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This article is intended to provide an overview of notable events from the year 1899 in the United States. The Battle of Manila of the Filipino-American War , which was a major conflict in 1899 for the United States "The beautiful Indian maidens", promotional poster, c. 1899 W. H. Shipman House , Hilo, Hawaii , built in 1899
1898 – USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish–American War; 1898 – De Lôme Letter; 1898 – Treaty of Paris (1898) ends Spanish–American War; Philippine–American War begins; 1898 – Hawaii annexed; 1898 – Newlands Resolution; 1898 – American Anti-Imperialist League organized; 1899 – Teller Amendment
1899 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of ...
The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899.. In American popular culture, the decade would later be nostalgically referred to as the "gay nineties" ("gay" meaning carefree or cheerful).
December 1898 through February 1899 was the third-coldest meteorological winter in the contiguous U.S. (behind the coldest and second-coldest winters of 1978/79 and 1935/36, respectively). The average temperature was 27.95 °F (−2.25 °C), which was 4.47 °F (2.48 °C) colder than the 1895-2017 average of 32.42 °F (0.23 °C) and 1.34 °F (0. ...
At least 500 members of 35 different American Indian tribes attend the Indian Congress in Omaha, Nebraska, the largest gathering of its kind to date. [214] 1899: May 30: Pearl Hart and a companion rob a stagecoach traveling between Globe and Florence in the Arizona Territory. The pair is tracked down and arrested a few days later. [215] Jun 2
The Battle of Manila (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila; Spanish: Batalla de Manila), the first and largest battle of the Philippine–American War, was fought on February 4–5, 1899, between 19,000 American soldiers and 15,000 Filipino armed militiamen. Armed conflict broke out when American troops, under orders to turn away insurgents from their ...
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.