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| 1st Circumnavigation Slocum, Joshua |  |
| 24th April Boston Begins the 1st single handed yacht voyage around the world |
| Arrest Wilde, Oscar |  |
| 25th Mar Reading Sentenced to 2 yrs hard Labour for homosexuality |
| Arrest Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| 20th Dec St Petersburg Arrested with Martov by the Okhrana for publishing propaganda |
| 20th Dec St Petersburg Sent to St Petersburg for 2 years |
| Birth Darre, Richard Walther |  |
| Buenos Aires Birth of Richard Walther Darre |
| Birth Peron, Juan Domingo | |
| Birth of Juan Domingo Peron |
| Birth Fadden, Arthur William |  |
| 13th April Ingham Birth of Arthur William Fadden |
| Birth George VI | |
| 14th Dec Sandringham Birth of George VI, 2nd son of George V |
| Birth Mitchell, Reginald Joseph | |
| 20th May Birth of Reginal Joseph Mitchell |
| Birth Thuku, Harry |  |
| Birth of Harry Thuku |
| Birth Cardenas, Lazaro |  |
| Birth of Lazaro Cardenas |
| Birth Vasilevsky, Aleksander Mikhailovich | |
| Birth of Aleksander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky |
| Birth Yezhkov, Nikolay Ivanovich | |
| Birth of Nikolay Ivanovich Yezhov |
| Birth Ford, John |  |
| 1st Feb Birth of John Ford |
| Capture of Qingdao Kuang Hsu |  |
| Qingdao The Germans capture the Qingdao peninsula |
| Chancellor Hicks Beach | |
| London Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2nd term |
| Civil Lord of the Admiralty Chamberlain, Austen | |
| Appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty |
| Composition Holst, Gustav Theodore | |
| London Composes, "The Revoke" |
| Death Dumas, Alexander |  |
| 27th Nov Death of Alexander Dumas |
| Death Churchill, Randolph | |
| 24th Jan London Death of Randolph Henry Spencer Churchil, from a brain disease |
| Death Spencer-Churchill, Randolph Henry | |
| 24th Jan London Death of Randolph Henry Spencer Churchil, from a brain disease |
| Death Anthes, Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d' | |
| Death of Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d' Anthes |
| Diplomacy Abd al-Rahman |  |
| Afghanistan's northern border is fixed and guaranteed by Russia |
| Diplomacy Alexander III | |
| Afghanistan's northern border was fixed and guaranteed by Russia |
| Diplomacy Cleveland, Grover | |
| 12th June Washington Calls for citizens not to aid Cuban insurgents who are rising up against Spanish rule |
| Discovery of Argon Strutt | |
| Discovers the element argon |
| Discovery of Curie Point Curie, Pierre | |
| Discovers substances at a specific temperature will lose ferromagnetic properties |
| Discovery of North Pole Nansen, Fridtjof |  |
| North Pole Heads an expedition & reaches 86 degrees 14 minutes, highest latitude reached |
| Election Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot | |
| 10th Aug Conservatives 340, Liberal Unionists 71, Liberals 177 & Irish Party 82 |
| Exile of Yat Sen Yat-Sen, Sun | |
| Forced into exile, 1895-1911 |
| First Lord of the Treasury Balfour, Arthur James | |
| London Appointed First Lord of the Treasury, a post usually held by a Prime Minister |
| First Sea Lord Goschen | |
| London Appointed First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, 2nd term |
| Independence Mutsuhito |  |
| Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki Korea is granted its independence |
| Invention Projector Skladanowsky, Emil |  |
| 1st Nov Berlin Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil demonstrate their self-invented film projector the Bioskop at the Wintergarten music hall |
| Invention Projector Skladanowsky, Max | |
| 1st Nov Berlin Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil demonstrate their self-invented film projector the Bioskop at the Wintergarten music hall |
| Legal Adviser Smuts Smuts, Jan Christian |  |
| Appointed Personal Legal Advisor to Rhodes |
| Lord Chancellor Gibson, Edward | |
| Appointed Lord Chancellor for Ireland, 3rd term |
| Lord Chancellor Giffard, Hardinge Stanley | |
