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{{Infobox weapon|is_ranged=yes|
name=M1900/Browning No.1
|image=[[File:Browning 1900 (6971783631).jpg|300px|center]]
|caption=Browning 1900 .32 ACP
|origin={{plainlist|
*United States (designed)
*Belgium (manufactured)}}
|type=[[Semi-automatic pistol]]
|designer=[[John Browning]]<ref name=MF/>
|design_date=1896
|service=
|production_date = 1898-1909
|cartridge=[[.32 ACP]] (7.65×17mm Browning SR)<ref name=MF/>
|action=[[Blowback (arms)|Blowback operated]]
|weight={{convert|625|g|lbs|abbr=on}}<ref name=MF/>
|length={{convert|17.2|cm|abbr=on}}<ref name=MF/>
|part_length={{convert|10.2|cm|abbr=on}}<ref name=MF/>
|feed=7+1<ref name=MF/>
|sights=Fixed
|variants=Modele 1899, Mle. 1900
|number=c. 700,000<ref name=MF>{{cite web|title=FN / Browning M.1900 (Browning No.1) pistol (Belgium)|date=21 October 2010 |url=http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg/be/fn-browning-m1900-e.html|publisher=Modern Firearms|access-date=20 December 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218075919/http://modernfirearms.net/en/handguns/handguns-en/belgium-semi-automatic-pistols/fn-browning-m1900-eng/|archive-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref>
|}}

The '''FN Browning M1900''' (known at the time in Europe just as '''Browning pistol''') is a [[trigger (firearms)#Single-action|single action]] [[Semi-automatic self-loading pistol|semi-automatic pistol]] designed c. 1896 by [[John Browning]] for [[Fabrique Nationale de Herstal]] (FN) and produced in Belgium at the turn of the 20th century. It was the first production handgun to use a [[pistol slide|slide]].

==History==
=== Development ===
[[File:Browning gas-operated pistol protoype.jpg|left|thumb|Browning's earliest 1895 pistol prototype]]
[[John Browning]] started his work on [[semi-automatic pistol]]s in 1894, when he mostly finalized the [[M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=Gorenstein |first=Nathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8JrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |title=The Guns of John Moses Browning: The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World |date=2022-05-17 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-9821-2922-4 |language=en}}</ref> He initially tried to use the same gas action with a swinging piston, with a prototype ready to be shown to [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] in July 1895,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical Firearms - John Browning's Gas-Operated Pistol On the 20th... |url=https://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/147013210147/john-brownings-gas-operated-pistol-on-the-20th |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=www.historicalfirearms.info}}</ref> and applied for a patent<ref>{{US patent|580923}}</ref> in September 1895.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Grumpy |date=2018-11-23 |title=The 1899/1900 FN Browning Pistol |url=https://www.youwillshootyoureyeout.com/2018/11/23/the-18991900-fn-browning-pistol/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=You Will Shoot Your Eye Out |language=en-US}}</ref>
[[File:1896–97 Browning blowback-operated pistol protoype.jpg|left|thumb|Browning's .38 blowback pistol prototype, which was scaled down to create the FN M1899]]
Although this experimental pistol did not progress further, its general layout and [[fire control group]] design were reused in three other designs he developed in the following year. Patents for them were filed in October 1896, and two out of three later became [[Colt M1900]] and FN M1900.<ref name=":22" /> All four prototypes were chambered in .38 caliber and are currently exhibited at the Browning Firearms Museum in [[Ogden, Utah]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=F |first=Nathaniel |date=2015-01-31 |title=TFB Field Trip: The John M. Browning Firearms Museum |url=https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/01/30/tfb-field-trip-john-m-browning-firearms-museum/ |access-date=2024-09-01 |website=thefirearmblog.com |language=en}}</ref> Browning licensed the rights to produce and sell them to Colt within the US and Canada in July 1896, but it's believed at the time Colt was mainly protecting its revolver market.<ref name=":22" /> In 1896<ref name=":12">John Browning and [[Curt Gentry]], ''John M. Browning, American Gunmaker, An Illustrated Biography of the Man and His Guns'', Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1964, p. 181; Anthony Vanderlinden, "1899: Year of the Browning Pistol", ''[[American Rifleman]]'', Vol. 168, No. 9 (October 2020), p. 40.</ref> or 1897<ref>According to the Browning Firearms Museum, see https://i.imgur.com/X6Pn4BX.jpeg; {{US patent|621747}} was only applied for in December 1897</ref> Browning also scaled the .38 blowback pistol down to .32 caliber to use as a [[pocket pistol]].
[[File:Browning Mod 1900 Patent 1899.JPG|thumb|US patent for the Browning .32 pistol, issued in 1899]]

