The first official ball used in volleyball is disputed ; some sources say that Spalding created the first official ball in 1896, while others claim it was created in 1900.

In 1900 the South was only 15% urban ; ;

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

Poems Of The Past And The Present and Time's Laughing Stocks, both published while Hardy was at work on The Dynasts, draw heavily on poems written before 1900.

For those affiliated with it, the A.L.A.M. pool was a haven from the infringement actions involving detail patents that beset the industry with mounting intensity after 1900.

In 1900, with the completion of his licentiate in theology, he was ordained as curate, and that year he witnessed the Oberammergau Passion Play.

Electric street lighting was introduced in 1900 and electric trams were transporting passengers in 1909.

It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

By 1900, he was a world-renowned artist.

Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on March 18, 1900.

In 1900, when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player.

However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.

* AT & T Mobility-In areas where AT & T Mobility previously had D-AMPS operating on 1900 MHz frequencies, no analog AMPS network existed, and the D-AMPS network on the 1900 MHz frequency was shut down in mid-2007.

By 1900 the advertising agency had become the focal point of creative planning, and advertising was firmly established as a profession.

Its population in 1900 was 1, 675.

He was appointed in July 1900, returning to Australia shortly before the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

In November 1900 he was appointed C. B.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish – American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some to a small by 1900, as the remainder of the land once allotted to appointed natives was declared surplus and sold to non-native settlers as well as railroad and other large corporations, and was also converted into federal parks and military compounds.

* 1900: Louis Vierne is appointed organist of Notre-Dame de Paris after a heavy competition ( with judges including Charles-Marie Widor ) against the 500 most talented organ players of the era.

He appointed Franciszek Borowiec, his close collaborator, as new vicar general for the Diocesan area under Polish occupation and Paul Hoppe ( 1900 – 1988 ), Königsberg in Prussia ( today's Kaliningrad ), as vicar general for the diocesan area under Soviet occupation.

He was one of four Muscatine residents to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy between 1855 and 1900, a remarkable feat for a town of such small size: George Van Horne was consul at Marseilles, France during the 1860s ; Samuel McNutt served at Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890 ; and Frank W. Mahin represented his country in Reichenberg, Austria in 1900.

In 1897, President William McKinley appointed George B. Jackson, an African American former buffalo soldier as customs collector at Presidio, a position that he held until his death in 1900.

He gradually rose in rank until he was appointed, in 1830, head of the office, with a salary of £ 1900, raised in 1836 to £ 2000.

Sir Neville Chamberlain was appointed Inspector-General in 1900.

The heyday of privatelectureship lasted approximately from 1900 until 1968, when hardly a university professor in a normal field was appointed who had not been a private lecturer.

Following the Conservative and Unionist landslide win in the election of 1895, Chamberlain was appointed a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, holding that post until 1900, when he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

The first Democratic whip was appointed around 1900.

There he became interested in the agitation of the Social Democratic Party, obtained in 1893 an editorial post on the socialist Bremer Volkszeitung and in 1900 was appointed a trade-union secretary and ultimately elected a member of the Bremen Bürgerschaft ( comitia of citizens ) as representative of the Social Democratic Party.

Promoted to the substantive rank of major-general on 9 October 1900 and appointed KCB, he was made Commander of Johannesburg district in November 1900 and Commander of Cape Colony in June 1901.

McGill was appointed postmaster of St. Paul ( 1900 ) while concurrently serving as senator.

Sweeney ( 1900 – 1986 ) was Director of the Guggenheim Museum between 1952 – 1960 and Director of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and had been appointed as a consultant to advise on issues concerning the display and storage of art.

Towne was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy, and served from December 5, 1900 to January 28, 1901, when the elected replacement took office.

In 1900, when his cousin Governor Miles B. McSweeney appointed him as a clerk for Judge Robert Aldrich of Aiken, he needed to be 21.

After his return to the United Kingdom he was made a privy councillor, was appointed Paymaster-General in the Salisbury government from 1895 to 1898, and then became Lord Chamberlain until 1900.

In early 1900 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Northcote, of the City and County of the City of Exeter, and appointed a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire ( GCIE ).