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| 1st Flight Bleriot, Louis |  |
| English Channel Flies across the Channel in 36 minutes, from Calais to Dover Castle
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| Abdication Abdulhamid II |  |
| Forced to abdicate by the Young Turks
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| Armament Asquith, Henry Herbert |  |
| Agrees to the construction of 4 new battleships
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| Arrest Mussolini, Benito Amilicare Andrea |  |
| Arrested in Austria
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| Arrest Bukharin, Nikolai |  |
| Placed under arrest
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| Assassination Ito |  |
| 26th Oct Tokyo Assassinated by a Korean Nationalist
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| Assistant Director Maude, Frederick Stanley | |
| Appointed Assisstant Director of the Territorial Forces
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| Attack Churchill Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 14th Nov Bristol Theresa Grant, a suffragette, attacks Winston Churchill at Bristol railway station
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| Attack Churchill Grant, Theresa | |
| 14th Nov Bristol Theresa Grant, a suffragette, attacks Winston Churchill at Bristol railway station
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| Birth Poher, Alain | |
| 17th April Paris Birth of Alain Poher
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| Birth Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 11th July Birth of Diana Churchill, daughter of Winston & Clemantine Churchill
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| Birth Gromyko, Andrei Andreyevich | |
| Birth of Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko
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| Birth Kazan, Elia | |
| Birth of Elia Kazan
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| Budget Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| 30th Nov London The Lords reject the Budget by 350 votes to 75
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| Budget Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Lancashire Defends free trade & attacks the Lords for rejecting the Finance Bill
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| 6th Sep Leicester Speaks against the Lord's rejection of the Budget, refers to dangers of class warfare
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| Budget Lloyd George, David | |
| London Raises taxes on upper incomes & large Estates
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| 30th Nov London The Lords reject the Budget by 350 votes to 75
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| Canonization Joan of Arc | |
| 18th April Vatican Joan of Arc is beatified at a Vatican ceremony
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| Capture Gouraud, Henri | |
| Mauritania Completes the capture of Mauritania on behalf of France
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| Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, Theobold von |  |
| 14th July Berlin Appointed Imperial Chancellor of Germany
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| Commander Holtzendorf | |
| Appointed Commander of the High Seas Fleet
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| Composition Noskowski, Zygmunt |  |
| Composes, "The Quarrel About the Boundary Wall"
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| Composition Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich | |
| Composes, "Piano Concerto No 3"
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| Composes, "The Island of Death"
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| Composition Stravinsky, Igor | |
| Commissioned to write, "The Firebird"
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| Constitution Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| 2nd Aug London Parliament enters the Summer recess without agreement between parties
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| 2nd Aug London The main cause of difference beteen the parties is Irish home rule
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| Constitution Balfour, Arthur James | |
| London The Government introduces the Parliament Bill to curb the power of the Lords
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| 16th July Declares giving equal rights to blacks in Sth Africa will threaten white civilization
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| 27th July The SouthAfrica Union Bill has its 2nd reading but MP's
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| 7th Dec A Royal Proclamation creates the self-governing body of Sth Africa
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| Coup d'Etat Constantine I |  |
| The Military League a group of Greek officers takes action against the Government to reform their country's national Government and reorganize the army
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| Coup d'Etat Venizelos, Eleftherios | |
| The Military League league finds itself unable to create a new political system, till the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser
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| Coup d'Etat Ataturk, Maustafa Kemal | |
| Istanbul Take part in Mahmud Pasha's march on Istanbul to depose Sultan Abdul-Hamid II
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| Take part in Mahmud Pasha's march on Istanbul to depose Sultan Abdul-Hamid II
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| Death Badeni, Kasimierz Felix Graf von |  |
| Death of Kasimierz Felix Graf von Badeni
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| Death Chidong, Chang |  |
| 2nd Jan Death of Chang Chidong
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| 2nd Jan Death of Shihkai & Chidong, power is passed to the Manchus
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| Death Shihkai, Yuan | |
| 2nd Jan Death of Shihkai & Chidong, power is passed to the Manchus
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| Death Ito | |
| 26th Oct Tokyo Assassinated by a Korean Nationalist
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| Death Noskowski, Zygmunt | |
| Death of Zygmunt Noskowski
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| Declaration of Civil War Davila, Miguel |  |
| Dec Leads the civil war against President Bonila
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| Deputy Mayor Adenauer, Konrad | |
| Cologne Appointed Deputy Mayor of Cologne
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| Diplomacy Bethmann Hollweg, Theobold von | |
| Persues a policy of detente with Britain, hoping to come to some agreement that would put a halt to the two countries' ruinous naval arms race, but failed, largely due to the opposition of German Naval Minister Alfred von Tirpitz
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| 8th Feb Berlin France & Germany agree to support the independence of Morocco
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| Diplomacy Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 15th Sep A guest at military manoevres in Germany
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| 15th Sep Shakes hands with the Kaiser
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| Diplomacy Pasic, Nicola |  |
| 31st Mar Bosnia Serbia promises to curb anti-Austrian activities
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| Discovery of Bakelite Baekeland, Leo Hendrik |  |
| Baekeland patents bakelite
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| Discovery of North Pole Amundsen, Roald |  |
| North Pole Wants to be the 1st to reach the Nth Pole but Peary & Henson beet him