According to a widespread legend,<ref name=":6" /> in April 1897<ref name=":32">{{Cite web |title=JOHN M. BROWNING |url=https://johnmbrowningcollection.com/pages/story.html |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=johnmbrowningcollection.com}}</ref> FN sent their sales manager [[Hart O. Berg]] to [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]], where he had previously worked, to investigate advances in bicycle design introduced by the [[Pope Manufacturing Company]].<ref name=":12" /> There, he supposedly accidentally met [[John Browning]]<ref name=":12" /> and persuaded him to have his pistol manufactured at FN by telling him the story of a modern factory with nothing to produce.<ref name=":7" />

Despite [[state-of-the-art]] manufacturing capabilities, by the end of 1895 FN was in poor financial shape due to a lack of orders on their [[Mauser Model 1889|M1889 rifles]] and a lost legal battle with [[Mauser]] over the rights to produce improved [[Mauser Model 1893|M1893s]].<ref name=":02">{{cite book |last=Vanderlinden |first=Anthony |url=https://www.fnbrowning.com/fn-mauser-rifles |title=FN Mauser Rifles - Arming Belgium and the World |date=2016 |publisher=Wet Dog Publications |isbn=978-0-9981397-0-8 |pages=30–31}}</ref> In 1896, most of their primary shareholders left and a major competitor, [[Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken|DWM]], [[Takeover|took over]] a controlling stake, excluding the company from the export market for military firearms and forcing it to diversify into sporting firearms, their parts, and even bicycles.<ref name=":02" />
[[File:Browning Bros. Armory receipt 1897.jpg|thumb|Receipt for $2,000 downpayment received by Browning brothers from FN in July 1897]]
However, documents from Browning's later legal dispute with [[Georg Luger]] tell a different story. In 1896-1897 Berg, who was acquainted with Browning due to their joint work on the Colt machine gun in 1893–1894, persuaded him in correspondence to visit Liège with his pistol designs, which he did in April 1897. FN managers were impressed by the design's reliability and simplicity (it's unclear from secondary sources if it was already in .32 or still in .38) which were uncommon in those early days of semi-automatic guns. Afterward, Berg and Browning traveled to Berlin and showed a locked-breech and a blowback pistol to [[Hugo Borchardt]] to obtain approval from DWM.<ref name=":6" />

Berg presented a draft of the license agreement to the FN board in June 1897<ref name=":32" /> and then traveled to Hartford to finalize it with John and Matt Brownings in July 1897.<ref name=":6" /> The agreement granted FN the rights to manufacture and sell what became the M1899 in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Spain.<ref name=":6" /> In 1898 Berg was unsuccessful in attempting to persuade Browning to supervise the pistol's production in Belgium, but its manufacture by FN transformed the fortunes of that company and laid the foundation for its long-term relationship with Browning (who died on FN's premises in 1924).<ref name=":7">Browning and Gentry, p. 183.</ref>

{{Multiple image
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| image1            = Browning blowback-operated pocket pistol protoype.jpg
| caption1          = Browning's .32 blowback pistol prototype
| image2            = Browning 1900 .32 330049 L DSC 3314 noBG.jpg
| caption2          = Serial Browning 1900 pistol produced ca. 1909
}}

=== Production ===
Serial production started in January 1899, but the M1899 nomenclature postdates it. FN originally called M1899 "modele de présérie",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nouvelle page 0 |url=https://littlegun.be/arme%20belge/fn/a%20a%20fn%20gb.htm |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=littlegun.be}}</ref> approximately 14,400 of them were made in total.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Comparing the 1899 and 1900 Browning |url=https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/1899FNB/1899fnb.html |access-date=2024-09-02 |website=unblinkingeye.com}}</ref>

In 1900, driven by feedback from the Belgian military, FN introduced what was later called M1900, an improved design based on the M1899. These designations were applied retroactively after FN began manufacture of other Browning pistol designs; initially the M1900 was marketed as simply the "''Pistolet'' Browning" (Browning Pistol).

A shorter barrel reduced the overall length by less than a millimeter while maintaining the same caliber and magazine capacity. The grip plates were made 1&nbsp;mm wider, offering a more comfortable and secure hold for shooters with larger hands.<ref name=":8" />

In addition to these external changes, M1900 incorporated several internal improvements. The reinforced area of the frame above the trigger guard was enlarged and thickened, enhancing the pistol's durability (cf. the image comparison above). The diameter of the breech block screws was increased, further strengthening the action. A cocking indicator, visible as an extension of the internal cocking lever, was added, providing a visual confirmation of the pistol's cocked status. Finally, M1900 introduced a slide lock, activated by turning the safety lever upward when the slide was retracted in order to facilitate easier cleaning and maintenance.<ref name=":8" />

Production ceased only 11 years later, with a total of about 725,000 units having been produced by FN only (excluding all the numerous copies).

