| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1897/00/00 | Construction begins on the Grand Palais, an exhibition hall for the 1900 Exposition. | Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris |
| 1898/00/00 | Designed by architects Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux, construction begins on the Orsay railway station for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. | Musee d'Orsay, Paris |
| 1899/00/00 | Alphons Mucha designs jewelry made by Georges Fouquet for the Paris Expo. The pieces include a helmet with chains, a bodice ornament with shoulder pieces and a bracelet linked to a ring. Some critics will call the objects "odd" with "a weird richness". | |
| 1900/00/00 | Grand Palais exhibition hall is finished for the 1900 Exposition. | Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris |
| 1900/00/00 | Eugene Cornuche remodels Maxim's bistro into an Art Nouveau masterpiece in time for the Universal Exhibition. | Restaurant Maxim's, Paris |
| 1900/00/00 | Redesigned by the Toulon architect Marius Toudoire, Gare de Lyon readies for the World Exposition of 1900. | Paris-Gare de Lyon, Paris |
| 1900/00/00 | Orsay railway station is completed for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, designed by architects Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux. | Musee d'Orsay, Paris |
| 1900/03/00 | Designed by Gustave Eiffel, La Rucheis is built as a wine rotunda for the Great Exposition of 1900. | La Ruche Studios, Paris |
| 1900/04/00 | Brutus J Clay serves as a United states Commissioner at the Paris Exposition. | Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris |
| 1900/05/00 | James Deering presents Deering Harvester Company products at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and is inducted into the French Legion of Honor. | |
| 1900/07/00 | A new light system by Sautter, Marle and Co is bought at the 1900 Paris World Fair, for three million gold rubles. The new apparatus (including the light chamber) uses a kerosene lamp with a gas mantle. | Kopu Lighthouse, Estonia |
| 1900/07/19 | Line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot opens with 8 stations for the Exposition Universelle of 1900. | M01: La Defense-Grande Arche to Chateau de Vincennes, Paris Metro Line, |
| 1900/07/19 | Tuileries metro station opens on the first section of line 1 between Porte de Vincennes and Porte Maillot. | Tuileries Metro Station, Paris |
| 1900/08/18 | The Exposition awards ceremony is attended by 11,500 people. Prizes include: 3,156 grand prizes, 8,889 gold medals, 13,300 silver medals, 12,108 bronze medals, and 8,422 honorable mentions | |
| 1900/08/18 | Saint-Gaudens wins a grand prize for sculpture for plaster versions of "The Sherman" and "The Shaw" and is awarded the Legion of Honor. When Auguste Rodin sees the Shaw Monument, he stops, takes off his hat and bows his head in silence. | Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial, Boston |
| 1900/08/18 | Plaster cast of Louis Sullivan's Getty Tomb door is exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. | Getty Tomb, Graceland Cemetery |
| 1900/08/18 | Gyorgy Zala's statue of the Archangel Gabriel wins a "Grand Prix" medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. | Heroes' Square, Pest, Budapest |
| 1900/08/18 | Gustav Klimt is awarded a prize for his painting "Philosophy" (lost). | |
| 1900/08/18 | Saint-Gaudens is awarded the Legion of Honor and the grand prize for sculpture for plaster versions of "The Sherman" and "The Shaw". | Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan, New York City |
| 1900/08/18 | Graceland Cemetery wins a Silver Medal for Landscaping at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. | Graceland Cemetery, Chicago |
| 1900/08/18 | John S Sargent wins a Medal in Painting for "Portrait of Mrs Asher B Wertheimer" at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. | Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris |
| 1900/08/18 | Charles A Platt wins Medals in Painting for two works of art, CLOUDS and WINTER, at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. | Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris |
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