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| Discovery of North Pole Peary, Robert |  |
| 6th April North Pole Becomes the 1st person to reach the North Pole
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| Discovery of Pole Shackleton, Ernest Henry | |
| 4th Jan South Pole Writes, "The end is in sight...we are weakening rapidly"
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| 9th Jan Edward VII Plat Names the area where they stop as King Edward VII Plateau
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| 9th Jan South Pole Names the area where they stop as King Edward VII Plateau
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| 9th Jan South Pole Shackleton stops at 88 degrees 23'S, 111 miles short of the Sth Pole
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| 16th Jan South Pole Reaches the South Magnetic Pole
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| 1st Mar Cape Royds The Nimrod spots Shackleton from Cape Royds & pick him up
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| 23rd Mar South Pole Arrives in NewZealand having led an expedition to within 111 miles of the Sth Pole
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| Discovery of Pole Amundsen, Roald | |
| South Pole Decides to be the 1st to the Sth Pole after being beaten to the Nth Pole
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| Dismissal Heinrich | |
| Dismissed for opposing the naval policies of Heinrich
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| Editor Mussolini, Benito Amilicare Andrea | |
| Appointed Sub-Editor of The Popolo, owned by the Italian patriot Cesare Battisti
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| Trentino Appointed Editor of L'Avvenire del Lavoratore
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| Education Tse-Tung, Mao | |
| Hsiangtan Mao enrols at Hsiangtan School
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| Education Gaulle, Charles Andre Marie Joseph de | |
| Pases the entrance examination to St Cyr
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| Education George VI | |
| Osbourne Enters the Royal Naval College
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| Education Patton, George Smith | |
| 11th June West Point Graduates from the USA Military Academy at West Point
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| Election Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| The rallying cry is, "The Peers versus the People"
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| Executive Council Sinha |  |
| Appointed Member of the Executive Council
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| Exile Constantine I | |
| Forced into exile by army officers
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| Exile Mussolini, Benito Amilicare Andrea | |
| Expeeled from Austria
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| General Bakelite Corp Baekeland, Leo Hendrik | |
| Founds the General Bakelite Corp
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| Grand Admiral Heinrich | |
| Appointedrand Admiral
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| Head of State Albert I | |
| Appointed Head of State, Constitutional ruler of Belgium after the death of Leopold II
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| IGS Haldane, Robert Anthony | |
| Creates the Imperial General staff
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| Inauguration Gomez, Jose Miguel |  |
| 27th Jan Havana Sworn in as President of Cuba
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| Independence Malinov, Alexander |  |
| 19th April Bucharest Turkey recognizes Bulgarian independence
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| 27th April Bucharest The Triple Alliance recognizes the independence of Bulgaria
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| Independence Bethmann Hollweg, Theobold von | |
| 8th Feb Berlin France & Germany agree to support the independence of Morocco
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| Independence Balfour, Arthur James | |
| 7th Dec A Royal Proclamation creates the self-governing body of Sth Africa
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| Independence Taft, William Howard | |
| 9th Jan Washington Colombia signs a convention with the USA recognizing Panama
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| Inspector General Heinrich | |
| Appointed Inspector General to the Navy
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| Invasion of Persia Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| 26th Mar Russian troops invade northern Persia & occupy Tabriz
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| Knighthood Shackleton, Ernest Henry | |
| London Recieves a hroes welcome & a knighthood
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| Labour Exchanges Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Lays plans for the foundation of 200 Labour Exchanges
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| Strasburg Visits the Labour Bureaux in Strasburg & Frankfurt am Main
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| 1st Feb Visits the 1st 17 Labour Exchanges, all of which open this day
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| Legislation Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Establishes the principle of a minimum wage & breaks for meals & refreshment
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| Gets the Labour Exchanges Bill passed
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| Gets the Trade Boards Bill passed
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| Helps eliminate sweated labour
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| 28th April Churchill's Bill has its 2nd reading in the House of Commons
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| 19th May Introduces the Labour Exchanges Bill to the House of Commons
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| Major Byng | |
| London Appointed Major General
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| Military League Constantine I | |
| The Military League a group of Greek officers takes action against the Government to reform their country's national Government and reorganize the army
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| Military League Venizelos, Eleftherios | |
| Athens The Military League league finds itself unable to create a new political system, till the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser
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| Minister Munch, Peter Rochegune |  |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior
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| Minister Zahle, Carl Theodor | |
| Appointed Minister of Justice, 1st term
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| Minister Barthou, Louis | |
| Appointed Minister of Public Works, 3rd term
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| Minister Bruck, Clemens von de | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior
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| Minister Sukhomlinov, Vladimir | |
| Appointed Minister of War
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| Minto Morley Reforms Banerjea, Surendranath | |
| Banerjea supports the Minto-Morley reforms, resented and ridiculed as insufficient and meaningless by the vast majority of the Indian public and nationalist politicians
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| Mobilization Holtzendorf | |
| Opposes expansion by Tirpitz & concentration of naval forces in the Nth Sea
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| Nobel Prize Lagerlof, Selma |  |
| Winner of the |
