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| Gregorian calendar | 1899 MDCCCXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2652 |
| Armenian calendar | 1348 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6649 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 55–56 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1820–1821 |
| Bengali calendar | 1306 |
| Berber calendar | 2849 |
| British Regnal year | 62 Vict. 1 – 63 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2443 |
| Burmese calendar | 1261 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7407–7408 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4595 or 4535 — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4596 or 4536 |
| Coptic calendar | 1615–1616 |
| Discordian calendar | 3065 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1891–1892 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5659–5660 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1955–1956 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1820–1821 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4999–5000 |
| Holocene calendar | 11899 |
| Igbo calendar | 899–900 |
| Iranian calendar | 1277–1278 |
| Islamic calendar | 1316–1317 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 32 (明治３２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1828–1829 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4232 |
| Minguo calendar | 13 before ROC 民前13年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 431 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2441–2442 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Earth-Dog) 2025 or 1644 or 872 — to — ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 2026 or 1645 or 873 |
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1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- January 1 – Queens and Staten Island join with New York City.
- June 19 - The United Kingdom and Egypt begin ruling Sudan together.
Date unknown
- Thomson measures the charge and mass of an electron.
- The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane hits the Bahamas, Florida and North Carolina
Births
January
- January 17 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
February
- February 10 - Cevdet Sunay, 5th President of Turkey (d. 1982)
- February 17 – Priscilla Bonner, American film actress (d. 1996)
- February 23 – Erich Kästner, German children's writer (d. 1974)
March
- March 27 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
April
- April 22 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer (d. 1977)
- April 29 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and jazz musician (d. 1974)
May
- May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)
- May 24 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1976)
June
July
- July 1 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1987)
- July 7 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
- July 11 – E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
- July 17 – James Cagney, American actor (d. 1986)
- July 21 – Ernest Hemingway, American author (d. 1961)
- July 22 – Sobhuza II of Swaziland, King of Swaziland (d. 1982)
- July 23 – Gustav Heinemann, 3rd President of Germany (d. 1976)
August
- August 13 – Alfred Hitchcock, English movie director (d. 1980)
- August 28 – Chang Myon, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 1966)
- August 28 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
September
- September 3 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian physician and virologist (d. 1985)
- September 23 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor
- September 26 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
October
- October 4 – Franz Jonas, President of Austria (d. 1974)
November
- November 24 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (d. 1974)
- November 29 - Genevieve Tobin, American actress (d. 1995)
December
- December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
- December 19 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist preacher (d. 1984)
- December 25 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)