Editing 1900 (section)

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1900}}
* [[December 5]] – The final [[Anglo-Ashanti wars|Anglo-Ashanti War]], "[[War of the Golden Stool]]", is declared over. Most of the British troops and [[James Willcocks|Governor James Willcocks]] depart the city of [[Kumasi]].
* [[December 14]] – [[History of quantum mechanics]]: [[Max Planck]] presents his groundbreaking paper on [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] to the [[German Physical Society]] in [[Berlin]].
* [[December 16]] – The German training [[frigate]] ''[[SMS Gneisenau (1879)|Gneisenau]]'', with 450 naval cadets on board, sinks in a storm during exercises off of the Spanish coast at [[Málaga]], drowning 136.
* [[December 17]] – The [[Prix Guzman]], first and only prize ever offered for communication with [[extraterrestrial life]], is announced in [[Paris]]. A prize of 100,000 francs is provided, except for communication with [[Mars]], which is considered too easy.
* [[December 19]] – [[Hopetoun Blunder]]: The first [[Governor-General of Australia]], [[John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun]], appoints Sir [[William Lyne]] premier of the new state of [[New South Wales]], but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government, and is forced to resign.
* [[December 23]] – [[Reginald Fessenden]] makes the first use of [[amplitude modulation]] (the basis for [[AM broadcasting|AM radio]]) for wireless transmission of the human voice, from [[Cobb Island (Maryland)]].
* [[December 24]] – [[Boxer Rebellion]] Demands: The foreign powers present their 12 conditions for reform to the [[Qing dynasty|Chinese Imperial]] government, including the payment of a large indemnity.
* [[December 28]] – The first steel produced by [[electrometallurgy]] (from an electric furnace) is delivered.