Editing 1899 (section)

=== January ===
[[File:Cu-map.png|thumb|160px|right| [[January 1]]: [[Cuba]] [[Independence|free]].]]
* [[January 1]]
** Spanish rule ends in [[Cuba]], concluding 400 years of the [[Spanish Empire]] in the Americas.
** [[Queens]] and [[Staten Island]] become administratively part of [[New York City]].
* [[January 5]] &ndash; A fierce battle is fought between American troops and Filipino defenders at the town of [[Pililla]] on the island of Luzon.
* [[January 8]] &ndash; The [[Association football]] club [[SK Rapid Wien]] is founded in [[Vienna]].
* [[January 9]] &ndash; After a [[Cretan Revolt (1897–1898)|successful revolt]] against the [[Ottoman Empire]] by the inhabitants of the island of [[Crete]], the area, which joins Greece, gets its first constitution.
* [[January 10]] &ndash; The [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] fraternity is founded, at [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] in [[Bloomington, Illinois]].
* [[January 13]] &ndash; The [[Canadian Northern Railway]] is established.<ref>"Canadian Pacific Railway", by Donald M. Bain, in ''Encyclopedia of North American Railroads''. ed. by William D. Middleton, et al. (Indiana University Press, 2007) p. 197</ref>
* [[January 14]]
** The [[White Star Line]]'s [[Transatlantic crossing|transatlantic]] [[ocean liner]] {{RMS|Oceanic|1899|6}} is launched from the [[Belfast]] shipyards in [[Ireland]]. At 17,272 [[gross register tons]] and {{convert|704|ft|m|abbr=on}}, she is the largest ship afloat at this time.<ref>{{cite web|title=R.M.S. Oceanic (II)|publisher=Jeff Newman|url=http://www.greatships.net/oceanic2.html|access-date=2010-01-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919061706/http://www.greatships.net/oceanic2.html|archive-date=2009-09-19}}</ref> 
** The British four-masted sailing ship ''Andelana'' [[capsize]]s during a storm in [[Commencement Bay]] off the coast of the U.S. state of [[Washington (state)|Washington]], with the loss of all 17 of her crew.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990115.2.113&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title="Vessel Goes Down at Night During a Squall and Is Not Missed until Morning", ''San Francisco Call'', January 15, 1899 |access-date=April 17, 2022 |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027195023/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990115.2.113&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; The United States takes possession of [[Wake Island]] in the Pacific Ocean.
* [[January 19]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] is formed (it is disbanded in [[1956]]).
* [[January 21]]
** [[Opel]] Motors opens for business in Germany.
** The [[Malolos Constitution]] is ratified by the [[Revolutionary Government of the Philippines (1898–1899)|Revolutionary Government of the Philippines]].
[[File:OpelLutzmann.jpg|thumb|170px|right|[[January 21]]: [[Opel]] car.]]
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The leaders of six Australian colonies meet in [[Melbourne]], to discuss the con[[federation of Australia]] as a whole.
* [[January 23]]
** [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] is sworn in as President of the [[First Philippine Republic]].
** [[Mubarak Al-Sabah]], the emir of [[Kuwait]], signs the [[Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899]], a secret treaty with the British Empire to accept [[protectorate]] status for the Middle Eastern sheikdom in return for British protection of Kuwaiti territory.
** The British [[Southern Cross Expedition]] crosses the [[Antarctic Circle]].
* [[January 24]] &ndash; The [[Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine]] is founded.
* [[January 26]] &ndash; German inventor [[Karl Ferdinand Braun]], who will later share the 1909 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] with [[Guglielmo Marconi]], receives a British patent for his wireless radio invention "Telegraphy without directly connected wire".<ref>Anton A. Huurdeman, ''The Worldwide History of Telecommunications'' (Wiley, 2003) p. 215</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Camille Jenatzy]] of France becomes the first man to drive an automobile more than 80 kilometers per hour, when he reaches a speed of 80.35 kph in his CGA Dogcart racecar. Jenatzy's speed is more than 20% faster than the previous record.
* [[January 28]] &ndash; The [[League of Peja]], organized by [[Haxhi Zeka]] to lobby for a Kosovar Albanian state within the Ottoman Empire, attracts 450 delegates to its first convention, held at the city of [[Peja]].<ref>George Gawrych, ''The Crescent and the Eagle: Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006) p. 125</ref>