The first third of November 1900 (1), interesting facts
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A new administrative reform comes into force in London. As a result, the British capital is divided into 20 districts, the so-called "boroughs". Due to the long-term unrest of the Carlists, in Spain the constitution is canceled by royal decree. The Carlist Party is banned, and mass arrests of the leadership are also taking place. The Russian Governor-General of the Grand Duchy of Finland Mykola Bobrykov orders the Finnish Senate to implement the provisions of the manifesto on the Russian language as soon as possible. In addition, contrary to the provisions of this manifesto, he instructed the provincial government to use only the Russian language from January 1, 1901. In the published article "Fortnightly Review", the head of the maritime customs administration in China, Peter Hart, assesses the chances of survival of Europeans in China as quite low. The introduction of a proportional electoral system for the elections of the National Council was rejected in a referendum in Switzerland. A case of plague has been diagnosed in Bremen, Germany. Republican William McKinley is re-elected president of the United States. A petition is submitted to the Senate in Paris against the depopulation of France. According to it, from January 1, 1901, unmarried persons of both sexes over the age of thirty must pay a special tax of 15%. Canada's general election ended with a landslide victory for the Liberals under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who has been in office since 1896. According to the statistical data of French newspapers, in 1899 there were 740 strikes in France in which almost 177 thousand workers took part. Entrance to the Paris World Exhibition is free on this day, but this does not lead to an increase in the number of visitors. The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, by decree dissolves the municipal administration of Naples, and orders an investigation into this administration, which is allegedly controlled by the Camorra terrorist political secret organization. Spanish Prime Minister Marcelo de Ascarraga y Palmero announced in Madrid that Spain had sold its last Pacific possessions of Cagayan and Libut to the United States of America for $100,000. The Belgian government, led by Prime Minister Count Paul de Smet de Nayers, who represents the interests of the Catholic party, is forming a committee of experts and parliamentarians to develop proposals for army reform. The creation of this committee is a concession by the opposition after the defeat in the elections on May 27. The typhoon in Hong Kong killed almost 1,000 people. Tickets for the closing ceremony of the World Exhibition in Paris increased 5 times compared to October. At the Iberian-American Congress in Madrid, which was attended by representatives of Spain, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Uruguay, the former colonial power Spain emphasized the need for the unification of Latin American states to have an opportunity to oppose US economic imperialism.
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