In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

Following the example of New Jersey, which enacted corporate-friendly laws at the end of the 19th century to attract businesses from New York, Delaware played the game of fiscal competition by adopting in 1899 a general incorporation act aimed at attracting more businesses.

' Chamberlain successfully persuaded the Prime Minister, John Gordon Sprigg, to hold elections as soon as possible, a positive act considering the hostile nature of the Cape Parliament since 1899.

Only five years after the first publication of The Jungle Book, E. Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods ( 1899 ) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book.

In 1899 an act was passed that consolidated the two towns under the name Cottage Grove.

Byng was deployed in November 1899 to South Africa, where he was to act as a provost marshal, but was instead immediately given the local rank of lieutenant colonel and tasked with raising and commanding the South African Light Horse during the Second Boer War.

The rank of Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps was established by the Navy personnel act of March 3, 1899 ( 30 Stat.

In 1833, an act of legislation made the rank of sergeant major permanent for the Marine Corps and by 1899 five Marines held the rank of sergeant major.

Some sections of the 1899 act have been superseded by various amendments, including the 1972 CWA, while other notable legislative predecessors include:

* Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway, opened 1885 but reincorporated under the act in 1899

Dickson broke away from the company late 1895 in order to act as partner in his own concern, American Mutoscope and Biograph, which by 1899 had a founded a British subsidiary that Dickson headed.

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 resulted in the act that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory and was the culmination of years of civil war among Samoan factions and of rivalry between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom at the brink of war.

Some of these girls were asked to come to her house on Sundays and describe the conditions in which they worked, and there leading politicians such as Bernhard Ringrose Wise, William Holman, W. M. Hughes and Thomas Bavin met and discussed the drafting of the bill that eventually became the early closing act of 1899.

The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, and opened the doors on its current state-of-the-art building in 2000.

He moved in 1899 to The Standard as chief leader-writer and moved in 1900 to The Times, to act as co-editor with Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale University on preparation of the eleven volumes forming the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

And, 1899 act for prefectural agricultural experiment stations supported prefectural movement to establish agricultural experiment stations all over Japan.

Keeler is mentioned in the final chapters of Frank Norris ' novel, McTeague ( 1899 ).

Besides those mentioned above, other Herbert operettas with particularly strong scores are Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1899 ), The Singing Girl ( 1899 ), The Enchantress ( 1911 ), The Madcap Duchess ( 1913 ), and The Only Girl ( 1914 ).

Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary ( 1871 ; revised 1888 ), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers ( 1894 ); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.

Among his later writings must be mentioned the monographs on Søren Kierkegaard ( 1877 ), on Esaias Tegnér ( 1878 ), on Benjamin Disraeli ( 1878 ), Ferdinand Lassalle ( in German, 1877 ), Ludvig Holberg ( 1884 ), on Henrik Ibsen ( 1899 ) and on Anatole France ( 1905 ).

Thornton was incorporated into the city of Bradford in 1899, but was mentioned in the Domesday Book of the 11th century, when it had been laid waste by William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, punishment for an uprising against the Norman invaders of 1066.

Project archaeologists conducted excavations on the wreck of the 1899 Norwegian lumber ship Vale mentioned above, and also located a number of other submerged archaeological sites, including the ruins of the Dog Island Lighthouse, using sonar and magnetometer.

He was first mentioned in an 1899 article run in the school newspaper, Phoenix, entitled " Reflections of a Skeleton ".

Gallway was often mentioned in dispatches during this time, and was rewarded with the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ; 1896 ), appointment as Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ; 1899 ) and promotion to major ( 1897 ).

The game is mentioned by H. G. Wells in his book The Invisible Man in 1897, and by E. Nesbit in The Story of the Treasure Seekers in 1899.

He served in South Africa between 1899 and 1900 and was mentioned in despatches.

* The concept was mentioned in Wardon Allan Curtis's 1899 short story " The Monster of Lake LaMetrie.

Of Tábori's works, which were especially popular among the young in his day, may be mentioned: " A Szobor Titka ," 1885, a novel ; " Kulturképek ," 1889, short stories ; " Ildikó ," 1890, a drama ; " Párbaj ," 1890, a novel ; " Az Etet Folytatásokban ," 1890, a novel ; " Átalakulások ," 1893, a novel ; " Szabadsághősök ," 1894, a novel ; " Korhadt Oszlopok ," 1895, a novel ; " Oceania ," 1898, short stories ; and " Megfagyott Pezsgö ," 1899, a novel.

It is due to the low relief of the shoreline that Sylt had a total of 1899 hours of sunshine in 2005, 180 hours above the German average.

Population growth in London during the 19th century demanded new arrangements, and the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was created in 1899, with the boundaries described above.

In successive years from 1895 to 1899 she stayed in Cimiez in the hills above Nice.

* Edward Harris, 4th Earl of Malmesbury ( 1842 – 1899 ), son of the above

* Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione ( 1837 – 1899 ), the former mistress of Napoleon III, lived in seclusion from the 1870s until the 1890s at 26, Place Vendôme, above Boucheron

As can be seen from the above list, from 1899 to the ascension of Ya Naa Abdulai III, period of 54 years, Andani Yili had been on the skins of Yani for only 10 years.

The first issue appeared in 1899 ; it consisted of the post office name ( as described above ) overprinted on the current " Type Sage " stamps, a total of 15 values ranging from one centime to five francs.

An 1899 reproduction of the Lincoln Imp also overlooked the Front Quad of Lincoln College, Oxford until 2000 when it was transferred to the bar ( Deep Hall ) and another Imp was erected in the traditional position above the entrance to Hall.

Its core is the extensive Kurortny ( Glavny ) Park ( planted mostly with ash, oak, hornbeam, chestnut, maple, poplar, linden, etc., decorative bushes, flowers ), laid in 1849, with springs of mineral water and numerous constructions: the building of the drinking gallery ( 1847 – 1856, architect S. Upton, Moresque style ), the Nikolayevskiye ( the present Verkhniye ) baths ( 1899, architects N. V. Dmitriyev and B. V. Pravzdik ), the Commercial gallery ( 1912, architect Y. F. Shreter, neo-classicism ; the present Electroheliotherapy Institute ), the wooden observation pavilion with colonnade referred to as Oreanda ( 1912 ), four pavilions above drinking well-rooms ( 1912 – 1913, architect N. N. Semyonov, neo-classicism ), etc.

The company traces its origins to 1899 when Herman Bergdorf, an immigrant from Alsace, France, opened a tailor shop just above Union Square in downtown Manhattan.

Commencing with the death of Lucian Sharpe in 1899, the name of Henry D. Sharpe was for more than 50 years closely interwoven with the destiny of the company.

Actinium ( ) is a radioactive chemical element with symbol Ac and atomic number 89, which was discovered in 1899.

In Bulgaria, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union ( BZNS ) was organized in 1899 to resist taxes and build cooperatives.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

In 1899 he was made Cardinal Bishop of Albano.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

The slight differences were that the red hoops were slightly thicker than the white ( the opposite was true in 1896 ), and the white flash on the socks introduced in 1899 was partially retained.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

After eight years with the Spiders, Young was moved to St. Louis in 1899.

The first was when 3 Scottish firms formed the United Turkey Red Co. Ltd in 1897, and the second, in 1899, was the much larger Calico Printers ' Association.