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| Ambassador Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin |  |
| Berlin Appointed Ambassador to Rome
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| Ambassador Muravyov, Mikhail Nikolayevich |  |
| Copehagen Appointed Ambassador to Denmark
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| Copenhagen Appointed Ambassador to Denmark
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| Ambassador Pasic, Nicola |  |
| Belgrade Appointed Ambassador to Russia
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| Birth Tse-Tung, Mao |  |
| 26th Dec Shaoshan Birth of Mao Tse-Tung, Shaoshan in Hunan Province, year of the snake
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| Birth Goering, Herman | |
| 12th Jan Rosenheim Birth of Herman Goering, in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, the son of a colonial official
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| Birth Toller, Ernst | |
| 1st Dec Samotschin Birth of Ernst Toller
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| Birth Ulbricht, Walther | |
| 30th June Leipzig Born in Leipzig, the son of a tailor
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| Birth Novello, Ivor |  |
| 15th Jan Birth of Ivor Novello
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| Birth Alexander |  |
| Athens Birth of Alexander, 2nd son of Constantine & Sophia
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| Birth Carol II |  |
| Birth of Carol II, great nephew of Carol I
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| Birth Strijdom, Johennes Gerhardus |  |
| Willowmore Africa Birth of Johennes Gerhardus Strijdom
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| Birth Porter, Cole |  |
| 9th June Birth of Cole Porter
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| Collapse Government Steinbach, Emil |  |
| Vienna Causes the collapse of the Government
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| Colonel Rennenkampf, Paul Karlovitch | |
| Appointed General
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| Composition Verdi, Giuseppe |  |
| Composes, "Falstaff"
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| Death MacMahon, Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de |  |
| 17th Oct Paris Death of Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de MacMahon
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| Death Stanley, Edward Henry | |
| 21st April Death of Edward Henry Stanley
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| Death Tchaikovsky, Peter | |
| St Petersburg Death of Peter Tchaikovsky
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| Diplomacy Alexander III | |
| A military convention is agreed with France which becomes a formal defensive Alliance
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| Election Viviani, Rene | |
| Elected Deputy
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| Exile Alem, Leandro |  |
| Forced into exile
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| ILP Hardie, James Keir | |
| 13th Jan Founds & leads new Party
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| Independence Victoria | |
| London Gladstone's Home Rule Bill is defeated in the Lords
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| International Socialist Congress Engels, Friedrich | |
| Zurich Engels is elected honorary President of International Socialist Congress
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| Line of Durand Abd al-Rahman |  |
| The Durand Line divides British India & the Afghan kingdom
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| Marriage Albrecht of Wurtemberg | |
| Albrecht of Wurtemberg marries Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria
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| Marriage George V | |
| 6th July George V marries Mary of Teck
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| Marriage May of Teck | |
| 6th July George V marries May of Teck
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| Marriage Ferdinand I | |
| Marries Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh
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| Neue Zeit Kautsky, Karl | |
| Founds Neue Zeit
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| Peerage Greville | |
| Warwick Created Earl of Warwick
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| President Cleveland, Grover | |
| 8th Nov Appointed President of the USA, 24th President
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| Prime Minister Crispi, Francesco | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of Italy, 2nd term
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| Publication Doyle, Arthur Conan | |
| Publication of, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
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| Publication Kipling, Rudyard | |
| Publication of, "Barrack Room Ballads"
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| Publication Wilde, Oscar | |
| Publication of, "Lady Windermere's Fan"
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| Publication Twain, Mark | |
| Publication of, "The American Claimant"
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| Rebellion Abd al-Rahman | |
| The Pastuns rebel after being placed under British rule
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| Reform Gladstone, William Ewart | |
| 2nd Sep London Irish Home Rule Bill, approved by the House of Commons
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| 9th Sep London Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the House of Lords
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| Reform Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand |  |
| Leads a non-violent movement against racially discriminating laws
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| RSDRP Lenin Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| St Petersburg Joins an underground Social Democratic circle called "the elders" in St Petersburg
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| Shaftesbury Memorial Ashley-Cooper, Anthony | |
| The Shaftesbury Memorial is erected in Piccadilly Circus, London
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| Socialist Party Jaures, Jean | |
| Appointed Member of the Socialist Party
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| Succession Alfred | |
| 22nd Aug Succeeds as Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
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| Succession Alexander I | |
| Belgrade Succeeds as King of Serbia
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| Treaty of Wachile Menelik II |  |
| Wachile Abrogates the Treaty after Italy's attempts to subjugate Ethiopia
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| Vice President Stevenson, Adlai E | |
| 8th Nov Washington Appointed Vice President of the USA
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