The Gaithersburg Latitude Observatory was one of six observatories — and one of the four original observatories built by 1899 — tracking the degree of " wobble " occurring on the earth ’ s north-south axis and resultant variation of latitude.

The Gaithersburg observatory was established as part of the International Polar Motion Service in 1899.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

In Bulgaria, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union ( BZNS ) was organized in 1899 to resist taxes and build cooperatives.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The 1899 act mentioned above was replaced in 1997 — until then the government had stated there were no ethnic minority groups.

In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.

The location of Carrizozo was selected as the site for a station on the El Paso and Northeastern Railway ( EP & NE ) main line in 1899.

Its themes have been selected as material for the operetta Wiener Blut ( 1899 ) of which Strauss himself did not compose any new music, instead relying on Adolf Müller Jr. to arrange from Strauss ' previous compositions.

He was selected to represent Victoria against Tasmania in Hobart in January 1899, as one of seven in the squad making their first-class cricket débuts.

His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.

Frame from one of Gheorghe Marinescu | Marinescu's science films ( 1899 ).

In the sixth edition of the Lehrbuch in 1899 all three of these clinical types are treated as different expressions of one disease, dementia praecox.

The multi-shot films that Georges Méliès made in 1899 were much longer than those made by anybody else, but l ' Affaire Dreyfus ( The Dreyfus Case ) and Cendrillon ( Cinderella ) still contained no action moving from one shot to the next one.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

In the years that followed, other states subscribed to limitations of their conduct, and numerous other treaties and bodies were created to regulate the conduct of states towards one another in terms of these treaties, including, but not limited to, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in 1899 ; the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the first of which was passed in 1907 ; the International Court of Justice in 1921 ; the Genocide Convention ; and the International Criminal Court, in the late 1990s.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

The 1962 Mets posted a 40 – 120 record, one of the worst in major-league history, and the most losses in one season since 1899.

At the same time the Geological Society of America published the “ Physiography and Geology of Region Adjacent to the Nicaragua Canal Route ” in its Bulletin in May 1899 which stands to this day as one of the most detailed geological surveys of the San Juan river region.

The Cadet Corps performed well, helping in the defense of the town ( 1899 – 1900 ), and were one of the many factors that inspired Baden-Powell to form the Scouting movement.

Between 1891 and 1905, 46 elections were deadlocked, in 20 different states ; in one extreme example, a Senate seat for Delaware went unfilled from 1899 until 1903.

The Marguerites Club is one of the oldest surviving College societies, reformed in 1899 by Gilbert Jessop the then captain of CUCC.

Dzerzhinsky subsequently became one of the founders of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ) in 1899.

World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.

A minority government led by the party was formed in Queensland in 1899 with Anderson Dawson as the Premier of Queensland where it was founded and was in power for one week, the world's first democratic socialist party led government.

In 1899 Berhardt took over the former Théâtre des Nations on the Place du Châtelet, renaming it the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt and opening on 21 January in one of her most admired parts, the title role in Victorien Sardou's La Tosca.

During the Second Boer War, British troops successfully used the lance on one occasion-against retreating Boers at the Battle of Elandslaagte ( 21 October 1899 ).

4 ( 1899 ), a programmatic work for string sextet that develops several distinctive " leitmotif "- like themes, each one eclipsing and subordinating the last.

Two poems were entitled " Dreyfus "— one published in 1898, and another in 1899 — and a third, published in 1906, entitled " Le Grand Salut ".

Its tram system was completed in 1892, while its theater was opened in 1899 ; until World War II, Gleiwitz ' theatre featured actors from through Europe and was one of the most famous theatres of entire Germany.