Everything thus turns upon the status and meaning of clause 2 in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, which provides: " The provisions of this Act referring to the Queen shall extend to Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.

* 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( d. 2002 )

The letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900 creating the office of Governor-General.

* 1900 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives Royal Assent to an Act creating Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

* March 30 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ( née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ), queen consort of George VI and mother of Elizabeth II ( b. 1900 )

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

In the summer of 1900 the British naval vessel HMS Vulcan visited Tavolara, and the officers took a photograph of King Carlo and his family to hang in Queen Victoria's collection of royal portraits in Buckingham Palace.

By May, 1900, the Queen was worried that the Boers would intervene against her in case of a succession dispute.

By November 1900, the Queen was able to assure both Roberts and Smuts that she " was doing her best to drive Boers out of her country ".

Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900 ; Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841, became an official divinity school of the university in 1901 ; Goldsmiths College joined in 1904 ; Imperial College was founded in 1907 ; Queen Mary College joined in 1915 ; the School of Oriental and African Studies was founded in 1916 ; and Birkbeck joined in 1920.

Queen Guinevere's maying by John Collier ( artist ) | John Collier, 1900

The Homer E. Sargent House on Lake Avenue, currently a privately-owned domestic dwelling of the Queen Anne architectural style and significant of the periods 1875 – 1899 and 1900 – 1924, was added to the Register in 1988.

Queen Sofia in royal robes, ca 1900.

* Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( 1900 – 2002 ), queen consort, queen dowager and queen mother of the United Kingdom ( known from 1952 until her death as Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother )

Margherita of Savoy ( Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna ; 20 November 1851 – 4 January 1926 ), was the Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy during the reign ( 1878 – 1900 ) of her husband, Umberto I.

* 9 January 1878 – 29 July 1900 Her Majesty The Queen of Italy

* 29 July 1900 – 4 January 1926 Her Majesty The Queen Mother

Externally, the distinctive metal portico over the main door was erected for the visit of Queen Victoria in 1900.

It was largely due to Chamberlain's tireless enthusiasm that the university was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria on 24 March 1900.

* 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge ( 2 ft 6 in or 762 mm ) Railway ( now the Puffing Billy Railway ) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

* 1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

Picnic at Hanging Rock centers around a trip by a party of girls from Appleyard College, a fictitious upper class private boarding school, who travel to Hanging Rock in the Mount Macedon area, Victoria, for a picnic on Valentine's Day 1900.

Nothing remains of the original 1800 settlement ; the downtown Vieux-Hull sector was destroyed by a terrible fire in 1900 which also destroyed the original pont des Chaudières ( Chaudière Bridge ), a road bridge which has since been rebuilt to join Ottawa to Hull at Victoria Island.

Nothing remains of the original 1800 settlement ; the downtown Vieux-Hull sector was destroyed by a terrible fire in 1900 which also destroyed the original pont des Chaudières ( Chaudière Bridge ), a road bridge which has since been rebuilt to join Ottawa to Hull at Victoria Island.

Mackey and colleagues found the highest amount of carbon was contained in a forest located in Victoria ’ s Central Highlands, which held 1900 tonnes of carbon per hectare.

but when he joined the Irish Guards in 1997, a regiment of the British Army created in 1900 by Queen Victoria he was 23 years old and the age limits for the Irish Army is over 17 years and under 25 years of age.

He was baptised at the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 17 May 1900, by Randall Thomas Davidson, Bishop of Winchester, and his godparents were: Queen Victoria ( his great-grandmother ); the German Emperor ( his cousin, for whom Prince Albert of Prussia stood proxy ); Princess Henry of Battenberg ( his paternal grandaunt ); the Duchess of Cumberland ( his paternal grandaunt, whose sister, his grandmother the Princess of Wales represented her ); Prince George of Greece ( his cousin, for whom Prince Henry's paternal grandfather the Prince of Wales stood proxy ); Princess Carl of Denmark ( his paternal aunt, for whom her sister Princess Victoria of Wales stood proxy ); Prince Alexander of Teck ( his maternal uncle, for whom Prince Henry's granduncle the Duke of Cambridge stood proxy ); and Field Marshal The Earl Roberts ( for whom General Sir Dighton Probyn stood proxy ).

Letters patent issued by Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of Federation of Australia | Federation

The next creation of a title of Kent, was not that of Duke or Marquess, but rather that of Earl, with the creation of Prince Alfred ( 1844 – 1900 ), the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, as Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Ulster, and of Kent in 1866.

