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*1900/4/14 [[Paris World's Fair]], at which Japan exhibits, opens.
 
*1900/4/14 [[Paris World's Fair]], at which Japan exhibits, opens.
 
*1900/summer [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China.
 
*1900/summer [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China.
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*1900/6/14 The Organic Act passed by the US Congress goes into effect, banning contract labor throughout the US (and thus freeing [[Japanese immigration to Hawaii|Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii]] from their contracts). Hawaii officially begins to be administered as a Territory of the United States.
  
 
==Other Events of 1900==
 
==Other Events of 1900==

Revision as of 20:08, 27 June 2014

Meiji 33 (明治三十三年)

Timeline of 1900

  • 1900/1/8 The first Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii arrive in Honolulu. They are kept in quarantine for roughly a week.
  • 1900/1/16 Twenty-six Okinawan immigrants to Hawaii are sent to Ewa plantation (on O'ahu).
  • 1900/1/13-30 The first (modern-style) public exhibition of work by Hokusai to be held in Japan takes place at Ueno Park in Tokyo.
  • 1900/4/14 Paris World's Fair, at which Japan exhibits, opens.
  • 1900/summer Boxer Rebellion in China.
  • 1900/6/14 The Organic Act passed by the US Congress goes into effect, banning contract labor throughout the US (and thus freeing Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii from their contracts). Hawaii officially begins to be administered as a Territory of the United States.

Other Events of 1900

Births and Deaths


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