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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1900.

Events

  • March 5 – New York performances of the play Sapho curbed for immorality.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=10|ISBN=0-942191-01-3}}
  • March 15 – Sarah Bernhardt stars in premiere of Edmond Rostand's l'Aiglon.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=12|ISBN=0-942191-01-3}}
  • May
  • Rainer Maria Rilke makes his second visit to Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé and her husband.{{Cite book |first=Anna A. |last=Tavis |title=Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter |publisher=Northwestern University Press |year=1997 |isbn=0-8101-1466-6 |page=1}}
  • The first film to feature the detective character Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, is released by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
  • May 17 – L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is published in Chicago, the first of Baum's books chronicling the fictional Land of Oz for children.
  • June 24 – The Hanlin Academy in Peking, housing "the oldest and richest library in the world", catches fire and is destroyed during the Boxer Rebellion.{{Citation |url=http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-davd.htm |title=Destruction Of Chinese Books in the Peking Siege Of 1900 |first1=Donald G. |last1=Davis |first2=Cheng |last2=Huanwen |publisher=International Federation of Library Association |accessdate=2008-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919024848/http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-davd.htm|archive-date=2008-09-19 |url-status=dead}}
  • June 25 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts in the Library Cave or Cave for Preserving Scriptures, No. 17 of the Mogao Caves in north-west China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.
  • July 1 – The Net Book Agreement comes into force in the U.K: publishers will supply booksellers only on condition that they do not retail the supplied books at a discounted rate.
  • October 15 – Mark Twain ends an absence from the United States of some nine years when he returns to New York aboard the Atlantic Transport Line steamship Minnehaha.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=20|ISBN=0-942191-01-3}}
  • November 1 – Ermete Novelli opens the "Casa di Goldoni", a new theatre in imitation of the Comédie Française, at Rome.{{cite book|author=Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor|title=Goldoni: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDddAAAAMAAJ|year=1913|publisher=Duffield|page=655}}
  • November 19 – August Strindberg's To Damascus (Till Damaskus, first two parts) receives its première at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm with August Palme and Harriet Bosse, Strindberg's future wife, in the leading rôles.
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  • In Austrian-Hungarian Bosnia, Osman Nuri Hadžić issues Behar, the first Bosnian Muslim literary journal, promoting liberal Islam within the Islamic revival movement.{{Cite book |last=Okey |first=Robin |title=Taming Balkan Nationalism. The Habsburg "Civilizing Mission" in Bosnia 1878–1914 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford etc. |year=2007 |pages=168–169, 240 |isbn=978-0-19-921391-7}}
  • The first film of Hamlet is an adaptation of the duel scene, with the French actress Sarah Bernhardt playing the title rôle.

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