The Siege of Mafeking was broken. It had started on October 13, 1899.
Robert Baden-Powell had lead the defense of the city. He'd shortly thereafter form the Boy Scouts.
Chinese Christians were murdered at Kaolo.
The first copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, came off the press. The first run of 10,000 copies had been sold prior to publication.
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Boer forces under Christiaan de Wet attacked at Sanna's Post, taking 400 British POWS and cutting off the water supply to Bloemfontein, which resulted in the spread of typhus.
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South Africa's best general, Piet Joubert, died of peritonitis at age 68.
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The British lost 1,097 men at Colenso, the their such serious loss in one week.
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The Boer Potchefstroom and Lichtenburg commandos attacked and captured the British garrison and railway siding at Kraaipan between Vryburg and Mafeking.
Admiral Dewey was welcomed home to his native Vermont in what was declared as Dewey Day.
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Rebel Boer units were attacked by the South African Army, forcing Boer general Christian Frederick Beyers to disperse his forces.
The Germans suspended attacks at Ypres to regroup.
Exhaustion and language difficulties frustrated a British effort at Neuve-Chapelle.
French troops held at Armentières in spite of a two day German artillery bombardment.
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I am a Yugoslav nationalist and I believe in unification of all South Slavs in whatever form of state and that it be free of Austria ... By means of terror.
The Germans took Ghent.
The French and British took back the Mont des Cats.
The Union of South Africa declared martial law in response to the Maritz Rebellion.
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Boer troops surrendered at Paardeberg.
Bayern Munich, the football club, was founded.
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British forces under Lord Kitchener charged Boer trenches at Paadeberg, sustaining 1,100 casualties of which 280 were deaths. The day was thereafter called "Bloody Sunday".
The attack in which the Boers head their fire until the British were within 100 meters of their trenches, was a failure.
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For the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards was unsheathed at Merionethshire in Wales and the chief bard "invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil".
Boer troops fighting at Ladysmith attempted a raid on British positions resulting in 1,000 British casualties.
The German ship Herzog was seized by the HMS Thetis on suspicition that it was carrying supplies to the Boers, which it was not.
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