Timeline October 1899

Events in October 1899 2

• 1854 – 1899 Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) Died 28 October 1899, aged 45 German-born American inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine, patented in 1884. His machine revolutionized newspaper and book printing by mechanizing typesetting. He died of tuberculosis in Baltimore.
• 1899 – 1902 The Second Boer War Where the concentration camp got its name The British Empire takes nearly three years and close to half a million troops to defeat two small Afrikaner republics. After losing the conventional war the Boers turn to commando raids, and Kitchener answers with blockhouses, farm burning and the internment of civilians in camps where around 28,000 Boers, most of them children, and at least 20,000 black Africans die of disease and hunger. Emily Hobhouse's reporting on the camps causes a scandal in Britain. The war ends at Vereeniging with annexation, and lays the groundwork for the Union of South Africa.