Editing 1899 (section)

=== July ===
* [[July 1]]
** The [[International Council of Nurses]] is founded in London.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sandra B.|last=Lewenson|title=Taking Charge: Nursing, Suffrage, and Feminism in America, 1873-1920|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|page=95}}</ref>
** The German domestic appliance company [[Miele]] is founded.
* [[July 3]] &ndash; Swiss-born American boxer [[Frank Erne]] wins the world lightweight championship by defeating champion [[Kid Lavigne|George "Kid" Lavigne]] in [[Buffalo, New York]].
* [[July 4]] &ndash; The most famous skeleton of a [[dinosaur]] ever found intact, a [[diplodocus]], is discovered at the Sheep Creek Quarry near [[Medicine Bow, Wyoming]]. The expedition team, financed by [[Andrew Carnegie]] for the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]] and led by William Harlow Reed, bestows the name "[[Dippy]]" on the ''Diplodocus carnegii''. It becomes well known after Carnegie has plaster cast replicas made for donation to museums all over the world. <ref>"A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)", by Emanuel Tschopp, et al., [[PeerJ]], 2015</ref>
* [[July 5]] &ndash; The 1895 Trade and Navigation agreement between the Japanese and Russian empires goes into effect, with each country was given "a full freedom of ship and cargo entrance to all places, ports, and rivers on the other country's territory."<ref>"Military Activity in the EEZ: Exclusive or Excluded Right", by Captain Alexander S. Skaridov, in ''Freedom of Seas, Passage Rights and the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention'' (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009) p. 251</ref>
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[The Great Lakes Group|The Great Lakes Towing Company]] is incorporated by [[John D. Rockefeller]] and [[William G. Mather]] to acquire more than 150 [[tugboat]]s to control shipping in four of the North American [[Great Lakes]] and quickly builds a monopoly on Great Lakes traffic.
* [[July 8]] &ndash; The [[Lorelei Fountain]] is unveiled in [[The Bronx]] in New York City.
* [[July 10]] &ndash; British colonial authorities in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan give control of the [[Red Sea]] port of [[Suakin]] to [[Sudan]], after having agreed that Egypt would have the right to administer commerce there. 
* [[July 11]] – In [[Turin]], [[Giovanni Agnelli]] and eight investors form the Italian automobile manufacturer [[Fiat Automobiles|F.I.A.T.]], producers of the [[Fiat]] motor vehicles.
* [[July 12]] &ndash; The British freight ship ''[[City of York (barque)|City of York]]'' sinks after striking reefs at [[Rottnest Island]], due to a misunderstanding of signal flare fired from [[Wadjemup Lighthouse|the island's lighthouse]]. The ship, which was nearing the end of a voyage from [[San Francisco]] to [[Fremantle, Western Australia]], evacuates its men in two lifeboats, but one of the boats overturns and 11 men, including the captain, drown.
* [[July 13]] &ndash; A tornado kills 13 people in the U.S. village of [[Herman, Nebraska]].
* [[July 14]] &ndash; The first [[Republic of Acre]] is declared by former Spanish journalist [[Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias]] in the Amazon jungle in South America, and lasts for nine months. 
* [[July 17]]
** [[NEC Corporation]] is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
** In the [[Battle of Togbao]] in [[Chad]], the French [[Henri Bretonnet|Bretonnet]]–[[Solomon Braun|Braun]] mission is destroyed by the warlord [[Rabih az-Zubayr]].
** The [[Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation]] takes effect, ending [[extraterritoriality]] and the unequal status of Japan in foreign commerce.<ref>{{cite book|first=Joseph M.|last=Henning|title=Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations|publisher=New York University Press|year=2000|page=134}}</ref>
* [[July 18]] &ndash; The patent for the first [[sofa bed]] is taken out by African-American inventor [[Leonard C. Bailey]]. He receives a U.S. patent on June 2, 1900.
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Park Row Building]] in [[New York City]] is completed. It is the world's tallest building until [[1908]].
* [[July 24]] &ndash; In the first trade treaty signed by the U.S. after the passage of the [[Dingley Act]], France and the United States sign an agreement for a 20% reduction of France's existing tariffs on 635 items, in return for the U.S. reduction between 5% and 20% of duty fees on 126 items.<ref>David A. Lake, ''Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887–1939'' (Cornell University Press, 2018) p. 130</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; The [[List of presidents of the Dominican Republic|President of the Dominican Republic]], dictator [[Ulises Heureaux]], is assassinated during a visit to the city of [[Moca, Dominican Republic|Moca]].<ref name=AROR899>''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (September 1899) pp. 277-280</ref>
* [[July 29]] &ndash; The first international Peace Conference ends, with the signing of the [[First Hague Convention]].
* [[July 30]] &ndash; The [[Harriman Alaska Expedition]] ends.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; [[Duke of York Island (Antarctica)|Duke of York Island]], off [[Antarctica]], is discovered by the [[Southern Cross Expedition]].<ref>C. E. Borchgrevink, ''First on the Antarctic Continent: Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900'' (London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1901)</ref>