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1900
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife exhibit together at the Sezession show in Vienna        
1900
 
    
Enrique Granados completes the ten piano pieces forming his Danzas españolas       
1900
 
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Keir Hardie is returned to parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, beginning a long and close link between the Labour party and Wales.       
1900
 
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The relief of Mafeking ends a long siege which brings fame to the British commander of the garrison, Robert Baden-Powell       
Baden-Powell at Mafeking, 1900
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c. 1900
 
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Rubber brings prosperity to Manaus, thousands of miles up the Amazon      
1900
 
   
After a prodigiously productive career as novelist and journalist, Stephen Crane dies of tuberculosis at the age of 28      
1900
 
   
Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising      
1900
 
    
Harvey Firestone sets up the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio       
1900
 
    
Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation       
1900
 
    
The Bayer company in Germany sells aspirin in the form of water-soluble tablets, the first medication of its kind