1 January 1900Colesberg OperationsJohn Denton Pinkstone French
French presses Boer positions around Colesberg with mobile cavalry tactics intended to threaten their flanks.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1900, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
French presses Boer positions around Colesberg with mobile cavalry tactics intended to threaten their flanks.
Arrives to replace Buller as senior British commander.
Serves as Roberts's chief of staff.
Lyttelton sends reinforcements across the Tugela as British troops struggle to hold Spion Kop.
Thorneycroft assumes command on the summit and refuses a Boer demand for surrender during the crisis at Spion Kop.
Commands the failed British attack at Spion Kop.
Woodgate commands the troops occupying Spion Kop and is mortally wounded during the battle.
Captures Spion Kop
Helps reorganise transport, supply and staff arrangements for Roberts's renewed British offensive.
Buller begins another attempt to cross the Tugela and outflank Boer positions at Vaal Krantz.
French forces a crossing at Klip Drift during the sweeping cavalry advance toward Kimberley.
Leads the cavalry relief of Kimberley.
French leads the cavalry relief before his Ypres title.
Kekewich receives the relieving cavalry after his garrison has held Kimberley through a four-month siege.
Rhodes remains in Kimberley until French's cavalry breaks the Boer siege and enters the town.
Fights at the Battle of Tugela
Fights at the Battle of Tugela
Takes part in operations leading to the relief of Kimberley.
Kelly-Kenny's division closes on Cronje's laager at Paardeberg and helps establish the British encirclement.
Directs costly assaults before Roberts resumes command.
MacDonald leads the Highland Brigade during the operations that surround Cronje's force at Paardeberg.
Cronje's force surrenders at Paardeberg after British encirclement.
Cronje's force surrenders at Paardeberg after British encirclement.
Receives Cronje's surrender after encirclement.
The Labour Represention Committee is founded at a Conference in London
Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.
Breaks through to relieve Ladysmith.
Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.
Helps tighten the British encirclement of Piet Cronje's force during the Paardeberg operations.
Coordinates staff work during Roberts's advance from the Modder River into the Orange Free State.
Kelly-Kenny commands infantry during Roberts's advance against Boer positions at Poplar Grove.
Kelly-Kenny's infantry fights through Boer resistance at Driefontein on the march toward Bloemfontein.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
Occupies the Orange Free State capital.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
The British launch an offensive against the Boer capital
Helps secure the charter creating the University of Birmingham.
Broadwood's mounted force is caught in De Wet's ambush at Sanna's Post and suffers heavy losses.
Supports Roberts's advance and occupation of Bloemfontein as British momentum improves.
Dalgety organizes the defence of Wepener and holds the position against repeated Boer attacks.
Brabant's colonial troops take part in operations that relieve the besieged garrison at Wepener.
Rundle advances toward Wepener and helps force De Wet to abandon the siege.
Hore is captured during Eloff's penetration of Mafeking before the attacking Boer force is itself surrounded.
Baden-Powell's garrison contains Eloff's assault and forces the isolated Boer raiders to surrender.
Roberts reaches Kroonstad
Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.
Baden-Powell's garrison is relieved after holding Mafeking throughout the longest siege of the war.
Leads the column relieving Mafeking.
Helps raise the siege of Mafeking.
Mafeking is besieged until British relief arrives in May 1900.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
Hamilton leads British forces in the action at Doornkop during Roberts's advance toward Johannesburg.
Johannesburg falls to the British
British troops occupy Johannesburg.
British troops occupy the Rand
British troops occupy Johannesburg
British troops enter Pretoria during Roberts's advance.
Coordinates staff and logistical arrangements during the British advance toward Pretoria.
Occupies the Transvaal capital after Boer forces withdraw.
British troops enter Pretoria during Roberts's advance.
Enters Pretoria with British forces during the main advance.
British troops enter the Transvaal capital.
British troops enter Pretoria during Roberts's advance.
Winner of the Olympic singles tennis Gold Medal
Attempts to reach the besieged legations by railway.
Lands sailors and marines to protect foreign legations.
Leads an international relief column toward Beijing.
Leads the first relief expedition toward Beijing.
Hamilton commands part of the British force attacking Boer positions east of Pretoria at Diamond Hill.
Boxers attack the Allied naval force south of Peking
His customs residence is destroyed during the crisis.
Supports allied operations against the Taku Forts.
Helps capture the Taku Forts at the Peiho mouth.
Takes part in allied naval operations at Taku.
Distinguishes himself during the Taku Forts operation.
Takes part in the capture of the Taku Forts.
Commands British marines during the siege.
Becomes senior diplomatic organiser inside the legations.
Retreats after failing to relieve Beijing.
British troops enter Pretoria during Roberts's advance.
