In 1899, he traveled with Lou and her husband, Friedrich Andreas, to Moscow where he met the novelist Leo Tolstoy.

They met resistance from Berkeley alumni, Northern California members of the state legislature, and Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919, who were all vigorously opposed to the idea of a southern campus.

Following the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, Shackleton transferred to the troopship Tintagel Castle where, in March 1900, he met an army lieutenant, Cedric Longstaff, whose father Llewellyn W. Longstaff was the main financial backer of the National Antarctic Expedition, then being organised in London.

Upon his return to Paris in February 1899, he worked beside Albert Marquet and met André Derain, Jean Puy, and Jules Flandrin.

James met the 27-year-old Andersen in Rome in 1899, when James was 56, and wrote letters to Andersen that are intensely emotional: " I hold you, dearest boy, in my innermost love, & count on your feeling me — in every throb of your soul ".

In December 1899 he returned to Paris to join Augusta Preitinger (" Guus "), whom he had met at the Academy.

The Plains Lodge U. D., held its first meeting on December 29, 1898, and continued to work " Under Dispensation " until the Grand Lodge of Virginia met in Alexandria, Virginia on December 15, 1899, and issued the Lodge a Charter under the name of Cochran Lodge No. 271.

Otherwise, Balakirev remained without a publisher until 1899, when he met the Saint Petersburg music publisher J. H.

* Joseph Conrad's 1899 – 1902 novel, Heart of Darkness, which was met with widespread disapproval by authorities and widespread controversy amongst the public.

The Presbyterian ( Church of Ireland ) congregation established their Blackrock parish in 1895 and met in the Blackrock Town Hall until they built St. Andrew's Church on Mount Merrion Avenue in 1899.

In November 1899, the prominent American anarchist Emma Goldman visited London and Rocker met her for the first time.

She returned to Russia in 1899, at which time she met Vladimir Ilych Ulyanov, a. k. a. Vladimir Lenin.

Section New York, narrowly controlled by the dissident faction, elected such a General Committee, which met for the first time on July 8, 1899.

In 1898 she met Ueda Kisaburō who had previous studies in kamigakari ( spirit possession ) and in 1899 they established the Kinmeikai which became the Kinmei Reigakkai later in the same year.

In 1899 he was appointed by the State Department a delegate from the United States to the Sixth International Prison Congress, which met the next year at Brussels.

The organization, an early American organization dedicated to Christian evangelism, was founded in 1899 at the YMCA in Janesville, Wisconsin by two traveling businessmen who met by chance when they shared a hotel room at the Central House Hotel in Boscobel, Wisconsin and refined their idea in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

In 1897 he was appointed, jointly with Lord Justice Collins, to represent Great Britain on the Venezuela Boundary Commission, which met in Paris in the spring of 1899.

In 1899, Cole met two brothers from Jacksonville Florida who paved the path of the rest of his career in show business: his partnership with James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson, especially J. R. Johnson, lasted until his retirement in 1911.

Paul was the lab assistant in Physics and Electrical Engineering at the ETH Zürich, 1899 – 1900, where he met Albert Einstein.

In 1899, Liang went to Canada, where he met Dr. Sun Yat-Sen among others, then to Honolulu in Hawaii.

In 1899, at Bologoe, she met the painter and archeologist Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich.

Being left her mother's home, Rose hosted a salon there, leading politicians such as Bernhard Ringrose Wise, William Holman, W. M. Hughes and Thomas Bavin met and discussed the drafting of the bill that eventually became the Early Closing Act of 1899.

In 1899 Landauer met the poet and language teacher Hedwig Lachmann, who would later become his second wife.

She may have been introduced to Whistler's work by the art collector Charles Lang Freer, whom she met on Capri around 1899, and who bought one of her early works.

After the letters of Mother Mary of the Divine Heart ( 1863 – 1899 ) requesting, in the name of Christ Himself, to Pope Leo XIII consecrate the entire World to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Father commissions a group of theologians to examine the petition on the basis of revelation and sacred tradition.

In 1899, with Maxim at the controls, the Pope Columbia, a gasoline-powered automobile, won the first closed-circuit automobile race in the US at Branford, Connecticut.

* Arthur Pope 1899, Persian Art Scholar and Administrator

Born in Phenix, Rhode Island, Pope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1899 and Brown University in 1904.

In 1899, Pope Leo XIII sent Gibbons a letter, known by its first words in Latin Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, concerning new opinions on virtue, nature and grace, religious life and other matters, with regard to so called " americanism ".

: Sometime Warden of Racine College by William Cox Pope, ( New York: James Pott & Company, 1899 )

The constitutions were approved and confirmed by Pope Leo XIII on 4 July 1899.

That tendency was addressed by Pope Leo XIII in his 1899 apostolic letter, Testem Benevolentiae.

Roman-born Pope Pius XII ( Eugenio Pacelli ) celebrated his first Holy Mass in front of it on April 1, 1899.

The Baroque additions, however, were removed in the restoration of 1894 – 1899 together with the coat-of-arms of Pope Clement XI.

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 ).

* 1831 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

* April 25 – Leo Najo, American baseball player ( b. 1899 )

* February 24 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1899 )

Finally, by order of Leo XIII, in his encyclical Annum Sacrum ( May 25, 1899 ), as well as on June 11, he consecrated every human to the Sacred Heart.

Leo Strauss ( September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973 ) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy.

Leo Strauss was born in the small town of Kirchhain in Hessen-Nassau, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia ( part of the German Empire ), on September 20, 1899, to Hugo Strauss and Jennie Strauss, née David.

" Strauss, Leo ( 1899 – 1973 )".

Georg Leo Graf von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli (, born Georg Leo von Caprivi ; 24 February 1831 – 6 February 1899 ) was a German major general and statesman, who succeeded Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of Germany.

In 1899, Leo appointed Makarios as Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts taking the name Cyril II.

* Ermac, the Conqueror of Siberia ( 1899 )-by Leo Tolstoy

* Leo Lassen ( 1899 – 1975 ), American baseball announcer

* Leo Mechelin ( 1892 – 1899 )

Finally, in his pastoral letter Testem benevolentiae ( January 22, 1899 ; “ Witness to Our Benevolence ”) addressed to Cardinal James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, Leo condemned other forms of Americanism.

It was composed by order of a council, issued and approved by the pope ; its use has been prescribed by numerous synods throughout the whole Church ; Leo XIII, in a letter to the French bishops ( 8 Sept., 1899 ), recommended the study of the Roman Catechism to all seminarians, and pontiff, Pius X, signified his desire that preachers should expound it to the faithful.

Resurrection (, Voskreseniye ), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.

In Drury's opinion, contemporary society is threatened by a small school of American academics labeled Straussians, after the German born, Jewish-American political scientist, Leo Strauss ( 1899 – 1973 ).

* Leo Strauss ( 1899 – 1973 )