November 1900 - November 1, 1900 (Thursday)

November 1, 1900 (Thursday)

• Tsar Nicholas II became seriously ill with typhoid fever, precipitating a crisis in the Russian Empire during the entire month. When it appeared that the Tsar's death was imminent, his advisors argued over whether he should be succeeded by his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, or, since he had no sons, by his young daughter Olga. Sergei Witte, later the Prime Minister, related later that a revision of the succession law came from the crisis, that would have allowed women to succeed to the throne. Nicholas began recovering on November 28, and reigned until being deposed during the Bolshevik Revolution. Nicholas, Michael, Olga, and the rest of the royal family were murdered in 1918.
• Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Tametsi Futura Prospicientibus