Where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

A natural-born subject owes allegiance wherever they may be, so that where territory is occupied in the course of hostilities by an enemy's force, even if the annexation of the occupied country is proclaimed by the enemy, there can be no change of allegiance during the progress of hostilities on the part of a citizen of the occupied country ( R v Vermaak ( 1900 ) 21 NLR 204 ( South Africa )).

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

* Bloody Sunday ( 1900 ), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War, South Africa

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

* 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje at the Battle of Paardeberg.

In 1900, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating, " Negroes in the South are reported as being addicted to a new form of vice – that of ' cocaine sniffing ' or the ' coke habit.

In 1896, they returned to Massachusetts and Keller entered The Cambridge School for Young Ladies before gaining admittance, in 1900, to Radcliffe College, where she lived in Briggs Hall, South House.

* 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.

* 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

* Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland's play Po ' White Trash, published in 1900, exposes complicated cultural tensions in the post-Reconstruction South, at the heart of which is the racial status of poor whites.

Depiction of a fetish in South Africa by the London Missionary Society, circa 1900.

The South Island contained most of the Pākehā population until around 1900 when the North Island again took the lead and has supported an ever greater majority of the country's total population through the 20th century and into the 21st.

This allowed the Roberts to declare the war over, having won the principal cities and so, on 3 September 1900, the South African Republic was formally annexed.

The capture of 400 POWs in February 1900 was a key event, which made the British realise they could not accommodate all POWs in South Africa.

In 1970, blacks still constituted some 30 percent of South Carolina's population ; in 1900, during the period of disfranchisement, they constituted 58. 4 percent of the state's population.

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

* Patrick Clunie, Sgt., RCR, The South African War, 6 Sep 1900

A record Farthest South latitude of 82 ° 17 ′ was reached, beating the previous record established in 1900 by Carsten Borchgrevink.

Good omens were quick to arrive though and before the 19th century was out the South Coast was given a taste of things to come as they reached the first of their four FA Cup Finals in 1900.

Evidence of cultivation is continually found throughout later civilizations in South Asia, including the Harappan period 2600 to 1900 BCE.

British fortunes changed after January 1900 with the appointment of Lord Roberts to command British forces in South Africa.

* SAVA Journal SJ: 4 / 95: The History of Flags of South Africa before 1900

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 Spalding was appointed by President McKinley as the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games.

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.