Mar 16 Discovery of the ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete

Mar 07 Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, President Kruger flees

Mar 03 US Steel Corporation organizes

Mar 13 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state

Mar 07 Poplar Grove, South Africa Canadians engage Boers in artillery fight at Poplar Grove

Mar 12 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein

Mar 16 Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus

Mar 13 James William Tyrrell 1863-1945 starts 2,782 km survey trek from Great Slave Lake to Chesterfield Inlet.

Mar 16 Samuel Benfield Steele 1849-1919 commanding Lord Strathcona's Horse, embarks troops for South Africa; the regiment consists of 537 mounted troops recruited in Manitoba, BC and the NWT

Mar 05 American Hall of Fame is founded

Mar 31 The first car advertisement to run in a national magazine appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Mar 30 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law

Mar 14 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics

Mar 31 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands

Mar 25 US Socialist Party is formed at Indianapolis

Mar 14 US currency goes on gold standard

Mar 10 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

Aug 21 Allied forces overun Peking's inner city

Aug 25 Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies in Weimar, Germany.

Aug 08 NSW and Victorian Contingent departs Sydney for the Boxer Rebellion in China

Aug 14 Intl forces including US Marines enter Beijing to put down Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at ridding China of foreigners

Aug 15 Regular service is commenced over the 3'0" gauge White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon.

Aug 23 National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)

Aug 04 The birth of Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother

Aug 30 Outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow, UK

Sep 08 6,000 killed when a hurricane &tidal wave destroys Galveston, Texas, most deadly in US history

Sep 17 A federation of six colonies becomes the Commonwealth of Australia

Sep 08 A huricane strikes Galveston, TX, killing 6,000 people.

Sep 03 British annex Natal (South Africa)

Sep 05 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad

Feb 04 The birth of Jacques Prevert, French poet.

Feb 22 Hawaii became a US territory

Feb 06 Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)

Feb 27 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa

Feb 07 Labour Party forms in England

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