* 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist ( b. 1820 )

* 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician ( b. 1899 )

* Robert Bunsen ( 1811 – 1899 ), German chemist, after whom is named:

* 1899 – Gustav Gründgens, German actor ( d. 1963 )

It was popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin ( 1856 – 1926 ) in 1893, 1896 and 1899 in his first detailed textbook descriptions of a condition that would eventually be reframed into a substantially different disease concept and relabeled as schizophrenia.

* 1899 – Erich Kästner, German writer ( d. 1974 )

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

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.

* 1943 – Wilfrid B. Israel, German activist ( b. 1899 )

* 1820 – Joseph Wolf, German artist ( d. 1899 )

* 1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer ( d. 1968 )

* 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician ( b. 1899 )

* 1899 – Ernst Scheller, German politician ( d. 1942 )

* 1899 – Gustav Heinemann, German politician ( d. 1976 )

In 1899, the Imperial Naval High Command was replaced by the German Imperial Admiralty Staff ( Admiralstab ) responsible for planning, the training of officers, and naval intelligence.

* 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official ( d. 1972 )

* 1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.

* Ludwig Jacoby, ( 1813 – 1874 ), born in Altstrelitz, an author and Methodist clergyman, commissioned as a missionary to St. Louis, Missouri, by the founder of the German Methodist Church in America, William Nast ( 1807 – 1899 ).

Following the Spanish – American War of 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States and sold the remainder of the Marianas ( along with the Caroline Islands ) to Imperial Germany under the German – Spanish Treaty of 1899.

* SS Rhein ( 1899 ), an ocean liner for North German Lloyd

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

German, British and American warships in Apia harbour, 1899.

The Russification of Finland and the crisis of governmental leadership in the country, following the 1899 imperial order, was the result of a collision between the ideologies of peripheral authority ( the Grand Duchy as a state of the Russian empire but a separate part of the Russian governmental system ) and central power ( an undivided Russia dominated by Saint Petersburg ).

The British imperial vision called for control over the new countries and the Dutch-speaking " Boers " ( or " Afrikaners ") fought back in the War in 1899 – 1902.

During his term as Chief Justice Griffith drafted Queensland's Criminal Code, the first successful codification anywhere of the entire English criminal law, which was adopted in 1899, and later in Western Australia, Papua New Guinea, substantially in Tasmania, and other imperial territories including Nigeria.

* The above-mentioned February Manifesto of 1899, the decree by Nicholas II which asserted the imperial government's right to rule Finland without the consent of local legislative bodies, under which:

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, as part of a reform of local government in the County of London, the various parishes in London were reorganised as new entities, the ' metropolitan boroughs '.

During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

In 1899 government legislated that the day be a public holiday from 1900.

While Wake has been administered by the United States since 1899, the Marshallese government refers to it by the name Enen-kio.

Paul Kruger, the President of the South African Republic, issued an ultimatum on 9 October 1899, giving the British government 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the borders of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, failing which the Transvaal, allied to the Orange Free State, would declare war on the British government.

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 a government of both Christians and Moslems was elected under it.

After his brief and unhappy residence in London, from October 1898 to June 1899, he was allowed to return in time to see the government fall.

In 1899, Linton was plotted for the sole purpose of creating a geographically centralized government.

Manteo was named the seat of government for Dare County in 1870, and was incorporated in 1899.

The Enamel Works started in 1899 with a large government contract.

Initially incorporated by an election held on August 30, 1890, the town government appears to have dwindled over the years, and the community was reincorporated in an election held August 29, 1899.

Minister for agriculture, industries, roads and mines for the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong for the Qing Dynasty government in 1899, Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of China ( 1912 )

A later revolutionary government now commonly known as the as First Philippine Republic and also with Aguinaldo as President was inaugurated on 23 January 1899 as the Republica Filipina ( Philippine Republic ).

Curzon had convinced his government to establish Britain as the unofficial protector of Kuwait with the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899.

During the political crisis of the next few years he was recognized by the Opportunist Republicans as the successor of Jules Ferry and Gambetta, and at the crisis of 1899 on the fall of the Charles Dupuy cabinet he was asked by President Émile Loubet to form a government.

James McCauley Landis ( September 25, 1899 – July 30, 1964 ) was an American academic, government official and legal adviser.

In 1899, the McKinley administration settled on occupation as its response to the appearance of a revolutionary government in Cuba following the end of Spanish control.