1900 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1897 1898 1899 – 1900 – 1901 1902 1903

1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian Calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian Calendar. It was the last year of the 19th century.

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Art, music, theatre, literature

May 17 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.

Events

February 9 – The Boers defeat the British at Ladysmith, South Africa.
The Olympic Games took place in Paris.

Births

March 29 – John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
April 16 – Polly Adler, Russian writer (d. 1962)
April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)
June 17 – Martin Bormann, Nazi-German politician (d. 1945)
August 4 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official (d. 1945)
November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

Deaths

June 5 – Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871)
August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

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In Spanish: 1900 para niños

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