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Events in the year 1900 in Germany.

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Events

  • 4 January
    – Riots break out as miners go on strike.
  • Delagoa Bay in East Africa, on suspicions that it was carrying supplies to Boer troops. The Portuguese colonial Governor of Zambesia is among the passengers.[1] After no supplies are found, the ship and its crew are released on 22 January.[2]
  • 1 March – The German flag is formally hoisted at Apia, the capital of Samoa, and Wilhelm Solf becomes the colony's first governor. Chief Mata'afa, who had fought against the Germans, and Chief Tamasese, who had been the puppet ruler during German occupation, are reconciled.[3] Mata'afa is named as the Paramount Chief of the Western Samoa colony, although Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II is designated as the Paramount King.[4]
  • German Imperial Army
    .
  • Boxers come too close to the German legation, one of them, a young man, is captured by the German guards. Baron von Ketteler, the German minister, thrashes the Boxer with his cane, orders his guards to extend the beating, and warns the Chinese Foreign Ministry (the Zongli Yamen) that the boy will die. Over the next few days, the foreign diplomats begin shooting at Chinese nationals near the legation quarter. Von Ketteler himself would be killed on June 20.[5] The same day, communication between the foreign embassies and the rest of the world is broken off as telegraph lines are severed.[6]
  • 14 June
  • 20 June – Clemens von Ketteler, the German ambassador to China, was murdered as he and an aide went to the Chinese Foreign Ministry (Zongli Yamen) without their guards. With seven hours left until a 4 p.m. deadline for all foreigners to leave Beijing, Baron von Ketteler defied his fellow ambassadors and left the safety of the diplomatic quarter. Von Ketteler was shot and killed (by a Boxer later identified as En Hai) as he approached the Zongli Yamen. His interpreter, Heinrich Cordes, survived to return to the embassy, at which point evacuation was no longer an option.[8] American ambassador Conger would later report that he had learned "that Prince Tuan had planned to have his soldiers massacre all the foreign ministers at the Tsungli Yamen on June 20. But...the impatient soldiers prematurely attacked and killed Baron von Kettler... we were not invited to the Tsungli Yamen, and so were saved. The directive to Mr. Conger stated, "The princes and ministers...beg that within twenty-four hours the minister of the United States, with his family... and taking his guards, keeping them under control, will leave for Tientsin, in order to avoid danger. An escort of troops has been dispatched to give protection en route, and the local officials have been also notified to allow the minister's party to pass."[9] At 4:00 p.m., Chinese troops began their siege of the foreign legations quarter, where 900 foreigners, 523 defenders, and 3,000 Chinese Christians held out behind the walls. The siege would last 55 days.[10]
  • 21 June
    – China formally declares war on Germany.
  • 14 July – In China, Tientsin (Tianjin) is captured by the Allied forces after a three-day battle. The Allies had 775 killed or wounded, mostly from Russian troops and Japanese troops under the command of the Japanese Colonel Kuriya. Parties of German and French soldiers destroyed the enemy's guns, while American, British, Japanese and Austrian troops, and the Welsh Fussillers captured the arsenal.[11]
  • 27 July – Kaiser Wilhelm II gives the infamous "Hun speech" at Bremerhaven as he dispatched troops to fight in China. The most inflammatory line was, "Wie vor tausend Jahren die Hunnen unter ihrem König Etzel sich einen Namen gemacht, der sie noch jetzt in Überlieferung und Märchen gewaltig erscheinen läßt, so möge der Name Deutscher in China auf 1000 Jahre durch euch in einer Weise bestätigt werden, daß es niemals wieder ein Chinese wagt, einen Deutschen scheel anzusehen!".[12] "Just as the Huns under their King Atilla made a name for themselves a thousand years ago which still, in saga and tradition, makes them appear powerful, so may the name "German" be impressed by you for a thousand years, that no Chinese will ever dare again look askance at a German!" [13]
    The Germans were, for a century thereafter, referred to as "Huns".
  • Kaiser Wilhelm I. The former Foreign Secretary succeeded Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe
    , who resigned because of his age (81) and health.
  • Wroclaw, Poland), a woman throws a hatchet at the open carriage of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The "hand chopper" strikes the imperial carriage, and Selma Schnapke, later ruled to be insane, is arrested.[14]
  • 1 December – A census of the German Empire was taken. Provisional figures showed a population of 56,345,014.[15]
  • Baron von Ketteler, Germany's minister to China, on June 20, became the last prominent person to die in the 19th century. Su-Hai was beheaded at the scene of the crime.[16]

Architecture

  • The
    Salzgitter Bismarck Tower
    is completed.

Commerce

Undated

  • The
    Adler
    automobile company is established.

Diplomacy

Education

  • Women in Germany demand the right to participate in university entrance exams.