Organises British participation in legation defence.
His relief expedition is blocked before reaching Beijing.
Elected Member of Parliament for Oldham
Churchill claims "a seat lost to the Government is a seat gained to the Boers"
Assents to the Australia Federation Bill, creates the Commonwealth of Australia
Assents to the Australia Federation Bill, creates the Commonwealth of Australia
Assents to the Australia Federation Bill, creates the Commonwealth of Australia
Commands British troops during operations around Tianjin.
Mafeking is besieged until British relief arrives in May 1900.
Appointed Prospective Member of Parliament for Oldham
Hunter receives the mass surrender of Boer forces trapped in the Brandwater Basin.
Birth of the "Queen Mother"
Leads British troops in the final relief expedition.
Hore commands the isolated colonial garrison when De la Rey begins the siege of Elands River.
Carrington advances from the west to relieve Elands River but Boer resistance forces his column to turn back.
British troops are among the first to reach the legations.
Allied forces enter Beijing and relieve the legations.
Roberts and Buller join forces at Vlakfontein
Roberts and Buller join forces at Vlakfontein
Kitchener arrives with a large relief column after the Elands River garrison has resisted nearly two weeks of siege.
Buller attacks the Boer position at Bergendal during the British advance through the eastern Transvaal.
Proclaims the annexation of the Transvaal.
Roberts formally proclaims the annexation of the Transvaal
Captures the Boer Republic
Annexation of the Transvaal is announced
Backs British participation in the allied intervention.
Birth of Alastair Sim
Appointed Lieutenant Colonel
During the "Khaki election" the new Labour Party has only £33 expenses and wins just 62,698 votes
During the "Khaki election" the new Labour Party has only £33 expenses and wins just 62,698 votes
British forces join operations after the relief of Beijing.
Paget launches repeated attacks on the Boer position at Rhenosterkop but fails to break the defence.
Succeeds Roberts as commander in chief in South Africa.
Succeeds Roberts as commander in chief in South Africa.
Directs the later counter-guerrilla phase of the war.
Death of Oscar Wilde
Informs his constituency he will not contest the next election. Churchill has decided to join the Liberal Party
Informs his constituency he will not contest the next election
Supports the prospective Liberal Party candidate at the Ludlow by-election
Supports the prospective Liberal Party candidate at the Ludlow by-election
Dines with Lloyd George to sound him out about joining the Liberal Party
Adapts British operations after Boer commandos shift from conventional battle to dispersed guerrilla warfare.
Takes part in raising the siege of Dundee
At the Battle of Spion Kop
Youngest daughter of the 14th Earl of Strathmore & Kinghorne
Cadbury establishes a trust to manage and extend the Bournville model community.
British forces occupy the Orange Free State and rename it the Orange River Colony.
Appointed Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Appointed Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Uses concentration camps to restrict Boer commando support.
Uses concentration camps to restrict Boer commando support.
Formulates a law relating to black body radiation
The National Antarctic Expedition accept Shackleton
15 candidatures are sponsored, 2 are successful, Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby
15 candidatures are sponsored, 2 are successful, Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby
Works as a miner and shapes Bevan's working-class background.
Raises Bevan in a large Tredegar mining family.
Aston Villa retains the championship under Ramsay during the 1899/1900 season.
Appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Appointed First Secretary of the Labour Party, 1st term
Appointed Foreign Secretary
Appointed Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia
129 Trades Unions delegates pass Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament"
Helps create an association called the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) to coordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and represent the working-class population
Attends the 1900 conference that formes the Labour Representation Committee which became the Labour Party
129 Trades Unions delegates pass Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament"
Helps create the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs, MPs sponsored by trade unions and representing the working-class population
Helps create the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs, MPs sponsored by trade unions and representing the working-class population
The Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald is elected as Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Villa retains the Football League championship for the first time in club history.
Appointed Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse
Appointed Lieuetenant in the South African Light Horse
Publication of "Lord Jim"
Publication of "Love and Mr Lewisham"
Appointed Major General
Elected Member of Parliament for Oldham, joint Member of Parliament for Oldham with Winston Churchill
First elected Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Winston Churchills cousin
Elected Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil
The National Antarctic Expedition accept Shackleton
Created Viscount Goschen
Strengthens protection and use of railways as the British campaign moves into the Transvaal.
Appointed President of the Royal Society
Appointed Senior Staff Officer to Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10th Division
Appointed Senior Staff Officer to Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10th Division
Commands the land force which relieves Peking
Appointed Solicitor General
Publication of "The Great Boer War"
Publication of "The Visits of Elizabeth"
The number of Treaty ports in China is increased to 50
Visits Dublin for the 1st time in 40 years. Lifts the ban on wearing green & supports St Patricks Day parades
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