Editing 1899 (section)

=== September ===
* [[September 5]] &ndash; General [[Horacio Vasquez]], leader of a revolution against the [[Dominican Republic]]'s President Wenceslao Figuereo, arrives at the capital, Santo Domingo and forms a provisional government. 
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Dreyfus affair]]: In the retrial of his court-martial, Alfred Dreyfus is again found guilty of treason and sentenced to serve the remaining 10 years of his prison sentence on Devils Island, notwithstanding that the real culprit has previously admitted to his actions.<ref name=AROR999>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gfc-AQAAMAAJ ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews''] (October 1899) pp. 407-410</ref>
* [[September 11]] &ndash; [[Northern Arizona University]] is founded in [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]], as Northern Arizona Normal School. 
* [[September 13]]
** [[Halford Mackinder]], Cesar Ollier and Josef Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian,  the highest peak of [[Mount Kenya]].<ref>"A Journey to the Summit of Mount Kenya, British East Africa", by Halford John Mackinder, ''The Geographical Journal'' (May 1900) pp. 453–476</ref>
** The French Army invades the Sultanate of Zinder in [[Niger]] and kills the ruler, Amadou Kouran Daga.<ref>"Cazemajou, Marius Gabriel", in ''Historical Dictionary of Niger'', ed. by Abdourahmane Idrissa, et al. (Scarecrow Press, 2012) pp. 113-114</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; General [[Cipriano Castro]] defeats the Venezuelan Army at the battle of [[Tocuyito]] and prepares to march to Caracas to overthrow President [[Ignacio Andrade]].
* [[September 15]] &ndash; Preparing for an attack on Britain's [[Cape Colony]] from the neighboring [[South African Republic|Transvaal]] Republic, [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden-Powell]] arrives at the border town of [[Mafeking]] and begins recruiting volunteers and stockpiling munitions to prepare for [[Siege of Mafeking|an attack and siege]].<ref>Paul K. Davis, ''Besieged: 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) p. 272</ref>
* [[September 19]]
** [[Dreyfus affair]]: [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is pardoned in France by the Ministry of War.<ref name=AROR999/> He will be released from prison at [[Rennes]] the following day<ref name=AROR999/> but not fully exonerated until [[1906]].
** The patent for the first [[water meter]] is granted to [[Edwin Ford]].
* [[September 21]]
** A special session of the [[Orange Free State]]'s parliament meets at Bloemfontein to discuss war with the British Empire. At the same time, three British transports depart from Bombay with troops to the Cape Colony.<ref name=O99>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gfc-AQAAMAAJ ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews''] (November 1899) pp. 537-540</ref>
** The Dominion Line steamer ''Scotsman'' sinks in the [[Strait of Belle Isle]], killing 15 women and children. 
* [[September 25]] &ndash; A Serbian court sentences 30 people convicted for conspiracy to attempt to assassinate the former [[Milan I of Serbia|King Milan]], with the two leaders being sentenced to death.<ref name=O99/>
* [[September 26]] &ndash; General Manuel Guzman Alvarez of the [[Venezuela]]n [[Sucre (state)|state of Sucre]] joins with General [[Cipriano Castro]] in a revolt against the Venezuelan government.<ref name=O99/>
* [[September 28]] &ndash; Austrian auto designer [[Ferdinand Porsche]] attracts worldwide attention when his first car, the [[Porsche P1]], wins the Berlin Road Race 18 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.
* [[September 29]] &ndash; The [[Veterans of Foreign Wars]] (VFW) is founded in the U.S. by [[Spanish–American War]] veteran James C. Putnam as the American Veterans of Foreign Service.<ref>Herbert M. Mason Jr., ''VFW: Our First Century'' (Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1999) p. 29</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; The [[1899 Ceram earthquake]] kills 3,864 people on [[Seram Island]], through a tsunami after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The villages of Paulohy-Samasuru and Mani, with a combined population of 2,400 people, are swept away by a {{convert|29|foot}} wave.<ref>Dr. R. D. M. Verbeek, ''Kort verslag over de aarden zeebeving op Ceram, den 30sten september 1899'' (''Brief Report on the Earthquake and Seaquake on Ceram, September 30th, 1899'') (Batavia Landsdrukkerij, 1900) p. 1–11</ref>