* 1900 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand ( d. 1994 )

* Crosby, Alfred W., Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900 – 1900 ( New York, 1986 ).

By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand ; in 1965 residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a New York newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources, such as the 1900 census.

Little Italy, Manhattan | Little Italy in New York, ca. 1900.

* 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground " Rapid Transit Railroad " that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

In 1900, in response to renewed requests, the island became a British protectorate, and the following year it was annexed by New Zealand.

* In the Coptic Orthodox Church, the New Year, called Neyrouz, coincides with 11 September in the Gregorian calendar between 1900 and 2099, with the exception of the year before Gregorian leap years, when Neyrouz occurs on 12 September.

Connecticut is known for its apizza ( particularly the white clam pie ), shad and shadbakes, grinders ( including the state-based Subway chain ), and New Haven's claim as the birthplace of the hamburger sandwich at Louis ' Lunch in 1900.

* Andrew Lang, The Poltergeist and his explainers, The Making of Religion, ( Appendix B ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 324 – 339.

* 1900: New Orleans, Louisiana: Robert Charles Riots

* 1900: New York City, New York

While UMTS2100 is the most widely deployed UMTS band, some countries ' UMTS operators use the 850 MHz and / or 1900 MHz bands ( independently, meaning uplink and downlink are within the same band ), notably in the US by AT & T Mobility, New Zealand by Telecom New Zealand on the XT Mobile Network and in Australia by Telstra on the Next G network.

Jug bands, first known as " spasm bands ", were popular especially among African-Americans around 1900 in New Orleans and reached a height of popularity between 1925 and 1935 in Memphis and Louisville.

The term was extensively used to describe certain major New York City newspapers about 1900 as they battled for circulation.

* Andrew Lang, Fetishism and Spiritualism, The Making of Religion, ( Chapter VIII ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 147 – 159.

The Times is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, including The Times of India ( 1838 ), The Straits Times ( 1845 ), The New York Times ( 1851 ), The Irish Times ( 1859 ), the Los Angeles Times ( 1881 ), The Seattle Times ( 1891 ), The Daily Times ( Malawi ) ( 1900 ), The Canberra Times ( 1926 ), The Times ( Malta ) ( 1935 ) and The Times of Israel ( Israel ) ( 2012 ).

* Lang, Andrew ( 1900 ) Demoniacal Possession, The Making of Religion, ( Chapter VII ), Longmans, Green, and C °, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 128 – 146.

The world expositions of 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, Philadelphia ( 1876 ), 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis and 1915 San Francisco were landmarks in this respect.

Lower East Side, Manhattan | Lower East Side, New York City, United States, circa 1900.

Vincent Richard Impellitteri ( February 4, 1900 – January 29, 1987 ) was an American politician, who served as the 101st Mayor of New York City.

* Andrew Lang, Psychanalyse-paris. com, " Science and ' Miracles '", The Making of Religion Chapter II, Longmans, Green, and Co., London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 14 – 38.

This was followed in 1900 by New York city, who extolled its virtues of greater speed, more safety for the patient, faster stopping and a smoother ride.

In a September 1900 review, The New York Times praised the novel, writing that it would appeal to child readers and to younger children who could not read yet.

*, Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases, Norman W. Henley and Co., New York, 1900, second edition ( extensive description of Dewar's work on the liqufaction of gases )

* L. P. Powell ( editor ), in Historic Towns of the Southern States, ( New York, 1900 )

The European and U. S. press agencies exposed the conditions in the Congo Free State to the public in 1900.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20, 000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

He stated in his autobiography that from 1900 onward he considered a World State inevitable.

* 1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.

* Montgomery, William G. ( 1993 ) Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865 – 1900, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5

The President made it a top priority to reorganize the State Department, saying, " It is organized on the basis of the needs of the government in 1800 instead of 1900.

* October 31 – Edward Stettinius, Jr., U. S. Secretary of State ( b. 1900 )

In January 1900, Francis William Reitz, the State Secretary of the South African Republic, started issuing orders discouraging any sheep-herders from entering Swaziland.

The county seat was moved to Anniston after years of controversy and a State Supreme Court ruling in June 1900.

From 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Columbia University, from 1888 to 1906 director of the New York State Library, and from 1888 to 1900 secretary and executive officer of the University of the State of New York.

The occupation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1900 did not subdue the Boers, who waged a guerrilla campaign throughout 1901 until the end of the war in May 1902.

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 community of Lickskillet, also known as Esco was located about north of Manardville near what today is the intersection of Old State Route 33 and Fall Creek or Cox Road with TN 170.

He is the author, coauthor, or editor of a dozen books including: A New History of Kentucky ; Kentucky: Decades of Discord, 1865 – 1900 ; Kentucky: Portrait in Paradox, 1900 – 1950 ; William Goebel: The Politics of Wrath ; The Breckinridges of Kentucky ; Our Kentucky: A Study of the Bluegrass State ; and History Mysteries.

Agencies that hold records for marriages and divorces from 1900 to 1939 are the Colorado State Archives and Denver Public Library Genealogy Department.

* Phillips Lee Goldsborough ( August 6, 1865 – October 22, 1946 ), a member of the United States Republican Party, was a United States Senator representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935, 47th Governor of Maryland from 1912 to 1916 and Comptroller of the Maryland Treasury from 1898 to 1900

The Bank of Lismore opened its doors on September 1, 1900, and was incorporated as the State Bank of Lismore three months later.

It was bought by the State in 1889 and restored in 1900.

* John J. Dickerson ( 1900 – 1966 ), politician who served as Mayor of Palisades Park from 1939 – 1952, and was Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee.

From 1900 to 1935, much of what is now Tiadaghton State Forest was purchased by Pennsylvania from lumber companies that had no further use for the clear-cut land.

At the Ferry County Fairgrounds, located three miles ( 5 km ) east of town on State Route 20, is the Ferry County Carousel originally built between 1895 and 1900.