Sport
- 27 February - Foundation of Bayern Munich.
- 14 May - 28 October - The 1900 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris, France. Germany finishes seventh on the overall medal table with four gold medals, two silver and two bronze.
- 1 August - Foundation of Borussia Mönchengladbach
- 4 November - The German Rugby Federation (Deutscher Rugby-Verband) was founded at Kassel.
- The inaugural BMW Open tennis event is held by the Münchner Tennis- und Turnierclub (MTTC) Iphitos club.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)