Editing 1899 (section)

=== June ===
* [[June 2]] &ndash; American outlaws Robert L. Parker ([[Butch Cassidy]]) and Harry A. Longabaugh ("[[The Sundance Kid]]") commit their first armed robbery as "[[Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch|The Wild Bunch]]", stopping a [[Union Pacific]] train near [[Wilcox, Wyoming]], with accomplices [[Harvey Logan]] and [[Elzy Lay]], and steal more than $30,000 worth of cargo.
* [[June 3]]
** [[Dreyfus affair]]: France's Court of Cassation orders a reopening of the 1894 conviction for treason of French Army Captain [[Alfred Dreyfus]] after evidence of a wrongful conviction is made public, and directs that Dreyfus be returned to France after five years of imprisonment on [[Devil's Island]].<ref name="AROR699"/>
** The United States and Spain resume diplomatic relations, as U.S. President McKinley receives the [[José Brunetti, 15th Duke of Arcos|Duke of Arcos]] as the new Minister for Spain.<ref name="AROR699"/>
* [[June 5]] &ndash; General [[Antonio Luna]], Commander of the Philippine Republican Army, is assassinated along with his chief aide, Colonel [[Paco Román]], after being lured to [[Cabanatuan]] by President [[Emilio Aguinaldo]].
* [[June 9]] &ndash; American boxer [[James J. Jeffries]] wins the world heavyweight boxing championship when he knocks out [[Cornwall|Cornish]]-born [[Bob Fitzsimmons]] at [[Coney Island, New York]].<ref name=Carruth>{{cite book|editor=Carruth, Gordon|title=The Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dates|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam0000carr|url-access=registration|edition=3rd|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell|year=1962|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam0000carr/page/384 384–387]}}</ref>
* [[June 10]] &ndash; Under the terms of the [[Samoa Tripartite Convention]], Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States form a colonial government to administer a [[protectorate]] over the islands of [[Samoa]]. The government lasts less than nine months, and Germany annexes the western part of Samoa on March 1, 1900, leaving the U.S. to control what becomes [[American Samoa]].
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo XIII]] issues a declaration of the [[consecration]] of the entire human race to the [[Sacred Heart]] of Jesus. The consecration follows the issuance of his papal [[encyclical]] ''[[Annum sacrum]]'', declaring [[1900]] to be a [[Holy Year]] and directing all Roman Catholic churches in the world to implement the [[Prayer of Consecration to the Sacred Heart]] during the period of June 9 to June 11, 1899.
* [[June 12]] &ndash; The [[1899 New Richmond tornado|New Richmond tornado]] completely destroys the town of [[New Richmond, Wisconsin]], killing 117 and injuring more than 200.
* [[June 13]] &ndash; The village of [[Herman, Nebraska]], with a population of 319, is destroyed by a tornado and 40 people are killed.<ref name="AROR699"/>
* [[June 15]]
** [[Sweden]]'s Department of Foreign Affairs hosts a conference for delegates from Germany, Denmark, Norway, the UK, the Netherlands, Russia and Sweden to make agreements on fishing in the [[Arctic Ocean]], the [[Baltic Sea]] and the [[North Sea]].<ref>Eric L. Mills, ''Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960'' (University of Toronto Press, 2012) p.83</ref>
** [[Jardine Cycle & Carriage|Cycle & Carriage]], one of the largest companies in [[Singapore]], is founded.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[David Hilbert]] creates the modern concept of [[geometry]], with the publication of his book ''Grundlagen der Geometrie'', released at [[Göttingen]].<ref>Volkert, Klaus, ed. (2015). ''David Hilbert: Grundlagen der Geometrie''. Springer. p. ix; Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2005). ''Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940'' Elsevier. p. 713.</ref> 
* [[June 18]] &ndash; The [[Federación Libre de Trabajadores]] is created in [[Puerto Rico]] as a [[Anarchism in Puerto Rico#Anarchists vs. American government|resistance movement against the United States]].
* [[June 19]]
** The [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] is created, to be a territory to be administered jointly by Egypt and the United Kingdom, through an Egyptian governor-general appointed with consent of the UK, although in practice it becomes administered as part of the British Empire. 
** [[Edward Elgar]]'s ''[[Enigma Variations]]'' are premiered in London.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Jerrold Northrop|author-link=Jerrold Northrop Moore|year=1984|title=Edward Elgar: A Creative Life|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-315447-1|page=273}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] &ndash; "[[Treaty 8]]", the most comprehensive of the eleven [[Numbered Treaties]], is signed between the British Crown on behalf of Canada, with various [[Cree]] groups of the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]], ceding {{convert|320000|sqmi}} of land in the northern parts of [[Alberta]], [[Saskatchewan]], and [[British Columbia]], as well as a portion of the [[Northwest Territories]], to the Canadian government.
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Spain]] cedes its last Pacific Ocean colonies, the [[Caroline Islands]] (later part of the [[Federated States of Micronesia]], [[Mariana Islands#Spanish exploration and control|the Ladrone islands of Ladrone]] (later part of the [[Mariana Islands]]), and [[Palau]], to [[Germany]].<ref name="AROR799">''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (August 1899)</ref>
* [[June 26]] &ndash; [[Joseph Chamberlain]] sets into motion the [[Second Boer War]] after receiving an appeal from the British [[Cape Colony]] in South Africa to help British subjects oppressed in the [[South African Republic|Transvaal Republic]].<ref>Bertrand M. Roehner and Tony Syme, ''Pattern and Repertoire in History'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) p. 311</ref>
* [[June 27]]
** A patent for a form of [[paperclip]] is applied for by Norwegian inventor [[Johan Vaaler]] but it is never put into production.<ref>[https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-paper-clip-4072863 The History and Invention of the Paperclip.]</ref>
** [[A. E. J. Collins]], a 13-year-old schoolboy, makes the highest-ever recorded individual score in cricket, 628 [[not out]]. His record will stand for 117 years.
* [[June 28]] &ndash; In [[Nigeria]], British authorities publicly hang King Ologbosere Irabor outside of the courthouse at [[Benin City]], after he was convicted of ordering the massacre of a party dispatched by the British consul.<ref>"Understanding sacrifice and sanctity in Benin indigenous religion, Nigeria: a case study", by Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, in ''Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity'', ed. by Jacob K. Olupona (Routledge, 2004) p. 198</ref> 
* [[June 30]] &ndash; '[[Mile-a-Minute Murphy]]' earns his nickname after he becomes the first man to ride a bicycle for {{convert|1|mi|km|adj=on|spell=in}} in under a minute, on [[Long Island]]. Murphy pedals his bike one mile in 57.8 seconds for an average speed of 62.28 miles per hour.<ref name="AROR799"/>