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| Gregorian calendar | 1900 MCM |
| Ab urbe condita | 2653 |
| Armenian calendar | 1349 ԹՎ ՌՅԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6650 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 56–57 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1821–1822 |
| Bengali calendar | 1307 |
| Berber calendar | 2850 |
| British Regnal year | 63 Vict. 1 – 64 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2444 |
| Burmese calendar | 1262 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7408–7409 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4596 or 4536 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4597 or 4537 |
| Coptic calendar | 1616–1617 |
| Discordian calendar | 3066 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1892–1893 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5660–5661 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1956–1957 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1821–1822 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5000–5001 |
| Holocene calendar | 11900 |
| Igbo calendar | 900–901 |
| Iranian calendar | 1278–1279 |
| Islamic calendar | 1317–1318 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 33 (明治３３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1829–1830 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 or 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4233 |
| Minguo calendar | 12 before ROC 民前12年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 432 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2442–2443 |
| Tibetan calendar | ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 2026 or 1645 or 873 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 2027 or 1646 or 874 |
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1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. It was last year of the 19th century.
The Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar as of the start of the year. The Julian calendar observed a leap day this year; this made the Gregorian calendar 13 days ahead. The year 1900 was also the year of the rat on the Chinese calendar.
Art, music, theatre, literature
- May 17 – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum is published.
Events
- February 9 – The Boers defeat the British at Ladysmith, South Africa.
- The Olympic Games took place in Paris.
Births
January
- January 1 – Mieczysław Batsch, Polish footballer (d. 1977)
- January 1 – Paola Borboni, Italian actress (d. 1995)
February
- February 22 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director (d. 1983)
March
- March 10 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017)
- March 29 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
April
- April 5 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
- April 26 – Charles Richter, American geophysicist and inventor (d. 1985)
May
June
- June 17 – Martin Bormann, Nazi-German politician (d. 1945)
July
August
- August 4 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- August 4 – Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian, last surviving person born in the 19th century (d. 2018)
September
- September 3 – Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (d. 1986)
October
- October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945)
- October 17 – Jean Arthur, American actress (d. 1991)
- October 20 – Ismail al-Azhari, President of Sudan (d. 1969)
- October 21 – Srinagarindra, Queen Mother of Thailand (d. 1995)
- October 26 – Ibrahim Abboud, President of Sudan (d. 1983)
November
- November 14 – Aaron Copland, American composer (d. 1990)
December
- December 6 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
Deaths
- June 5 – Stephen Crane, American writer (b. 1871)
- August 25 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and writer (b. 1844)
- November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan. English composer (b. 1842)
- November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)