* 1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

* January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist ( b. 1899 )

* April 16 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1899 )

The Bank of Taiwan was established in 1899 to encourage Japanese private sectors, including Mitsubishi and the Mitsui Group, to invest in Taiwan.

In the aftermath of a protest against Japanese dominance of the Korean Peninsula, Rhee was arrested and charged with sedition on January 9, 1899.

Yoshinoya ( 吉野家, ) is the largest chain of beef bowl ( or gyūdon ) restaurants and one of the Japanese chains of fast food, which was established in Japan in 1899.

It was named Renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa ( 黒岩涙香 ) on December 6, 1899 in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou ( 萬朝報 ).

File: Water-Lilies-and-Japanese-Bridge -( 1897-1899 )- Monet. jpg | Claude Monet, Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, 1897 – 1899

Image: Claude Monet-Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge. jpg | Claude Monet, Japanese Bridge and Water Lilies, c. 1899

* Seito Saibara ( 1899 – 1902 ) Establishment of the U. S. Gulf Coast rice industry in Texas., Japanese politician.

* Jun Ishikawa ( author ) ( 1899 – 1987 ), Japanese author

* Kayo Yamaguchi ( 1899 – 1984 ), a Japanese painter

Educated at the Central Military Preparatory School and the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, he received a commission as a second lieutenant in the IJA 39th Infantry Regiment in 1899.

In February 1899, due to the efforts of the Japanese ambassador, Akiyama received permission to serve a six-month tour on board a US Navy warship, the, where he was able to observe American tactics and fleet operations in the North Atlantic and Caribbean firsthand.

Rugby union was first introduced to Japanese students at Keio University in Japan by Professor Edward Bramwell Clarke ( who was born in Yokohama ) and Tanaka Ginnosuke, both graduates of Cambridge University, in 1899.

* Jones, Geo H. " The Japanese Invasion of Korea-1592 ", The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East, 1899 ( Volume 23, Number 4-5: pp. 215 – 219, pp. 239 – 254 ), China Mail Office.

Other publications were two Japanese grammars ( 1868 and 1872 ) and A History of Japanese Literature ( 1899 ).

The first Japanese Buddhist temple in the continental U. S. was built in San Francisco in 1899, and the first in Canada was built at the Ishikawa Hotel in Vancouver in 1905.

* Hayato Ikeda ( 池田 勇人 ; 1899 – 1965 ), Japanese politician and the 58th, 59th and 60th Prime Minister of Japan

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.

In 1899, the German imperial government assumed direct control of the territory, thereafter known as German New Guinea.

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.

The resolution recognised the Ainu people as " an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture ", and rescinded the law passed in 1899.

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.

In 1899, the U. S. Army built a pack trail for summer use between the port of Valdez and Eagle, which passed through the Copper River Valley.

* George Henry White, attorney, lived in Tarboro when elected in 1898 as last black from the 2nd Congressional District to the U. S. House of Representatives in the late 19th century before the disfranchising constitution was passed in 1899.

In 1899 an act was passed that consolidated the two towns under the name Cottage Grove.

After his death in 1899, the estate passed to each of his surviving children and finally to his grandson Charles Ian Fraser.

British Columbia acted in 1891, Manitoba in 1899, Saskatchewan in 1906, and in Alberta, the first legislation officially passed by the legislative assembly was the Library Act.

When the Spanish Fathers had laid the foundations of the mission, these islands passed by purchase into the hands of Germany in 1899.

On March 2, 1899, President William McKinley signed a bill passed by Congress authorizing the creation of Mount Rainier National Park, the nation's fifth national park.

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

For years Sir John Forrest fought with Robinson over Section 70 and Western Australia unilaterally passed the 1899 Constitution Amendment Act, taking control of Aboriginal Affairs without approval of the British House of Commons.

As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty passed to the Empire of Germany in 1899.

* Signal passed at danger – Arun Bridge, 27 November 1851, head-on collision ; The Clayton Tunnel rail crash, 25 August 1861, an excursion train crashed into another which had stopped in the tunnel, the worst accident to occur up to that time on the British railway system with 23 deaths and 176 injuries ; Wivelsfield, 23 December 1899, a Brighton train ran into the back of a boat train in thick fog.

As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty passed to the Empire of Germany in 1899.

The government passed three major pieces of Irish legislation in four years: apart from the Local Government Act, these were the Land Law ( Ireland ) Act 1896 and the Agriculture and Technical Instruction ( Ireland ) Act 1899.

The county councils created under British rule in 1899 continue to exist in the Republic of Ireland, although they are now governed under legislation passed by Oireachtas Éireann, principally the Local Government Act 2001.

Late in 1899, Vincent left the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, turning down the secondary role in The Rose of Persia when she was passed over to make way for American soprano Ellen Beach Yaw to sing the lead, Sultana Zubeydah.

The Common Council passed a resolution in June 1899 directing those having hay to sell " vacate the plot of land enclosed by the fence.

On 5 August 1899 the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railway Companies Act was passed, which resulted in the formation of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway ( SE & CR ).

He passed out second from Staff College in December 1898 and was then seconded for service in the Intelligence Department at the War Office on 1 April 1899.

On 5 August 1899 the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover Railway Companies Act was passed, which resulted in the formation of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway ( SE & CR ).

He attended several schools in Austria and Germany, until he finally passed his Abitur ( exit examination ) after four attempts, in Bad Hersfeld in 1899.

In 1879, the admiral's eldest son, Frederick, was killed fighting the Zulus, so the title was passed to the second son, Arthur, in 1899.

By a law passed in 1899, the proprietors were bound to arrange for the safe outlet of the water from the mountains, keep the existing canals open, and reclaim the district exposed to inundation, for a period of twenty-four years.