=== Usage ===
[[File:Browning_1900_.32_330049_R_DSC_3317.JPG|thumb|The same pistol shown from the other side]]

[[United States President]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] owned a mother of pearl-gripped Modele 1899, which he regularly kept on his person and in his bedside drawer. It now resides in the NRA Firearms Museum.<ref name="SupicaWicklund2012">{{cite book|author1=Jim Supica|author2=Doug Wicklund|author3=Philip Schreier|title=The Illustrated History of Firearms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QDZMAEACAAJ|year=2012|publisher=BOOKSALES Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7858-2989-8|page=88}}</ref>

[[Eugen Schauman]], a Finnish nationalist activist, [[assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov|assassinated]] the Governor-General [[Nikolay Bobrikov]] (the highest Russian authority in the [[Grand Duchy of Finland]]) with a Browning pistol in [[Helsinki]] on June 16, 1904. The act was followed by spontaneous anti-Russian celebrations in the streets of Helsinki and after the [[Finnish Declaration of Independence|1917 independence]] Schauman was considered to be a national hero of Finland.<ref>{{cite book|last = Zetterberg| first = Seppo| title = Viisi laukausta senaatissa – Eugen Schaumanin elämä ja teko | publisher = Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava| year = 1988| isbn =951-1-09266-9| pages =246–247, 268, 281}}</ref>

[[An Jung-geun]],  a Korean-independence activist, assassinated the 1st Prime Minister of Japan and Resident-General of Korea [[Itō Hirobumi]] with this type of gun on October 26, 1909, in [[Harbin railway station]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lee|first=Sung Joo|title=안중근, 사라진 총의 비밀 : 이토 히로부미를 저격하고 빼앗긴 M1900을 찾아서|publisher=청림출판|year=2019|isbn=9791155401569|editor-last=우라웍스}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Lee|first=Jeong Hyun|date=October 24, 2019|title=안중근은 이토 히로부미를 어떻게 완벽히 저격했나|url=https://m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20191024122800005|url-status=live|access-date=July 10, 2021|website=[[YTN]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128090011/https://m.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20191024122800005|archive-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref>

Socialist revolutionary [[Fanny Kaplan]] also used a FN M1900 in her attempted assassination of Lenin on August 30, 1918.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pistols+in+the+land+of+ten+thousand+guns%3A+China+was+awash+in+firearms...-a0405924095|title=Pistols in the land of ten thousand guns: China was awash in firearms of all kinds in the 1920s and '30s, but these six pistols were coveted above all others as Communists, Nationalists and warlords squared off.|last=Vlander|first=John|publisher=Shotgun News|date=March 20, 2015|quote=A mainstream Soviet movie from the 1940s, once famous in China, called Lenin in 1918 shows Lenin's bodyguard Wassily using an FN 1900. Also interestingly, in the same movie, the female agent from the Kerensky government named Fanny Kaplan tried to kill Lenin using the same pistol|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216173345/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Pistols+in+the+land+of+ten+thousand+guns%3a+China+was+awash+in+firearms...-a0405924095|archive-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>

[[Abelardo Mendoza Leyva]], a militant of the Peruvian left-wing [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|APRA]] party, is also reported to have used an FN1900 to assassinate [[President of Peru|President]] [[Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro]] in [[Lima]], on April 30, 1933.<ref>{{cite book|date=1993|location=Lima, Perú|page=254|publisher=Milla Batres|title=Compendio histórico del Perú. La República (siglo XX)|volume=VI}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>

The pistol was popular in China from its introduction through  [[World War II]] and was often copied and used as the basis for other designs.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-10-03|title=Browning 1900|url=https://www.forgottenweapons.com/chinese-oddball-pistols/browning-1900/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Forgotten Weapons|language=en-US|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710202815/https://www.forgottenweapons.com/chinese-oddball-pistols/browning-1900/|archive-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref> State-run arsenals produced serialized production runs for warlord militias, and local craftsmen produced one-off handmade versions.<ref>{{cite book|last=McCollum|first=Ian|author-link=Forgotten Weapons|title=Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese Domestic Handguns, 1911 - 1949|chapter=FN 1900 Copies|pages=334–461|isbn=9781733424639|date=2021|publisher=Headstamp Publishing}}</ref>

