# 1900

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 |

**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, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and *Anno Domini* (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade.

Due to a leap day in the Julian Calendar, the Gregorian Calendar moved ahead by 13 days.

## 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

* 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)