Wikipedia: 1899

1899
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January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.
January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City
January 3 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times
January 17 - United States takes possession of Wake Island
January 19 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed
January 21 - Opel Motors opens for business
January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation
February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 4 - Philippine-American War
February 6 - Spanish-American War: A peace treaty between the United States and Spain is ratified by the United States Senate.
February 14 - Voting machines are approved by the United States Congress for use in federal elections.
March 2 - In Washington, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair.
October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts.
David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie.
Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition.

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