[[File:LA2-Blitz-0150 Browning-Selbstladepistole.jpg|thumb|right|Cutaway view]]
The {{ill|North Korean Type 64 pistol|ja|64式拳銃}} is closely based on M1900 although with modifications to fire [[7.62×17mm Type 64]].<ref name=Mitzer26>{{cite book |last=Mitzer |first=Stijn |last2=Oliemans |first2=Joost |title=The Armed Forces of North Korea: On the Path of Songun |publisher=Helion & Company |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-910777-14-5 |page=26}}</ref>  Specimens examined by western authorities were marked with the date of 1964.  A [[Suppressor|silenced]] variant was produced that featured a shortened slide to allow the threaded barrel to protrude far enough to attach the silencer.<ref name=jane1975>{{cite book|last = Hobart| first = Frank| title = Jane's Infantry Weapons: 1975 (First Year of Issue)| publisher = Jane's Information Group| year = 1974| isbn =0-3540-0516-2| page=37|url=https://archive.org/details/janesinfantrywea0000unse_o0m0/page/36/mode/2up?q=north+korean}}</ref>
[[File:Diatype64.jpg|thumb|220x220px|North Korean Type 64 pistol]]

==Ammunition==
The weapon is chambered for [[.32 ACP]], also known as 7.65×17mm Browning SR ("SR" denotes semi-rimmed).

== Users ==

* {{flag|Austria-Hungary}}<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Association |first=National Rifle |title=An Official Journal Of The NRA {{!}} This Old Gun: FN Browning Model 1900 |url=https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/this-old-gun-fn-browning-model-1900/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=An Official Journal Of The NRA |language=en}}</ref>
* {{flag|Austria}}-  Used by the [[First Austrian Republic]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Urrisk |first=Rolf M. |title=Die Bewaffnung des österreichischen Bundesheeres, 1918-1990 |date=1990 |publisher=H. Weishaupt Verlag |isbn=978-3-900310-53-0 |edition=1. Aufl |location=Graz}}</ref>
* {{flag|Belgium}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=The military and police handgun cartridges of Belgium: from 9.4mm to 5.7mm. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+military+and+police+handgun+cartridges+of+Belgium:+from+9.4mm+to...-a0274791465 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216173344/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+military+and+police+handgun+cartridges+of+Belgium%3a+from+9.4mm+to...-a0274791465|archive-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>
* {{flag|Brazil}} - Bought by the [[Federal District of Brazil (1891–1960)|Federal District]] police<ref>{{Cite web |title=Military and police handgun cartridges of Brazil. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Military+and+police+handgun+cartridges+of+Brazil.-a0248661694 |access-date=2022-12-17 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221217122245/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Military+and+police+handgun+cartridges+of+Brazil.-a0248661694|archive-date=December 17, 2022}}</ref>
* {{flag|China|1912}}<ref>Ian McCollum (2021) ''Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese Domestic Handguns, 1911 - 1949'', Chapter 1: Domestic Chinese Designs, pp. 30-39</ref> 
* {{flag|Denmark}}- Used by police.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvPEVI9vneU |title=History of WWI Primer 013*: Belgian FN 1900 Pistol Documentary {{!}} C&Rsenal |date=2024-09-17 |last=C&Rsenal |access-date=2024-09-20 |via=YouTube}}</ref> 
* {{flag|Finland}} - First acquired by police before 1917, in total up to a thousand were bought. The pistol was very popular in the civilian market and among early Finnish nationalist movement ''Voimaliitto.''  Also used by the State Railways and the Bank of Finland.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: REVOLVERS & PISTOLS PART 4 |url=https://www.jaegerplatoon.net/PISTOLS4.htm |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=www.jaegerplatoon.net|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405233951/http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/PISTOLS4.htm|archive-date=April 5, 2023}}</ref> 
* {{flag|France}} -  200 issued to officers of the criminal brigade in June 1912<ref>{{Cite web |title=Polices : armes de service. Quelques repères historiques |url=https://www.ihemi.fr/articles/polices-armes-de-service-quelques-reperes-historiques |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=IHEMI |language=fr}}</ref> Used by trench raiders during WW1<ref>{{Citation |title=Small Arms of WWI Primer 004*: Ruby 1915 | date=8 August 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoVTOudSC98 |access-date=2023-11-17 |language=en}}</ref> 
* {{flag|German Empire}} - Privately purchased by military officers.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Pistols of the Schutztruppe and Overseas Forces |url=http://www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk/militaria/pistols.htm |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk}}</ref> Bought by police agencies.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oddball German 7.65mm pistols of WWI and WWII: Taschenpistolen/Behelfspistolen im militarischen dienst: Part 1. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Oddball+German+7.65mm+pistols+of+WWI+and+WWII:...-a0444913560 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216173345/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Oddball+German+7.65mm+pistols+of+WWI+and+WWII%3a...-a0444913560|archive-date=December 16, 2022}}</ref>
* {{flag|Kingdom of Greece}}<ref name=":3" />
* {{flag|North Korea}}<ref name=jane1975/>
* {{flag|Norway}} - 114 were seized from surrendering German troops in 1945; issued to police forces between 1950 and 1960<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Citation |title=Small Arms Primer 186: Norwegian 1914 | date=17 October 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZ_kNN-7A8 |access-date=2023-11-26 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-16 |title=Norwegian POLITI Pistols – Collectible or Defaced? |url=https://www.rjkventures.com/blogs/guns/norwegian-politi-pistols-collectible-or-defaced |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=RJK Ventures LLC |language=en}}</ref>
* {{flag|Paraguay}} - Popular sidearm with officers<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=La guerra del Chaco: the bloodiest Latin American war of the 20th century: Part I. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/La+guerra+del+Chaco:+the+bloodiest+Latin+American+war+of+the+20th...-a0371284356 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225055004/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/La+guerra+del+Chaco%3a+the+bloodiest+Latin+American+war+of+the+20th...-a0371284356|archive-date=December 25, 2022}}</ref>
* {{flag|Russia|name=Russian Empire}} - Authorized as a sidearm for officers in 1907. Bought by police forces<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian/Soviet: military handguns part 1 from Lefaucheux to Luger. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Russian/Soviet:+military+handguns+part+1+from+Lefaucheux+to+Luger.-a0323975952 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612231607/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Russian/Soviet:+military+handguns+part+1+from+Lefaucheux+to+Luger.-a0323975952|archive-date=June 12, 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Citation |title=Small Arms of WWI Primer 185: Foreign 1911s | date=3 October 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYmsNoPwNM |access-date=2024-01-22 |language=en}}</ref>

