Biggest Events of the Year 1900

The Top Ten

1 Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

2 In China, the anti-foreigner Boxers occupy Beijing. International force ends both the siege and the Boxer Rebellion

3 US currency goes on gold standard

4 Benjamin Holt introduces first tractor

5 Fauvist movement in painting begins, led by Henri Matisse

6 German physicist Max Planck formulates an energy theory, postulating the existence of quanta, which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics

7 Floradora opens at Broadway's Casino Theatre. It introduces the Floradora sextet, a predecessor to the chorus line

8 Trial flight of Zeppelin airship

9 Hawaii becomes a terrority of the United States

10 Summer Olympics in Paris, France

The Contenders

11 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy

12 Exposition Universelle

This exhibition was attended by 48 million people, a statistic that is hard not to take seriously for this ranking.

13 Galveston Hurricane (1900)

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