* 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

* 1900: Sanford Alexander Moss publishes a paper on turbocompressors.

In the summer of 1900, King Alexander suddenly announced his engagement to the widowed Madame Draga Mašin, formerly a lady-in-waiting to his mother.

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

His best-known work is the Manual of Private Devotions, edited by Alexander Whyte ( 1900 ), which has widespread appeal.

** Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer ( b. 1900 )

In February of 1900 he was arrested again and served his time at first in the Alexander Citadel in Warsaw and later at the Siedlce prison.

Although Alexander Stepanovich Popov of the Naval Warfare Institute had built and demonstrated a wireless telegraphy set in 1900, equipment from the firm Telefunken in Germany was initially adopted by the Imperial Russian Navy.

In the late 1930s and 40s, British County Court judge Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark ( 1900 – 1958 ) published a number of detective novels under the alias Cyril Hare in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English legal system.

( See also Margiad Evans Whistler ( 1909 – 58 ); Richard Hughes ( 1900 – 76 ); Alexander Cordell ( 1914 – 97 ).

In 1900, Mellon, then 45 years old, married Nora Mary McMullen ( 1879 – 1973 ), a 20-year-old Englishwoman who was the daughter of Alexander P. McMullen, a major shareholder of the Guinness Brewing Co.

Among the representatives were the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko ( 1909 – 1989 ); Wellington Koo ( 1887 – 1985 ), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ; and U. S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), each of whom chaired his respective delegation.

She met Alexander von Zemlinsky in early 1900, began composition lessons with him that fall, and continued as his student until her engagement with Gustav Mahler ( December 1901 ), after which she ceased composing.

On December 1, 1900, Gardener, accompanied by Alexander von Zemlinsky, sang Schenker's Wiegenlied, Op.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

* Alexander Clark Murray ( politician ) ( 1900 – 1983 ), Canadian Member of Parliament for Oxford

He won first prizes at very strong tournaments in St Petersburg ( 1895 – 96, Quadrangular ), Nuremberg ( 1896 ), London ( 1899 ), Paris ( 1900 ) and St Petersburg ( 1914 ), where he overcame a 1½ point deficit to finish ahead of the rising stars, Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine, who later became the next two World Champions.

Maria of Yugoslavia (; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961 ) was the Queen consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

Francis, Duke of Teck ( Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander ; 28 August 1837 – 21 January 1900 ), was a member of the German nobility, and later of the British Royal Family.

When it became apparent that the couple were unlikely to have a son, Queen Victoria renamed Alexander Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1900, giving the second dukedom of Fife a special remainder in default of male issue to the Duke's daughters and their agnatic male descendants.

Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, GCB, GCVO, CMG ( Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus ), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck ( 13 August 1868 – 23 October 1927 ), was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of King George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

There have been two creations of the title, the first in 1889 and the second in 1900, both in favour of Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland and 1st Earl of Fife in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

* Alexander Cores ( 1900 – 1994 ) Violinist Dorian String Quartet

Although these characters are fictitious, the bike trip is based on the real bike trek of Max Hirshberg in 1900, and the troubles of gold mine thieving with judicial collusion is based upon the politician Alexander McKenzie and Judge Arthur H. Noyes.

* Alger " Texas " Alexander ( 1900 – 1954 ), American blues singer

The London Hippodrome was built in 1900 by Frank Matcham for Edward Moss for £ 250, 000 as a hippodrome for circus and variety performances.

After Venizelos submitted the complete juridical legislation on 18 May 1900, disagreements between him and Prince George began to emerge.

After completing his education as a physician at the University of Montpellier ( with the thesis L ' Éthiologie du crime et de la dégénérescence – " The Cause of Crime and Degeneration ", submitted in 1897 ), Rakovsky, who had married the Russian student E. P. Ryabova, was summoned to Romania in order to be drafted in the Romanian Army, and served as a medic in the 9th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Constanţa, Dobruja ( 1899 – 1900 ).

In an attempt to work around this poor reputation and make it easier to raise funds, the next bill for an extension of the line was submitted in November 1900 by a notionally separate company, the Islington and Euston Railway ( I & ER ), albeit one that shared its chairman with the C & SLR.

He served as the state revenue agent for the last eight months of 1898 and wrote a report for the special tax commission that was submitted to the legislature in 1900.

This was followed independently by Louis Bachelier in 1900 in his PhD thesis " The theory of speculation ", in which he presented a stochastic analysis of the stock and option markets.

The random character of stock market prices was first modelled by Jules Regnault, a French broker, in 1863 and then by Louis Bachelier, a French mathematician, in his 1900 PhD thesis, " The Theory of Speculation ".

He gained some early fame when his 1900 doctoral thesis, entitled Clifford's parallelism in elliptic spaces, was discussed in a widely-read work on differential geometry published by Bianchi in 1902.

Upon graduating with honours in 1900 from the Carol I High School in Craiova, he studied law in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis Essai sur une théorie des droits éventuels.

In 1896, he enrolled into the Kazan Theological Academy, from which he graduated in 1900, having authored a thesis, “ the Struggle of Christianity against Islam in Georgia .” Tonsured a Hieromonk in 1901, he returned in Georgia where he was made an archimandrite at the Chelishi Monastery in the province of Racha.

He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, which was part of his PhD thesis The Theory of Speculation, ( published 1900 ).

However, one of the earlier works related to Brownian motion is credited to Bachelier ( 1900 ) in his thesis ' Theory of Speculation '.

* Wisconsin from 1911 ( Wisconsin's is generally considered the first modern state income tax, because it was administered not by local elected officials but by state civil servants, and because it taxed income in general, largely by withholding ; the relevant law was largely written by Delos Kinsman, whose 1900 thesis on state income taxes is cited below );

This research led to Simon's medical thesis on the topic in 1900.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

Their interest remains chiefly biographical, for they throw some light on the utter despair which overtook Thompson in the spring and early summer of 1900.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

Poems Of The Past And The Present and Time's Laughing Stocks, both published while Hardy was at work on The Dynasts, draw heavily on poems written before 1900.

Where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

A natural-born subject owes allegiance wherever they may be, so that where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

* 1900 – Philippine – American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U. S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

* 1900 – Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on March 18, 1900.

From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner focused increasingly on his work with the Theosophical Society becoming the secretary of its section in Germany in 1902.

* AT & T Mobility-In areas where AT & T Mobility previously had D-AMPS operating on 1900 MHz frequencies, no analog AMPS network existed, and the D-AMPS network on the 1900 MHz frequency was shut down in mid-2007.

Baseballs cost three dollars apiece, a hefty sum at the time, which in 1900 would be equal to $ today ; club owners were therefore reluctant to spend much money on new balls if not necessary.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

In 1900 the city's College of Art was also opened on Moseley Road.

The decisive colonial battle for Chad was fought on April 22, 1900 at Battle of Kousséri between forces of French Major Amédée-François Lamy and forces of the Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr.

By 1900, most of the industrializing nations were on some form of gold standard, with paper notes and silver coins constituting the circulating medium.

Between 1850 and 1900, Cambridge took on much of its present character — streetcar suburban development along the turnpikes, with working-class and industrial neighborhoods focused on East Cambridge, comfortable middle-class housing being built on old estates in Cambridgeport and Mid-Cambridge, and upper-class enclaves near Harvard University and on the minor hills of the city.