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Explore November 23, 1892 – December 8, 1918

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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861 - 1895

Gilded Age 1870 - 1900

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914

Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15

Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom 1893-01-17

Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893-09-19

First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17

Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12

First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-01-13 - 1896-10-23

First Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26

Progressive era 1896 - 1916

Battle of Adwa 1896-03-01

1896 Summer Olympics 1896-04-06 - 1896-04-15

Plessy v. Ferguson 1896-05-18

Sinking of the USS Maine 1898-02-15

Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13

Battle of Manila Bay 1898-05-01 - 1898-05-01

Bombardment of San Juan 1898-05-12 - 1898-05-12

Battle of Guantánamo Bay 1898-06-06 - 1898-06-14

Capture of Guam 1898-06-20 - 1898-06-21

Battle of Las Guasimas 1898-06-24 - 1898-06-24

Battle of El Caney 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

Battle of Santiago de Cuba 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-03

Siege of Santiago 1898-07-03 - 1898-07-17

Puerto Rico campaign 1898-07-25 - 1898-08-13

Battle of Manila (1898) 1898-08-13 - 1898-08-13

Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22

Battle of Manila (1899) 1899-02-04 - 1899-02-05

Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02

Battle of Quingua 1899-04-23 - 1899-04-23

Hague Convention of 1899 1899-07-29

Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31

Siege of Mafeking 1899-10-13 - 1900-05-17

Siege of Kimberley 1899-10-14 - 1900-02-15

Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07

Siege of Ladysmith 1899-11-02 - 1900-02-28

Battle of Tirad Pass 1899-12-02 - 1899-12-02

Battle of Magersfontein 1899-12-11 - 1899-12-11

Second Battle of Colenso 1899-12-15 - 1899-12-15

Battle of Spion Kop 1900-01-23 - 1900-01-24

Battle of Paardeberg 1900-02-18 - 1900-02-27

Seymour Expedition 1900-06-10 - 1900-06-26

Battle of Diamond Hill 1900-06-11 - 1900-06-12

Battle of the Taku Forts (1900) 1900-06-16 - 1900-06-17

Siege of the International Legations 1900-06-20 - 1900-08-14

Battle of Tientsin 1900-07-13 - 1900-07-14

Battle of Peking (1900) 1900-08-14 - 1900-08-15

Battle of Bergendal 1900-08-21 - 1900-08-27

Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08

Federation of Australia 1901-01-01

Balangiga massacre 1901-09-28 - 1901-09-28

First flight of the Wright Flyer 1903-12-17

Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05

Battle of Port Arthur 1904-02-08 - 1904-02-09

Battle of the Yalu River 1904-04-30 - 1904-05-01

Battle of Nanshan 1904-05-24 - 1904-05-26

Battle of Te-li-ssu 1904-06-14 - 1904-06-15

Battle of Tashihchiao 1904-07-24 - 1904-07-25

Siege of Port Arthur 1904-08-01 - 1905-01-02

Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904-08-10 - 1904-08-10

Battle off Ulsan 1904-08-14 - 1904-08-14

Battle of Liaoyang 1904-08-25 - 1904-09-05

Battle of Shaho 1904-10-05 - 1904-10-17

Einstein's annus mirabilis papers 1905

Bloody Sunday 1905-01-22 - 1905-01-22

Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16

Battle of Sandepu 1905-01-25 - 1905-01-29

Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10

Battle of Tsushima 1905-05-27 - 1905-05-28

Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05

Partition of Bengal 1905-10-16 - 1911-12-12

1906 San Francisco earthquake 1906-04-18

Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01

Young Turk Revolution 1908-07-03 - 1908-07-24

Ford Model T 1908-10-01

South Africa Act 1909 1910-05-31

Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01

Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27

Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01

Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12

Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01

Sinking of the Titanic 1912-04-14 - 1912-04-15

First Balkan War 1912-10-08 - 1913-05-30

Battle of Kirk Kilisse 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-24

Battle of Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23

Battle of Kumanovo 1912-10-23 - 1912-10-24

Battle of Lule Burgas 1912-10-28 - 1912-11-02

Siege of Scutari (1912–1913) 1912-10-28 - 1913-04-23

Battle of Prilep 1912-11-03 - 1912-11-05

Siege of Adrianople (1912–1913) 1912-11-03 - 1913-03-26

Battle of Monastir 1912-11-16 - 1912-11-19

First Battle of Çatalca 1912-11-17 - 1912-11-18

Battle of Elli 1912-12-16 - 1912-12-16

Battle of Bizani 1913-03-04 - 1913-03-06

Second Balkan War 1913-06-29 - 1913-08-10

Battle of Bregalnica 1913-06-30 - 1913-07-09

Battle of Kilkis–Lachanas 1913-07-02 - 1913-07-04

Battle of Kresna Gorge 1913-07-21 - 1913-07-31

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28

July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06

Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24

World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11

East African campaign (World War I) 1914-08-03 - 1918-11-25

Battle of Liège 1914-08-05 - 1914-08-16

Battle of Lorraine 1914-08-14 - 1914-09-07

Opening of the Panama Canal 1914-08-15

Battle of Gumbinnen 1914-08-20 - 1914-08-20

Battle of the Ardennes 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Charleroi 1914-08-21 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Galicia 1914-08-23 - 1914-09-11

