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.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

* 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.

That resulted in the formulation of the so called Lorentz transformation by Joseph Larmor ( 1897, 1900 ) and Lorentz ( 1899, 1904 ), whereby it was noted by Larmor that the complete formulation of local time is accompanied by some sort of time dilation of moving electrons in the aether.

In 1900 and 1904 he interpreted Lorentz's local time as the result of clock synchronization by light signals.

The original campus-site at the corner of Presque Isle and Kaye Avenues was on land donated by local businessman and philanthropist John M. Longyear, whose namesake academic building, Longyear Hall, opened its doors to students in 1900.

Assisted by Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, who had already distinguished himself by his excavations on the island of Melos, and Mr. Fyfe, an architect from the British School at Athens, Evans employed a large staff of local labourers as excavators, and began work in 1900.

She was christened there on 23 September 1900, in the local parish church, All Saints, and her godparents included her paternal aunt Lady Maud Bowes-Lyon and cousin Mrs Arthur James.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

Prior to 1900, the area occupied by what would become the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

The local government arrangements were reorganised in 1900 with a Metropolitan Borough of Southwark created comprising the parishes of Southwark Christchurch, Southwark St Saviours, Southwark St George the Martyr and Newington.

A number of newer local anesthetic agents, many of them derivatives of cocaine, were synthesized in the 20th century, including eucaine ( 1900 ), amylocaine ( 1904 ), procaine ( 1905 ), and lidocaine ( 1943 ).

The local bee industry developed a product that received first place in the 1900 Paris World's Fair.

A local town fair, called the Brentford Festival, has been held in Brentford every September since 1900.

A reform of local government in 1900 abolished the Clerkenwell vestry and the parish became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury.

There was a reorganisation of local government in 1900 and the parish became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the vestry was abolished.

* Greenwich District ( Metropolis ), former local government district, 1855 — 1900

* Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich, former local government district, 1900 — 1965

In 1900, local investors founded the Opelika Cotton Mill as the first textile plant in the city, employing 125.

According to a display at the West Kern Oil Museum, local residents asked the Southern Pacific Railroad if the station could be named Moro when the rails arrived about 1900.

Then a group of local businessmen, including Valentine S. McClatchy ( the co-owner of the Sacramento Bee ), incorporated the Fair Oaks Development Company in 1900.

Several period buildings were donated to the museum from local residents and moved to the site, including the original one room schoolhouse that was used in Loreauville between 1900 and 1925.

Smiley Township was founded in 1900, but local resident Leon Lum convinced residents to rename it Nisswa, from the Ojibwe word " nessawae " ( which means " in the middle " or " three "), when the town was incorporated as a village in 1908.

In April, 1874, the local paper estimated the population of Marshall at 300, by 1900 the population was 2, 088.

In April 1900, a local committee was elected, and the Oregon Legislature approved an Act incorporating the city of John Day on February 23, 1901.

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

In 1900, American businessman Samuel Zemurray and United Fruit came to Honduras to purchase some banana plantations.

* Hub van Doorne ( 1900 – 1979 ), Dutch businessman

* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )

* 1900 – D. W. Brooks, American farmer and businessman, founded Gold Kist ( d. 1999 )

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

** Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman ( b. 1900 )

* Augustus Lowell ( 1830 – 1900 ), businessman, philanthropist, and father of Percival, Abbott Lawrence, and Amy Lowell

* Walter Tenney Carleton ( 1867 – 1900 ), businessman

Macclesfield was started between 1900 and 1901 when the Tarboro, North Carolina businessman, Henry Clark Bridgers founded the The Macclesfield Company.

Hanna had made millions as a businessman, and used his money and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaigns in 1896 and 1900.

Morgan began talks with Charles M. Schwab, president of Carnegie Co., and businessman Andrew Carnegie in 1900.

Morgan began conversations with Charles M. Schwab, president of Carnegie Co., and businessman Andrew Carnegie in 1900 with the intention of buying Carnegie's business and several other steel and iron businesses to consolidate them to create the United States Steel Corporation.

Marcus Daly ( December 5, 1841 – November 12, 1900 ) was an Irish-born American businessman known as one of the three " Copper Kings " of Butte, Montana, United States.

* Jonas Gilman Clark ( 1815 – 1900 ), American businessman and the founder of Clark University

The history of department stores in Lebanon dates back to 1900 when Orozdi-Back, a department store that was founded by a French businessman of Hungarian origin, opened a branch in Beirut.

* William McPherson Allen ( 1900 – 1985 ), American aircraft businessman

* William Marsh Rice ( 1816 – 1900 ), American businessman, founder of Rice University

* Chick Parsons ( Charles Thomas Parsons, Jr., 1900 – 1988 ), American businessman, diplomat, and decorated World War II veteran

* George Burritt Sennett ( 1840 – 1900 ), American ornithologist and businessman

Augustus Lowell ( January 15, 1830 – 1900 ) was a businessman and philanthropist from Massachusetts.

Joseph Forney Johnston ( March 23, 1843 – August 8, 1913 ) was an American Democratic politician and businessman who was the 30th Governor of Alabama from 1896 to 1900.

* James King ( Quebec politician ) ( 1848 – 1900 ), Canadian businessman and member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec