1900

1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. It was last year of the 19th century.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1870s  1880s  1890s  – 1900s –  1910s  1920s  1930s
Years:	1897 1898 1899 – 1900 – 1901 1902 1903

1900 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1900 MCM
Ab urbe condita	2653
Armenian calendar	1349 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	6650
Bahá'í calendar	56–57
Balinese saka calendar	1821–1822
Bengali calendar	1307
Berber calendar	2850
British Regnal year	63 Vict. 1 – 64 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar	2444
Burmese calendar	1262
Byzantine calendar	7408–7409
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4596 or 4536     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4597 or 4537
Coptic calendar	1616–1617
Discordian calendar	3066
Ethiopian calendar	1892–1893
Hebrew calendar	5660–5661
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1956–1957
- Shaka Samvat	1821–1822
- Kali Yuga	5000–5001
Holocene calendar	11900
Igbo calendar	900–901
Iranian calendar	1278–1279
Islamic calendar	1317–1318
Japanese calendar	Meiji 33 (明治３３年)
Javanese calendar	1829–1830
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 or 13 days
Korean calendar	4233
Minguo calendar	12 before ROC 民前12年
Nanakshahi calendar	432
Thai solar calendar	2442–2443
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 2026 or 1645 or 873     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 2027 or 1646 or 874

The Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar as of the start of the year. The Julian calendar observed a leap day this year; this made the Gregorian calendar 13 days ahead. The year 1900 was also the year of the rat on the Chinese calendar.

Art, music, theatre, literature

• May 17 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.

Events

• February 9 – The Boers defeat the British at Ladysmith, South Africa.
• The Olympic Games took place in Paris.

Births

January

• January 1 – Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer (d. 1977)
• January 1 – Paola Borboni, Italian actress (d. 1995)

February

Luis Buñuel

• February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (d. 1983)

March

• March 10 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)
• March 29 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)

April

Spencer Tracy

Charles Francis Richter

• April 5 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
• April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)

May

Pridi Banomyong

• May 11 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 1983)

June

• June 17 – Martin Bormann, Nazi-German politician (d. 1945)

July

• July 19 – Arno Breker, German sculptor (d. 1991)

August

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

• August 4 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
• August 4 – Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian, last surviving person born in the 19th century (d. 2018)

September

Urho Kekkonen

• September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)

October

Heinrich Himmler

Jean Arthur

Ibrahim Abboud

• October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
• October 17 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
• October 20 – Ismail al-Azhari, President of Sudan (d. 1969)
• October 21 – Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (d. 1995)
• October 26 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)

November

Aaron Copland

• November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)

December

Agnes Moorehead

• December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)

Deaths

• June 5 – Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871)
• August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
• November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
• November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)