page_title: 1900
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1900 / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: English: Labour Party Plaque from Caroone House, 14 Farringdon Street, London EC4, (demolished 2004). The plaque has been reinstated on the wall of the redevelopment of the Caroone House site (5 Fleet Place).
context_page_description: 1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini 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. As of the start of 1900, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  As of March 1, when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28, 2100.
context_section_description: February 1 – Western Australia announced its refusal to join the Australian Federation unless it is given five more years of fiscal freedom.
  February 3
  Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30. Goebel, who had prevailed in a dispute over the winner of the election in November 1899, had been sworn in on his deathbed. The former Secretary of State of Kentucky Caleb Powers is later found guilty in the conspiracy to kill Goebel.
  Strikers in Aachen, Vienna, and Brussels demand an eight-hour working day and higher wages.
  February 5 – The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal, across Central America in Nicaragua.
  February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
  February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith.
  February 9 – Dwight F. Davis creates the Davis Cup tennis tournament.
  February 14 – Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
  February 15 – Second Boer War: The Siege of Kimberley is lifted.
  February 17 – Second Boer War – Battle of Paardeberg: British troops defeat the Boers.
  February 27
  The British Labour Party is officially established, at a meeting in the Congregational Memorial Hall in London, and Ramsay MacDonald is appointed as its first secretary.
  Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé.
  FC Bayern, Germany's most successful football club, is founded in Munich.
caption: Plaque recording the location of the formation of the British Labour Party in 1900.
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