== Conflicts ==
[[Herero Wars]]<ref name=":5" />

[[Mexican Revolution]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guns of the Mexican revolution: revolutions devour their own, and nowhere was that more true than in Mexico. Being a leader tended to be very bad for your health. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Guns+of+the+Mexican+revolution:+revolutions+devour+their+own,+and...-a0240623175 |access-date=2022-12-23 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224010306/https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Guns+of+the+Mexican+revolution%3a+revolutions+devour+their+own%2c+and...-a0240623175|archive-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jowett |first=Philip S. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881164009 |title=The Mexican Revolution, 1910-20. |date=2006 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |others=A. M. De Quesada, Stephen Walsh |isbn=978-1-4728-0718-2 |location=Oxford |oclc=881164009}}</ref>

[[Balkan Wars]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jowett |first=Philip |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/842879929 |title=Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912-13 : the priming charge for the Great War. |date=2012 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-299-58155-5 |oclc=842879929}}</ref>

[[World War I]]<ref name=":4">{{Citation |title=Small Arms of WWI Primer 013: Belgian FN Model 1900 Pistol | date=24 November 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rY6by5bqU |language=en|access-date=2022-12-16|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230612232231/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28rY6by5bqU&themeRefresh=1|archive-date=June 12, 2023}}</ref>

[[Russian Civil War]]<ref name=":0" />

[[Finnish Civil War]]<ref name=":2" />

[[Warlord Era]]<ref>Ian McCollum (2021) ''Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese Domestic Handguns, 1911 - 1949'', Chapter 1: Domestic Chinese Designs, pp. 82-111</ref>

[[Constitutionalist Revolution]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-25 |title=O Museu de Polícia Militar de São Paulo |url=https://armasonline.org/armas-on-line/o-museu-da-pm-de-sao-paulo/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Armas On-Line |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

[[Chaco War]]<ref name=":1" />

[[Chinese Civil War]]<ref name=":0" />

[[Spanish Civil War]]

[[World War II]]

==Synonyms==
This model is known by several names, including:
*FN M1900
*FN Mle.1900
*Browning M1900
*Browning No.1

==See also==
*[[Colt M1900]]
*[[FN Model 1903]]

===Underbarrel pistols===
*[[Bayard 1908]]
*[[Dreyse M1907]]
*[[Jieffeco Model 1911]]
*[[Laugo Alien]]
*[[Langenhan pistol]]
*[[Semmerling LM4|Semmerling XLM]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://hlebooks.com/pinterest/fn1900.jpg FN 1900 pistol (Infographic tech. drawing)]

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