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.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann ( November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936 ) was a German ex-convict sentenced to death for the abduction and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

Former fireman, Đura Knežević, who was sentenced to death, tried to assassinate ex-king Milan in June 1899 ( Serbian: Ивандањски атентат ).

After a failed coup in 1899, Paul Déroulède was sentenced to exile from France for 10 years and the Ligue was dissolved.

The disastrous 1899 season would actually be a step toward a new future for Cleveland fans the next year.

Smith and the other lesser producers were joined by Cecil Hepworth in 1899, and in a few years he was turning out 100 films a year, with his company becoming the largest on the British scene.

Spain sold the islands to Germany in 1899 under the terms of the German – Spanish Treaty of that year.

World War II brought to Rüsselsheim the only year in the entire history of Opel – 1945 – in which it produced no vehicles at all, since that first Lutzmann-authored Opel was made in 1899.

One year after the United States invasion of the island, Dr. José Celso Barbosa embraced the idea of annexation as a U. S. state as a solution to the colonial situation and founded the Republican Party in 1899.

The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899 – 1901 period ( i. e. just prior to the Blue Period ) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.

Kruger won another presidential election in 1898, but the following year British forces were gathering on the borders of the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State and fearing Britain's imminent annexation, the Boers launched a preemptive strike against the nearby British colonies in 1899, a strike which became the Second Boer War.

Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar.

There is also information on size of the company from 1899 police report investigating child labor complaints ( the company had 72 employees that year ).

Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest, is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a " Machine for making wire paper clips.

However, the first motorized ambulance was brought into service in the last year of the 19th century, with the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, taking delivery of the first automobile ambulance, donated by 500 prominent local businessmen, in February 1899.

In 1899, sales hit 300 ; total car sales for all of France that year were 1200.

In 1899 the law of that year created for each regiment of Zouaves a 5th Battalion, " to be stationed in France " in groupes des 5e bataillons de Zouaves.

:: This article covers in brief the history of California until the year 1899 ; for later events, see History of California 1900 to present.

They only remained at this ground for a year as in April 1899, 14, 000 fans turned up to watch Spurs play Woolwich Arsenal.

In 1899, after a year of unhappy, initial employment at the College for Women of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, he became an instructor in psychology at Teachers College at Columbia University, where he remained for the rest of his career, studying human learning, education, and mental testing.

It is the U. S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck ( North Dakota ).

It published its results early the next year ,( 65 ) but nothing ever came of the effort, because in 1899, the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company was one of the 13 independent car builders that merged to form the American Car & foundry Company.

.. the first electric lights were turned on in the old Methodist Church in the year 1899?

Chase was re-elected to this position in 1899 but defeated the following year.

The Hampton Fire Company began in 1899 as the Junction Fire Company following the completion of the borough wide water system, including hydrants, in that same year.

Madison annexed additional portions of Chatham Township in 1891, and annexed more each year from 1894 – 1898, followed finally, by an exchange of some lands in 1899 with Chatham Township.

Madison annexed additional portions of Chatham Township in 1891, and again each year from 1894 – 1898, which was followed by an exchange of certain lands in 1899 with Chatham Township.

The work was first performed at the Teatro Regio di Parma that same year and was mounted at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1899.