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.

Articles published in the 1970s and later suggest that Debierne's results published in 1904 conflict with those reported in 1899 and 1900.

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 resolution recognised the Ainu people as " an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture ", and rescinded the law passed in 1899.

The 1899 trip to Australia saw a reversion to red, white and blue jerseys, but with the blue used in thick hoops and the red and white in thin bands.

Chile also temporarily resolved its border disputes with Argentina with the Puna de Atacama Lawsuit of 1899, the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina and the 1902 General Treaty of Arbitration.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

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

The professor called his works " studies with the help of the cinematograph ," and published the results, along with several consecutive frames, in issues of " La Semaine Médicale " magazine from Paris, between 1899 and 1902.

The French navy, an extensive user of torpedo boats, built its first torpedo boat destroyer in 1899, with the Durandal-class ' torpilleur d ' escadre '.

It was finished in 1894 with 18 volumes, with two supplement volumes ( 1896 – 1899 ).

" In 1899, at the age of thirty-four, Munch began an intimate relationship with Tulla Larsen, a " liberated " upper-class woman.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

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.

The most important development in this area of special techniques occurred, arguably, in 1899, with the production of the short film Matches: An Appeal, a thirty-second long stop-motion animated piece intended to encourage the audience to send matches to British troops fighting the Boer War.

* 1899 – The Philippine-American War begins with the Battle of Manila.

* Lessing ’ s Emilia Galotti, with footnotes and vocabulary ; New York, Hinds & Noble, 1899.

* 1899: In Budapest is a 1. 5 km long test track with three-phase electric power for electric railways put into operation.

From 1894 to 1899 he then worked with Édouard Naville at Deir el-Bahari, where he recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.

Maxim Gorky's best known short story is " Twenty-six Men and a Girl " ( 1899 ).

By October 1899 the Transvaal State Artillery had 73 guns, of which 59 of them were new, including four 155-mm Creusot fortress guns, and 25 37mm Maxim Nordenfeldt guns.

Among his 60 plays, his most famous are: Une puce à l ' oreille ( A Flea in Her Ear, 1907 ), Le Système Ribadier ( 1892 ), La Dame de Chez Maxim ( The Girl from Maxim's, 1899 ), and Hortense a dit: " Je m ' en fous!

Also in Britain Percy Pilcher, who had worked for Maxim and had built and successfully flown several gliders during the mid to late 1890s, constructed a prototype powered aircraft in 1899 which, recent research has shown, would have been capable of flight.

He completed his theology degree in 1899 and published his PhD thesis at the University of Tübingen in 1899.

In 1899 Schweitzer became a deacon at the church Saint-Nicolas of Strasbourg.

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 memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.

He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

From 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest.

Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 – 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

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

* 1899 – Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.

Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

To make Robert Paul's On a Runaway Motor Car through Piccadilly Circus ( 1899 ), the camera was turned very slowly, so that when the film was projected at the usual 16 frames per second, the scenery appeared to be passing at great speed.

* 1900 – The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.

* Biography of F. A. Hayek ( 1899 – 1992 ) and papers at the Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Finnish labour movement, which emerged at the end of the 19th century from folk, temperance, and religious movements, as well as fennomania, had a Finnish nationalist, working-class character, and was represented by the Social Democratic Party, established in 1899.

Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

Geelong holds a number of league records including the longest winning streak in AFL / VFL history ( 23 games ); the most goals kicked in a single game ( on two occasions-37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 and 37. 11 ( 233 ) against Melbourne in 2011 ); the highest score recorded in a single game ( 37. 17 ( 239 ) against Brisbane in 1992 ; the highest-ever aggregate season total for points scored ( 3, 334 points in 1992 ); the record for restricting an opponent to the lowest ever score in a game ( St Kilda 0. 1 ( 1 ) in 1899 ); the most consecutive 100-point victories ( 3 games in a row, in 1989 ); the longest winning streak in interstate games ( 12 games ) and achieved the longest home ground winning streak in VFL / AFL history — 29 games straight at Simonds Stadium ( also known as Kardinia Park ).