| Appointed Lord Chancellor, 3rd term |
| Minister of Public Works Barthou, Louis | |
| Appointed Minister of Public Works, 1st term |
| Minister of War Campbell-Bannerman, Henry | |
| Appointed War Minister, 3rd term |
| Minister of War Lansdowne | |
| Appointed Minister of War |
| Minister President Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von |  |
| Appointed Minister President of Austria |
| Party Leader Ito | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Liberal Party |
| Paymaster General Hope | |
| London Appointed Paymaster General |
| Petersburg Union Martov, Yuly Osipovich | |
| St Petersburg Founds the St Petersburg Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class |
| President Delgado, Eloy Alfaro |  |
| Appointed President of Ecuador, 1st term |
| President Cavendish, Spencer | |
| Appointed President of the Council, 1st term |
| President Faure, Francois-Felix |  |
| Appointed President of Italy, its 7th President |
| President Gibbs, Oliver Wolcott | |
| Appointed President of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Prime Minister Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Austria, the Austrian half of the dual monarchy |
| Prime Minister Novakovic, Stojan |  |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Serbia, 1st term |
| Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo, Antonio |  |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Spain, 5th term |
| Profession Smuts, Jan Christian | |
| June Cape Town Africa Returns to Sth Africa to practise law at Cape Town bar |
| Professor Dalberg | |
| London Appointed Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University |
| Publication Wells, Herbert George | |
| Publication of, "The Time Machine" |
| Publication Sienkiewicz, Henryk |  |
| Publication of, "Quo Vardis", set in Rome at the time of Nero |
| Queen's Own Hussars Churchill Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Commissioned in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars just after his father's death |
| Rebellion Yat-Sen, Sun | |
| Leads an abortive Nationalist rebellion in Canton |
| Resignation Primrose | |
| London Resigns after defeated in a debate on the stocks of cordite in Government depots |
| London Roseberry could have won a vote of confidence but finds Government a strain |
| Rule of Afghanistan Abd al-Rahman | |
| Afghanistan's northern border is fixed and guaranteed by Russia |
| Rule of Afghanistan Alexander III | |
| Afghanistan's northern border was fixed and guaranteed by Russia |
| Rule of Korea Kuang Hsu | |
| Japan defeats China and China is forced to cede Taiwan and recognize Japanese sovereignity over Korea |
| Rule of Taiwan Kuang Hsu | |
| Japan defeats China and China is forced to cede Taiwan and recognize Japanese sovereignity over Korea |
| Rule of Taiwan Mutsuhito | |
| Taiwan Inder the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Taiwans is ceded by China to Japan |
| Secretary of Colonies Chamberlain, Austen | |
| Appointed Colonial Secretary |
| Secretary of Colonies Chamberlain, Joseph | |
| 28th June Appointed Colonial Secretary at his own request & joins the Cabinet |
| St Petersburg Union Dan Dan, Fedor Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Member of the St Petersburg Union for the Emancipation of the Working Class |
| Trans Siberian Railway Witte | |
| China agrees the Trans -Siberian Railway can pass through Manchuria |
| Treaty of Shimonoseki Mutsuhito | |
| Shimonoseki Korea becomes independent, China pays Japan a large indemnity |
| Shimonoseki Taiwan is ceded to Japan & China opened to Japanese investment |
| Trial Dreyfus, Alfred | |
| 10th Jan Paris Subject to ritual degradation on the parade ground of the Military Academy |
| Under Secretary Curzon | |
| Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office |
| Venezuelan Boundary Commission Cleveland, Grover | |
| 21st Dec Washington At the request of the President Congress authorizes the Venezuelan Boundary Commission |
