1899
Century's final year
1899 is a year in the common era, at the close of the nineteenth century.
It often appears in historical contexts marking the late Victorian period or the eve of the twentieth century.
In titles, 1899 may reference specific events: the class of 1899, the hurricane of 1899.
Numbers used as years take no commas or other punctuation.
Long-reigning British empress
- corsetsBoned, laced bodice garments
- top hatsTall formal headwear
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
colonialism · Charles Dickens · penny dreadfuls · steam engines · horse-drawn carriages · gentility · parlors · suffragettes
1898 US-Spain territorial conflict
- Boxer RebellionChinese anti-imperialist uprising, 1900
- Dreyfus AffairFrench antisemitic military injustice
- TransvaalHistoric South African province
Electrical message system
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
- wireless telegraphyCable-free signal transmission
pneumatic tire · daguerreotype · paddle steamer · transatlantic cable · electric light · cinematograph · X-ray · telephone
Late 1800s American prosperity
- turn-of-the-centuryTime near 1900 or 2000
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- Art NouveauCurvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
- SymbolismArt emphasizing ideas over reality
Oscar Wilde · absinthe · cabaret · bohemian · Moulin Rouge · Vienna Secession · aestheticism · dandyism
Queen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
etiquette · colonialism · Charles Dickens · penny dreadfuls · steam engines · horse-drawn carriages · gentility · parlors · suffragettes · crinoline
Spanish-American War
1898 US-Spain territorial conflict
- Boxer RebellionChinese anti-imperialist uprising, 1900
- Dreyfus AffairFrench antisemitic military injustice
- TransvaalHistoric South African province
telegraph
Electrical message system
- phonographGrooved disc audio player
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- locomotiveRailway pulling machine
wireless telegraphy · pneumatic tire · daguerreotype · paddle steamer · transatlantic cable · electric light · cinematograph · X-ray · telephone · streetcar
Gilded Age
Late 1800s American prosperity
- turn-of-the-centuryTime near 1900 or 2000
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- Art NouveauCurvilinear decorative movement, 1890s
Symbolism · Oscar Wilde · absinthe · cabaret · bohemian · Moulin Rouge · Vienna Secession · aestheticism · dandyism
Nikola Tesla
Henri Matisse · Rudyard Kipling · Scott Joplin · Emile Zola · Anton Chekhov · Toulouse-Lautrec
- 1890s1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894
- Horror AnthologiesCreepshow, The Twilight Zone, All Hallows Eve, Necronomicon, Darkroom