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