1899: Calendar year
1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade.
As of the start of 1899, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s – 1890s – 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1896 1897 1898 – 1899 – 1900 1901 1902 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1899 MDCCCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2652 |
| Armenian calendar | 1348 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6649 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 55–56 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1820–1821 |
| Bengali calendar | 1306 |
| Berber calendar | 2849 |
| British Regnal year | 62 Vict. 1 – 63 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2443 |
| Burmese calendar | 1261 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7407–7408 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4595 or 4535 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4596 or 4536 |
| Coptic calendar | 1615–1616 |
| Discordian calendar | 3065 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1891–1892 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5659–5660 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1955–1956 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1820–1821 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4999–5000 |
| Holocene calendar | 11899 |
| Igbo calendar | 899–900 |
| Iranian calendar | 1277–1278 |
| Islamic calendar | 1316–1317 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 32 (明治３２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1828–1829 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4232 |
| Minguo calendar | 13 before ROC 民前13年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 431 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2441–2442 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 2025 or 1644 or 872 — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 2026 or 1645 or 873 |
Events
- January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
- June 19 - The United Kingdom and Egypt begin ruling Sudan together.
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- Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
- The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina
Births
January
- January 17 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
February
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- February 10 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)
- February 17 – Priscilla Bonner, American film actress (d. 1996)
- February 23 – Erich Kästner, German children's writer (d. 1974)
March
- March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
April
- April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- April 29 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
May
- May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
- May 24 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)
June
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- July 1 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1987)
- July 7 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
- July 11 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
- July 17 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
- July 21 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (d. 1961)
- July 22 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland, King of Swaziland (d. 1982)
- July 23 – Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of Germany (d. 1976)
August
- August 13 – Alfred Hitchcock, English movie director (d. 1980)
- August 28 – Chang Myon, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 1966)
- August 28 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
September
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- September 3 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian physician and virologist (d. 1985)
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor
- September 26 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
October
- October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974)
November
- November 24 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (d. 1974)
- November 29 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (d. 1995)
December
- December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
- December 19 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist preacher (d. 1984)
- December 25 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
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