1899

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1898 1899 1900

Events

Rudyard Kipling publishes the Eurocentric and imperialist poem "The White Man's Burden".
Border dispute between Venezuela and Britain over British Guiana settled.
Portuguese establish the Sociedad Agricola Patria e Trabalho to introduce coffee growing in the northwest of their colony of East Timor. Forced labor is used to operate the plantations.

Timeline

February 22-March 5: U.S. military forces occupy San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
February-May 15: U.S. and British military forces occupy Samoa.
March 15: U.S. military forces are withdrawn from Beijing, China.
July 21: Ernest Hemingway is born.
August 17: Viacheslav Konstantinovich Plevhe is appointed Minister-State Secretary for the Grand Duchy of Finland.
September 13: Future Romanian fascist Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a.k.a. Corneliu Zelinski is born in Huşi, Romania.
September 23: Walter Lippmann is born in New York City.
December: Viacheslav Konstantinovich Plevhe is appointed Chancellor of Helsingfors University. Forces university to repress student political activity.

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