1899
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s - 1890s - 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years: 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 - 1899 - 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904
Events
- January 1 - End of Spanish rule in Cuba.
- January 1 - Queens and Staten Island merge with New York City
- January 3 - The first known use of the word "automobile", in an editorial in the New York Times
- February 2 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
- January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer
- January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (+ 1991)
- January 23 - Humphrey Bogart (actor)
- February 15 - Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
- April 22 - Vladimir Nabokov, (writer)
- April 29 - Duke Ellington
- July 11 - E. B. White, (writer)
- August 13 - Alfred Hitchcock, (film director)
- August 24 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer
- December 18 - Peter Wessel Zapffe
Deaths