite of Saturn, becomes first to be discovered with photographs, taken in August 1898, by William Henry Pickering.
March 27, 1899	Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
March 30, 1899	German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
March 31, 1899	Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
April 18, 1899	The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
May 8, 1899	The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
May 10, 1899	Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.[25]
May 30, 1899	Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
June 7, 1899	American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
June 12, 1899	New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
July 11, 1899	Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 17, 1899	NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
July 26, 1899	Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
July 29, 1899	The First Hague Convention is signed.
August 15, 1899	Fratton Park football ground in Portsmouth, England is officially first opened.
September 13, 1899	Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
September 13, 1899	Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m
September 23, 1899	The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
October 11, 1899	The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.
November 2, 1899	The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
November 28, 1899	The Second Boer War: A British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
November 29, 1899	FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
December 2, 1899	Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, known as the "Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
December 11, 1899	Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
December 15, 1899	British Army forces are defeated at the Battle of Colenso in Natal, South Africa, the third and final battle fought during the Black Week of the Second Boer War.