October 16, 1900 (Tuesday)
- Britain and Germany signed an agreement in London, providing that they would oppose the partition of China into spheres of influence. The "Yangtze Agreement", signed by Lord Salisbury and Ambassador Hatzfeldt, was an endorsement of the Open Door Policy proposed by the United States for free trade in China.
- Pierre Giffard founded L'Auto-Velo, later referred to simply as L'Auto, the first daily publication devoted exclusively to automobiles and cycling.
- Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announced her engagement to Duke Hendrik of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They were married on February 7, 1901, and Prince Hendrik served as consort until his death in 1934.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)