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Events from the year 1900 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

[edit] Events

• 3 January - The Royal Yacht, Victoria and Albert capsizes as it leaves port.^[1]
• 9 January - Influenza outbreak in London.
• 24 January - Second Boer War: Boers repel British troops under General Sir Redvers Buller at the Battle of Spion Kop.^[2]
• 5 February - The UK and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal through Nicaragua.
• 6 February - The House of Commons vote of censure over the government's handling of the Second Boer War is defeated by a majority of 213.
• 7 February - The Labour Party is formed.
• 8 February - British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
• 14 February - Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.

Plaque recording the location of the formation of the Labour Party

• 27 February
  • Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.
  • Ramsay MacDonald appointed secretary of newly formed Labour Party.^[3]
• 28 February - Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith was lifted.^[3]
• March–September - War of the Golden Stool fought against the Ashanti Empire.
• 1 April - Irish Guards formed by Queen Victoria.
• 4 April - Anarchist shoots at the Prince of Wales during his visit to Belgium in the birthday celebrations of the King of Belgium.
• 24 April - The Daily Express newspaper published for the first time.^[3]
• 14 May–28 October - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and win 15 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze medals.
• 17 May - Second Boer War: Siege of Mafeking ends.^[3]
• 18 May - The UK proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• 22 May - Mines Act, 1900 prohibits children under the age of thirteen from working in mines.^[2]
• 5 June - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa.
• 30 July - The Duke of Albany becomes Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Carl Eduard following the death of his uncle, Duke Alfred.
• 8 August - Great Britain loses to the United States in the first Davis Cup tennis competition.^[3]
• 14 August - An international contingent of troops, under British command, invades Peking and frees the Europeans taken hostage.
• 27 August - British defeat Boer commandos at Bergendal.
• 25 October - Second Boer War: United Kingdom annexes Transvaal.^[3]
• 3 December - The Conservative Party under Lord Salisbury wins the 'Khaki' general election.
• 31 December - A storm causes a stone and a lintel to fall at Stonehenge; they are restored in 1958.^[3]

[edit] Publications

• Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim.
• H. G. Wells' novel Love and Mr Lewisham.

[edit] Births

• 31 March - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (died 1974)
• 6 June - Arthur Askey, comedian (died 1982)
• 4 August - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, consort of King George VI (died 2002)
• 9 September - James Hilton, novelist (died 1954)
• 1 October - Tom Goddard, English cricketer (died 1966)
• 6 October - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (died 1961)
• 9 October - Alastair Sim, actor (died 1976)

[edit] Deaths

• 20 January - John Ruskin, writer and social critic (born 1819)
• 22 January - David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (born 1831)
• 31 January - John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, nobleman and boxer (born 1844)
• 24 April - George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, politician (born 1823)
• 30 July - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Queen Victoria (born 1844)
• 22 November - Arthur Sullivan, composer (born 1842)
• 30 November - Oscar Wilde, playwright, writer and poet (born 1854)

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