Timeline November 1899

Events in November 1899 4

• 1825 – 1899 Johann Strauss II Waltz King Austrian composer known as the Waltz King, famous for The Blue Danube and the operetta Die Fledermaus. He defined the sound of 19th-century Vienna.
• 1899 – 1901 The Boxer Rebellion Eight armies in Peking A movement of village martial artists the foreign press calls Boxers rises against Christian missionaries and foreign concessions, and the Qing court under Empress Dowager Cixi throws its weight behind them. The legations in Peking are besieged for fifty-five days until an eight-nation expedition — Japanese, Russian, British, French, American, German, Italian and Austro-Hungarian — fights its way in and loots the city. The Boxer Protocol imposes an indemnity of 450 million taels, roughly the Qing government's annual revenue several times over, and the dynasty never recovers its authority.
• 1899 – 1983 Pat O'Brien (1899-1983) American actor, the Irish priest, cop and coach of Warner Bros. films, including Knute Rockne, All American.
• 1899 Pat O'Brien born in Milwaukee Pat O'Brien is born in Milwaukee.