WHAT HAPPENED IN 1899.
Look what happened the 1899.

The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play. (8. May 1899)

The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street. (20. May 1899)

Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. (30. May 1899)

American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation began her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. (7. June 1899)

New Richmond Tornado: the eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200. (12. June 1899)

A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket. (27. June 1899)

NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. (17. July 1899)

The First Hague Convention is signed. (29. July 1899)

The Norwegian football club Viking FK was founded. (10. August 1899)

Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. (13. September 1899)

Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya. (13. September 1899)

American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo. (23. September 1899)

Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. (11. October 1899)

The Western League is renamed the American League. (11. October 1899)

The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. (2. November 1899)

Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. (2. December 1899)

Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York. (10. December 1899)