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| 1899 |
| | | The Sudan begins half a century of supposedly joint rule by Britain and Egypt | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The War of a Thousand Days begins in Colombia, causing eventually 100,000 deaths | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a wireless telegraph message across the English Channel | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Mohammed ibn Abdullah (the Mad Mullah in British eyes) leads an uprising in British Somaliland | |
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| 1899 |
| | | US social scientist Thorstein Veblen publishes The Theory of the Leisure Class, an attack on capitalist exploitation and 'consumerism' | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup | |
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| 1899 |
| | | The Boer War breaks out, ostensibly over the rights of British settlers in the Transvaal | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Edward Elgar teases with the word 'enigma' printed at the head of his orchestral Variations on an Original Theme | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso | |
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