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The two large powers would use the Julian calendar until World War I, and by 1901, the difference between the two had grown to 13 days; January 1, 1901, for the rest of the world had been December 18, 1900, on the Julian calendar. Russia ordered the withdrawal of its troops from the Zhili province of China and moved them to Manchuria. [2]
The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed by the Governor-General, Lord Hopetoun on 1 January 1901, and Edmund Barton was sworn in as Australia's first prime minister. [1] The new Commonwealth was a federation of the six former British colonies of Australia, which now became states.
1 January – The Constitution of Australia comes into force, as the federation of Australia is complete. John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, is appointed as the first Governor-General, and Edmund Barton as the first Prime Minister. 1 March – Following federation naval and military forces of the States are transferred to Commonwealth control.
It was proclaimed on 1 January 1901 in Centennial Park, Sydney. Sir Edmund Barton was sworn in as the interim Prime Minister, leading an interim Federal ministry of nine members. [citation needed] The new constitution established a bicameral Parliament, containing a Senate and a House of Representatives.
January 1 – Pentecostalism is born, at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas. January 3 – Census Commissioner predicts a US population of at least 300 million by 2001; January 5 – Typhoid fever breaks out in a Seattle jail, the first of two typhoid outbreaks in the United States during the year.
The Barton ministry (Protectionist) was the 1st ministry of the Government of Australia.It was led by the country's 1st prime minister, Sir Edmund Barton.The Barton ministry was formed on 1 January 1901 when Federation took place.
The Proclamation Declaring the Establishment of the Commonwealth was a royal proclamation made by Queen Victoria on 17 September 1900 federating the six separate British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia under the name of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The date of Friday December 13 20:45:52 1901 is significant for modern computers because it is the earliest date representable with a signed 32-bit integer on systems that reference time in seconds since the Unix epoch. This corresponds to -2147483648 seconds from Thursday January 1 00:00:00 1970.