Science

  • 7 March – A new era in transportation safety began on reports of the first successful transmission of wireless signals from a passenger ship to a distant receiver. The German steamer SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, carrying 1,500 passengers, transmitted from on ship to Borkum, fifty miles away.[22]
  • 7 April – At Thomas Edison's laboratory, an agent of the Goldschmidt Chemische-Thermo Industrie of Essen, Germany, demonstrate a process to melt iron in five seconds. "Louis Dreyfus of Frankfort-on-Main...showed Mr. Edison his new process for attaining an enormous degree of heat in an incredibly short space of time by the combustion of a certain chemical compound which the inventor keeps a secret," the New York Times reported, "then placed a six-inch long iron wrench in a crucible and created a fire that reached 3,000 degrees centigrade."[23]
  • Al Hillah, Iraq), German excavators unearth a glazed amphora with 10,000 coins dating from the 7th century BC.[24]
  • 15 October – Questionnaires are sent to every physician in Germany in the first attempt to make a study on the prevalence of cancer.[25]
  • 14 December – On a date now considered to be the birthday of quantum mechanics, Max Planck presents his paper Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung in Normalspektrum (On the Theory of the Law of Energy Distribution in Normal Spectrum) at a meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin.[26]

Sport

Transport

Publications

  • 24 December – Iskra, a newspaper published by Vladimir Lenin in support of Bolshevik rebellion in Russia, is published for the first time, printed in Leipzig.[33]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "One German Steamer Released," NYT January 10, 1900, p. 1
  2. ^ Herbert Whittaker Briggs, The Law of Continuous Voyage, (William S. Hein Publishing, 2003) pp. 83–4
  3. ^ "Germany in Samoa", New York Times, March 15, 1900, p. 7
  4. ^ "Tutuila (U.S.)", The Atlantic Monthly, 1904, p. 213
  5. ^ Lanxin Xiang, The Origins of the Boxer War, pp. 268–9.
  6. ^ Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace (Da Capo Press, 2003), p. 76
  7. ^ Lanxin Xiang, The Origins of the Boxer War, p. 269.
  8. ^ Lanxin Xiang, The Origins of the Boxer War pp. 335–7
  9. ^ Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States (G.P.O. 1902) p. 191
  10. ^ Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace (Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. 79–80
  11. ^ "Allies Victorious; Tien-Tsin Captured", New York Times, July 18, 1900, p. 1
  12. ^ "De 'Hunnenrede' van Keizer Wilhelm II - Bremerhaven 27 juli 1900".
  13. ^ Manfred Jonas, The United States and Germany: A Diplomatic History (Cornell University Press, 1985) p. 63
  14. ^ "Attempt to Kill Emperor William", New York Times, November 17, 1900, p. 7
  15. ^ The American Monthly Review of Reviews (July 1901) p. 90; "Geographic Notes" National Geographic (July 1901), p. 123
  16. ^ "His Head Is Off", Fort Wayne Sentinel, January 1, 1901, p. 1
  17. ^ Robert von Ostertag, Handbook of Meat Inspection (translated by Earley Vernon Wilcox) (Jenkins, 1907), p iii
  18. ^ Anton A. Huurdeman, The Worldwide History of Telecommunications (Wiley-IEEE, 2003), pp. 308–9
  19. ^ (Annual Register of World Events 1900, p. 6; "Samoa Treaty in Full Effect", New York Times February 17, 1900, p. 4
  20. ^ "Yangtze Agreement", Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996), p. 1176
  21. ^ The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary, 1879-1914 Translated by Denys Peter Myers, John Gilman D'Arcy Paul, p. 115
  22. ^ "Messages From a Vessel", New York Times, March 8, 1900, p1
  23. ^ "Iron Melts in Five Seconds", New York Times, April 9, 1900, p. 1
  24. ^ T. Boiy, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta (Peeters Publishers, 2004), p. 46
  25. ^ Isabel dos Santos Silva, Cancer Epidemiology: Principles and Methods (IARC, 1999), p386
  26. ^ Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: The Quantum Theory of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Sommerfeld : Its Foundation and the Rise of Its Difficulties 1900-1925 (Springer, 2000), pp. 50–3
  27. ^ "News of the Week", Public Opinion, 18 January 11900, p. 91
  28. ^ History of the Canal System of the State of New York (1905), pp. 1481–2
  29. ^ "Over 200 Perish in Burning Liners", New York Times, July 30, 1900, p1
  30. ^ Brian J. Cudahy, Around Manhattan Island and Other Maritime Tales of New York (Fordham Univ Press, 1997).
  31. ^ "Zeppelin, Ferdinand", The Americana (Scientific American, 1911)
  32. ^ "The Loss of the Gneisenau", New York Times, December 18, 1900, p. 1
  33. ^ Leonard Bertram Schapiro, The Government and Politics of the Soviet Union (Taylor & Francis, 1977), p. 22
  34. ^ Frauke Josenhans: "Eschke, (Wilhelm Benjamin) Hermann" In: Savoy, Bénédicte und Nerlich, France (Hrsg.): Pariser Lehrjahre. Ein Lexikon zur Ausbildung deutscher Maler in der französischen Hauptstadt. Band 2: 1844–1870. Berlin/Boston 2015.
  35. ^ Bernd Rühle. "Carl Bechstein (1826-1900) Über Leben und Lebenswerk eines grossen Klavierbauers..." (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  36. ^ "Programme". Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1920. p.88.
  37. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Liebknecht, Wilhelm" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 592.
  38. ^ "Becker, the Artist, Dead". The New York Times. 21 December 1900. p. 8.
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