1899–1920: Southern Football League and Western Football League (1900–1909) Although the founding of Portsmouth F.C. had been agreed on 5 April 1898, a football ground or a team of players did not exist until 1899. In 1899, work began on developing a plot of former agricultural land near Goldsmith Avenue, Milton, Portsmouth into a new football ground, bought in 1898 …

The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004.It was the top division in the English football league system from the season 1888–89 until 1991–92, a century in which the First Division's winning club became English men's football champions.. The First Division contained between 12 and 24 clubs, playing each other home …

Fashion in the period 1900–1909 in the Western world continued the severe, long and elegant lines of the late 1890s. Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full "Gibson Girl" hairstyles. A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the couturiers of Paris late in the decade signaled the approaching abandonment of the corset as an indispensable …

1900–1909. 1900: China: From May 24 to September 28, Boxer Rebellion. American troops participated in operations to protect foreign lives during the Boxer uprising, particularly at Peking. For many years after this experience a permanent legation guard was maintained in Peking, and was strengthened at times as trouble threatened.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion …

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (/ ˈ b uː n iː n / or / ˈ b uː n ɪ n /; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈbunʲɪn] (); 22 October [O.S. 10 October] 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.

February 20, 1900 – United Kingdom – A Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway freight train overran the buffer stops at Harcourt Street station, Dublin (now in the Republic of Ireland) and ran through the end wall of the station. 0-6-0 locomotive Wicklow was suspended over Hatch Street immediately after the collision.; April 30, 1900 – United States – The Cannonball Express …

Биография. Альфред Шнитке родился 24 ноября 1934 года в Энгельсе в Республике немцев Поволжья в еврейско-немецкой семье.Его отец, Гарри Викторович Шнитке (1914—1975), родился во Франкфурте-на-Майне, куда его родители перебрались из Либавы в 1910 году.В 1927 году (в некоторых ...

Antoni Gaudí schuf vor seinem ersten Auftrag für Güell bereits die Casa Vicens und El Capricho.Im März 1883 übernahm er die Leitung über den 1882 begonnenen Bau der Sagrada Família, dem er sich von 1914 bis 1926 vollständig widmete.Neben dem Palau Güell von 1886 bis 1889 leitete er noch von 1889 bis 1894 den Bau des Theresianerinnen-Stifts in Barcelona und …

Zie Film in 1897 voor het hoofdartikel over dit onderwerp.. Muziek. Johann Strauss jr. schrijft de operette Die Göttin der Vernunft Paul Dukas componeert L'apprenti sorcier (De tovenaarsleerling); 14 februari: eerste uitvoering van Hugo Alfvéns Symfonie nr. 1; 14 maart: Johan Halvorsen speelt zijn eigen Air norvégien en Noorse dansen nrs. 1 en 2 voor het eerst …