When it became apparent that the couple were unlikely to have a son, Queen Victoria renamed Alexander Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1900, giving the second dukedom of Fife a special remainder in default of male issue to the Duke's daughters and their agnatic male descendants.

* Charles Hayward ( musician ), 25th mayor of Victoria, British Columbia ( 1900 – 1902 )

In 1900, Beck founded the London Health Association, which would later develop into the University and Victoria Hospitals.

Therefore, on 24 April 1900, Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent creating a second Dukedom of Fife, along with the Earldom of Macduff in the Peerage of the United Kingdom with a special remainder: in default of a male heir, these peerages would pass to the daughters of the 1st Duke and then to their male descendants.

In 1900 it had a membership of 17, 000, mainly in Victoria.

His appointment was approved by Queen Victoria on 14 July 1900 and on 29 October were issued letters patent constituting the office and his own instructions.

The Queen Victoria Building on York Street, Sydney | York Street, looking toward the Sydney Town Hall, c. 1900.

Bridge roundel with the original borough seal and the year 1900, including the VR designation for Queen Victoria The borough council's coat of arms, granted by the College of Arms on 5 April 1902, was based on the former Paddington vestry seal.

In 1900, Mountain Lodge, on Victoria Peak, was built as an alternate summer home for the Governor, a role it retained until 1934.

By January 1900 this would become the largest force Britain had ever sent overseas, amounting to some 180, 000 men with further reinforcements being sought.

The State of Texas ended free use of its land in 1900, and state agents were sent across West Texas to collect rents from ranchers on public land.

In 1900, the Japanese government sent Natsume to study in Great Britain as " Japan's first Japanese English literary scholar ".

A draft treaty was sent to the United States Senate by U. S. President William McKinley on 5 February 1900.

Also in 1900 Zitkala-Ša was sent by Carlisle's founder, Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, back to the Yankton Reservation for the first time in several years to collect students.

During the autumn of 1900 he went to China as part of the international expedition sent to combat the Boxer Rebellion.

By 1900, Elles was Military Secretary to Lord Curzon and Trenchard ( recently promoted to captain ) sent a priority signal to Elles requesting that he be permitted to rejoin his unit overseas.

In 1900, many of the buildings had survived or had been restored were burnt for good by the expeditionary forces sent to quell the Boxer Rebellion.

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A well known example is the 1900 Morgan silver dollar, when reverse dies with " CC " below the eagle were sent from the Carson City mint to the New Orleans Mint where they were given an " O ".

There being no capital punishment in Italy at the time, he was sentenced in Milan on August 29, 1900, to penal servitude for life on Santo Stefano Island near Ventotene, where numerous other anarchists had also been sent over the years.

Liu Shipei ( 劉師培 ; 1884 – 1919 ) claimed that the 1900 international expedition sent by eight foreign powers to suppress the Boxer Uprising entered Beijing in the 4611th year of the Yellow Emperor.

Only postal and customs revenues were continued to be sent to Beijing, because they had been pledged to the victorious foreign powers after the failed Boxer rebellion of 1900, and Zhang feared their intervention.

Captain Harvie sent a telegram to the Northern Lighthouse Board dated 26 December 1900, stating:

Between 1900 and 1908, he accompanied four eclipse expeditions and was in charge of the one sent from Lick Observatory to Sumatra in 1901.

In 1900, diplomat Michael Dowling was sent to the Philippines for a survey of the schools there.

Through the 1890s, Potter sent illustrated story letters to the children of her former governess, Annie Moore, and, in 1900, Moore, realizing the commercial potential of Potter's stories, suggested they be made into books.

In 1900 General Sir Henry Brackenbury, the then Director-General of Ordnance, sent officers to visit European gun makers.

Specimens from the beds were sent to the Smithsonian Institution and other museums worldwide, and by 1900 more than 100 articles and books had been published about the John Day Fossil Beds.

Samori ’ s would-be Muslim empire was undone by the French, who took Sikasso in 1898, and sent Samori into exile, where he died in 1900.

He studied in the Jaora School till March, 1900, when he was sent to Lahore.

Naval personnel from New South Wales and Victoria took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, while HMCS Protector was sent by South Australia but saw no action.

The Boxer Rebellion in China began in 1900, and a number of western nations — including many European powers, the United States, and Japan — soon sent forces as part of the China Field Force to protect their interests.

1899 saw the 2nd Battalion sent to the Second Boer War 1899-1902 in South Africa and after a number of engagements two members of the Battalion were awarded the Victoria Cross: Captain ( later Colonel ) Mansel-Jones in February 1900, and Sergeant Traynor in February 1901.