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See also:	History of the United States (1865–1918) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900-1930) List of years in the United States

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Events from the year1900 in the United States.

• President:William McKinley (R-Ohio)
• Vice President:vacant
• Chief Justice:Melville Fuller (Illinois)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:David B. Henderson (R-Iowa)
• Congress:56th

• January 1 –Hawaii asks for a delegate at the U.S.Republican National Convention.
• January 2
  • John Hay announces theOpen Door Policy to promote trade withChina.
  • The firstelectric bus becomes operational inNew York City.
• January 3
  • TheUnited States Census estimates the country's population was 76 million.
  • Giuseppe Verdi's operaAida makes its U.S. debut.^[1]
• January 5 – Dr.Henry A. Rowland ofJohns Hopkins University discovers the cause of theEarth'smagnetism.
• January 8 –President of the United StatesWilliam McKinley placesAlaska under military rule.
• January 14 – TheUnited States Senate accepts theAnglo-German treaty of 1899, in which theUnited Kingdom renounces its claims to theSamoan islands.
• January 17
  • Brigham H. Roberts is refused a seat in theUnited States House of Representatives because of hispolygamy.
  • Yaqui Indians inTexas proclaim independence fromMexico.
• January 29 – TheAmerican League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
• February 3 – Kentucky GovernorWilliam Goebel dies of wounds after being shot by assassins on January 30. Goebel, who had prevailed in a dispute over the winner of the 1899 election, had been sworn in on his deathbed.
• February 5 –Britain and the United States sign a treaty for the building of aCentral American shipping canal throughNicaragua.
• February 7
  • San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 begins.
  • After a 13-day special session, the California legislature votes forThomas R. Bard to fill the vacancy for its U.S. Senator vacant since March 1899.
• February 9 –Dwight F. Davis creates theDavis Cuptennis tournament.
• March 5 – Two U.S. cruisers are sent toCentral America to protect U.S. interests in a dispute betweenNicaragua andCosta Rica.
• March 6 – Acoal mine explosion inWest Virginia kills 50 miners.
• March 15 – TheGold Standard Act is ratified, placingUnited States currency on thegold standard.
• March 24 –New York City MayorRobert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that will linkManhattan andBrooklyn.

• April 30
  • Hawaiibecomes an official U.S.territory
  • Famous Train EngineerCasey Jones, dies in a wreck inVaughan, Mississippi, while saving all of the passengers on his train.
• May 1 –Scofield Mine disaster: An explosion of blasting powder incoal mine inScofield, Utah kills at least 200.
• May 23 – SergeantWilliam Harvey Carney is awarded theMedal of Honor for his actions in theSecond Battle of Fort Wagner (July 18, 1863). While he is the 21stAfrican American recipient of the medal, the action for which he is honored pre-dates all other African American recipients.
• June 7 –American temperance activistCarrie Nation enters a saloon inKiowa, Kansas, and destroys its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
• June 30 –Hoboken Docks Fire: Awharf fire at the docks inHoboken, New Jersey owned by theNorth German Lloyd Steamship line spreads to Germanpassenger shipsSaale,Main, andBremen. The fire engulfs the adjacent piers and nearby ships, killing 326 people.

• July 25 – TheRobert Charles Riots occur inNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
• September 8 – TheGalveston Hurricane makes landfall atGalveston, Texas, eventually killing 6,000–12,000 in thedeadliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
• September 13 –Philippine–American War: Filipino resistance fighters defeat a large American column in theBattle of Pulang Lupa.
• September 17 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos underJuan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham atMabitac.

• c. October 3 – TheWright brothers begin their first mannedglider experimental flights atKitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• November 2 –William J. Samford iselected the 31stgovernor of Alabama defeatingJohn Anthony Steele andGrattan B. Crowe.
• November 3 – The firstautomobileshow in the United States opens atNew York City'sMadison Square Garden.
• November 6 –U.S. presidential election, 1900:Republican incumbentWilliam McKinley is reelected by defeatingDemocratic challengerWilliam Jennings Bryan on a record turnout of 73.7%.
• December 1
  • William D. Jelks becomes an actinggovernor of Alabama whileWilliam J. Samford is ill.
  • William J. Samford is sworn in as the 31stgovernor of Alabama replacingJoseph F. Johnston
• December 26 –William D. Jelks ends as an actinggovernor of Alabama.

• Milton S. Hershey introduces themilk chocolateHershey bar.
• InNew Haven, Connecticut, Louis Lassen ofLouis' Lunch makes the first modern-dayhamburger sandwich.
• At theCarnegie Steel Company,Slavs andItalians produce one-third of the world's total steel supply.
• The Tramp and the Crap Game silent film is released.

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• Philippine–American War (1899–1902)

• January 2 –Zenas Bliss,Union Army general andMedal of Honor recipient (born1835)
• January 22 –David Edward Hughes, inventor of themicrophone and teleprinter (born1831)
• February 18 –Clinton L. Merriam, banker and politician (born1824)
• February 20 –Washakie, head chief of theEastern Snakes (born c.1798/1810)
• February 22 –Dan Rice, clown (born1823)
• March 19 –John Bingham, politician and lawyer (born1815)
• April 7 –Frederic Edwin Church, landscape painter (born1826)
• April 22 –Ruth Cox Adams, abolitionist (born1818)
• April 24 –Andrew Smith Hallidie, inventor and cable car pioneer (born1836)^[4]
• April 30 –Casey Jones, legendary train engineer (born1863)
• May 22 –Nathaniel P. Hill, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1879 to 1885 (born1832)
• June 11 –Maria Isabella Boyd, U.S. Civil War spy for the Confederacy (born1844)
• June 12 –Lucretia Peabody Hale, journalist and author (born1820)^[5]
• July 14 –John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (born1825)
• August 2 –John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (born1825)
• August 5 –Luke Pryor, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1880 (born1820)
• August 12 –James Edward Keeler, astronomer (born1857)
• August 13 –Collis P. Huntington, railroad promoter (born1821)
• August 16 –John James Ingalls, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (born1833)
• September 20 –John Alexander McClernand, lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil War (born1812)
• September 23 –William Marsh Rice, philanthropist and founder ofRice University (born1816)
• September 25 –John M. Palmer, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1891 to 1897 (born1817)
• September 29 –Samuel Fenton Cary, Congressman and prohibitionist (born1814)
• October 20 –Charles Dudley Warner, essayist and novelist (born1829)
• October 22 –John Sherman, 32ndUnited States Secretary of the Treasury, 35thUnited States Secretary of State (born1823)
• November 27 –Cushman Kellogg Davis, Governor of Minnesota from 1874 to 1876 and U.S. Senator from Minnesota from 1887 to 1900 (born1838)
• December 21 –Roger Wolcott, lawyer and politician, 39thGovernor of Massachusetts (born1847)
• December 31 –J.T. Wamelink, Dutch-born composer (born1827)

• List of American films of 1900
• Timeline of United States history (1900–1929)

• "Domestic Chronology",Statistician and Economist, San Francisco: Louis P. McCarty, 1905, pp. 227–347,hdl:2027/uc1.b3142275 – via HathiTrust. (Covers events May 1898-June 1905)

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