Editing 1899 (section)

=== March ===
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Mount Rainier National Park]] is established in the U.S. state of [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. 
* [[March 3]] &ndash; [[Guglielmo Marconi]] conducts radio beacon experiments on [[Salisbury Plain]] and notices that radio waves are being reflected back to the transmitter by objects they encounter, one of the early steps in the development of [[radar]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJpNDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Reflected+Back%22+Marconi+%221899%22&pg=PA2 | title=Non-Linearities in Passive RFID Systems: Third Harmonic Concept and Applications| isbn=9781119490739| last1=Andia| first1=Gianfranco| last2=Duroc| first2=Yvan| last3=Tedjini| first3=Smail| date=2018-01-19| publisher=John Wiley & Sons}}</ref> 
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Cyclone Mahina]] strikes [[Bathurst Bay]], Queensland. A 12-meter-high wave reaches up to 5&nbsp;km inland, leaving over 400 dead (one of the deadliest [[List of natural disasters in Australia|natural disasters in Australia's history]]).
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* [[March 6]] &ndash; In [[Berlin]], [[Felix Hoffmann]] patents [[Aspirin]] and [[Bayer]] registers its name as a trademark.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/brandswithhistory/aspirin/index.html |title=Aspirin |date=18 October 2022 |access-date=6 March 2023 |work=Milestones: Aspirin |publisher=German Patent and Trademark Office}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] &ndash; The Frankfurter Fußball-Club Victoria von 1899 (predecessor of [[Eintracht Frankfurt]]) is founded.
* [[March 10]] &ndash; At the [[Battle of Balantang]], the U.S. Army sustains 400 casualties in an attack by Philippine troops.
* [[March 11]]
** The world's first wireless distress signal is sent by [[wireless telegraphy]] (in Morse code) to the East Goodwin [[light vessel]] when German cargo-carrying barquentine ''Elbe'' runs aground in fog in the [[English Channel]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Anne|last=Petrie|title=The Story of Kent|publisher=The History Press|year=2017}}</ref>
** [[Waldemar Jungner]] files the patent application for the first [[alkaline battery]] and receives a Swedish patent.<ref>"Jungner, Ernst Waldemar", in ''Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists'', by Kevin Desmond (McFarland Publishing 2016) p. 116</ref>
* [[March 14]] &ndash; After [[Second Samoan Civil War|a civil war]] breaks out in [[Samoa]] between [[Malietoa Tanumafili I]] (recognized by Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.) and rebels who recognize [[Mata'afa Iosefo]] as the island's king, the [[USS Philadelphia (C-4)|USS ''Philadelphia'']] takes control of the capital at [[Apia]]. 
* [[March 17]] &ndash; A fire kills 86 people at the [[Windsor Hotel (Manhattan)|Windsor Hotel]] in New York City.<ref>[https://www.city-journal.org/html/gotham-tragedy-gotham-memory-12399.html "Gotham Tragedy, Gotham Memory"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031004344/https://www.city-journal.org/html/gotham-tragedy-gotham-memory-12399.html |date=October 31, 2022 }}, by Christopher Gray, ''City-Journal'' (New York City), Winter 2003</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Phoebe (moon)|Phoebe]], the ninth-known moon of the planet [[Saturn]] is discovered by U.S. astronomer [[William Henry Pickering|William Pickering]] from analysis of photographic plates made by a Peruvian observatory, the first discovery of a satellite photographically.
* [[March 19]]
** One of the first labor unions for government employees is formed with the organization in [[Denmark]] of the [[Danish Municipal Workers' Union|Copenhagen Municipal Workers' Union]]
** The Battle of [[Taguig]] takes place in the Philippines as the USS ''Laguna de Bay'' bombards the [[Katipunan]] stronghold. 
* [[March 20]] &ndash; At [[Sing Sing]] prison in [[Ossining (town), New York|Ossining, New York]], [[Martha M. Place]] becomes the first woman to be executed in an [[electric chair]].
* [[March 21]] &ndash; The [[Eden Theatre]] in [[La Ciotat]], a commune in France near [[Marseille]], lays a claim to being the first [[movie theatre|cinema]] as brothers [[Auguste Lumière]] and [[Louis Lumière]] present their short film, ''L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat'' ("The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station") to 250 surprised spectators.<ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/20131009-worlds-oldest-cinema-eden-theatre-reopen-ciotat-train-france-lumiere "World's oldest cinema to reopen in France's La Ciotat"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031004341/https://www.france24.com/en/20131009-worlds-oldest-cinema-eden-theatre-reopen-ciotat-train-france-lumiere |date=October 31, 2022 }}, ''France 24'', September 10, 2013</ref>
* [[March 24]] &ndash; The U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, acting as arbitrator of a boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile, awards the disputed territory to Chile.<ref name="AROR499">''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (June 1899), pp. 539-542</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; In the first major action in the Malolos Campaign in the [[Philippine–American War]], 90 Filipino soldiers are killed in the [[Campaigns of the Philippine–American War#Significant battles: Malolos campaign|Battle of the Meycauayan bridge]].
* [[March 27]]
** [[Guglielmo Marconi]] successfully transmits a radio signal across the [[English Channel]].<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
** In the [[Battle of Marilao River]], Filipino forces under the personal command of Emilio Aguinaldo fail to prevent troops of the [[United States Army]] crossing the river.
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The British steamer ''Stella'' sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 80 people after wrecking against [[Les Casquets]].<ref name="AROR499"/>
* [[March 31]]
** The United Kingdom announces that it has completed the purchase of rights to occupy the Kingdom of Tonga.<ref name="AROR499"/>
** In the [[Philippine–American War]], [[Malolos]], capital of the [[First Philippine Republic]], is [[Capture of Malolos|captured by American forces]].