Battle of Mons 1914-08-23 - 1914-08-23

Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30

Battle of Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26

Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) 1914-08-28 - 1914-08-28

Battle of Guise 1914-08-29 - 1914-08-30

First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12

First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1914-09-07 - 1914-09-14

First Battle of the Aisne 1914-09-13 - 1914-09-28

Siege of Przemyśl 1914-09-16 - 1915-03-22

Siege of Antwerp (1914) 1914-09-28 - 1914-10-10

Battle of the Yser 1914-10-16 - 1914-10-31

First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22

Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05

Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30

Battle of Łódź (1914) 1914-11-11 - 1914-12-06

Battle of Sarikamish 1914-12-22 - 1915-01-17

Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) 1915-01-24 - 1915-01-24

Gallipoli campaign 1915-02-19 - 1916-01-09

Battle of Neuve Chapelle 1915-03-10 - 1915-03-13

Second Battle of Ypres 1915-04-22 - 1915-05-25

Armenian genocide 1915-04-24 - 1917

Landing at Anzac Cove 1915-04-25 - 1915-05-03

Landing at Cape Helles 1915-04-25 - 1915-04-26

Gorlice–Tarnów offensive 1915-05-02 - 1915-06-22

First Battle of the Isonzo 1915-06-23 - 1915-07-07

Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21

Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15

Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06

Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04

Macedonian front 1915-10-21 - 1918-09-30

Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 1915-11-25

General relativity 1915-11-25

Siege of Kut 1915-12-07 - 1916-04-29

National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14

Erzurum offensive 1916-01-10 - 1916-02-16

Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18

Lake Naroch offensive 1916-03-18 - 1916-04-14

Easter Rising 1916-04-24 - 1916-04-29

Battle of Asiago 1916-05-15 - 1916-06-10

Sykes–Picot Agreement 1916-05-16

Battle of Jutland 1916-05-31 - 1916-06-01

Brusilov Offensive 1916-06-04 - 1916-09-20

Arab Revolt 1916-06-10 - 1918-10-25

Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18

Battle of Erzincan 1916-07-02 - 1916-07-25

Battle of Romani 1916-08-03 - 1916-08-05

Battle of Gorizia (1916) 1916-08-06 - 1916-08-17

Battle of Bucharest 1916-11-25 - 1916-12-03

Assassination of Grigori Rasputin 1916-12-30 - 1916-12-30

Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16

February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16

First Battle of Gaza 1917-03-26 - 1917-03-26

Battle of Vimy Ridge 1917-04-09 - 1917-04-12

Battle of Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16

Nivelle offensive 1917-04-16 - 1917-05-09

Battle of Messines (1917) 1917-06-07 - 1917-06-14

Kerensky offensive 1917-07-01 - 1917-07-19

Battle of Aqaba 1917-07-06 - 1917-07-06

Battle of Passchendaele 1917-07-31 - 1917-11-10

Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917-08-18 - 1917-09-12

Riga offensive (1917) 1917-09-01 - 1917-09-03

Kornilov affair 1917-09-10 - 1917-09-13

Battle of Caporetto 1917-10-24 - 1917-11-19

Battle of Beersheba (1917) 1917-10-31 - 1917-10-31

Third Battle of Gaza 1917-11-01 - 1917-11-02

Balfour Declaration 1917-11-02 - 1917-11-02

Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16

October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08

Battle of Jerusalem (1917) 1917-11-17 - 1917-12-30

Battle of Cambrai (1917) 1917-11-20 - 1917-12-07

Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly 1918-01-19 - 1918-01-19

Representation of the People Act 1918 1918-02-06

Ice March 1918-02-22 - 1918-05-13

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918-03-03 - 1918-03-03

Spanish flu 1918-03-04 - 1920-04-30

Operation Michael 1918-03-21 - 1918-04-05

Battle of the Lys (1918) 1918-04-09 - 1918-04-29

Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion 1918-05-14 - 1918-09-10

Third Battle of the Aisne 1918-05-27 - 1918-06-06

Battle of Cantigny 1918-05-28 - 1918-05-28

Battle of Belleau Wood 1918-06-01 - 1918-06-26

Second Battle of the Piave River 1918-06-15 - 1918-06-23

Battle of Tsaritsyn 1918-07-01 - 1920-01-01

Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-08-06

Execution of the Romanov family 1918-07-17 - 1918-07-17

Battle of Amiens (1918) 1918-08-08 - 1918-08-12

Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-09-12 - 1918-09-15

Vardar offensive 1918-09-15 - 1918-09-29

Battle of Megiddo (1918) 1918-09-19 - 1918-09-25

Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11

Battle of the St Quentin Canal 1918-09-29 - 1918-10-02

Battle of Sharqat 1918-10-23 - 1918-10-30

Battle of Vittorio Veneto 1918-10-24 - 1918-11-03

German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11

Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18

Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11

People

Mao Zedong born 1893-12-26

Charles de Gaulle age 2

Otto von Bismarck age 77

Nikola Tesla age 36

Walt Disney born 1901-12-05

Louis Pasteur age 69

George Orwell born 1903-06-25

Ernest Hemingway born 1899-07-21

Henry Ford age 29

Benito Mussolini age 9

Jean-Paul Sartre born 1905-06-21

Friedrich Engels age 72

Mother Teresa born 1910-08-26

Harry S. Truman age 8

Jawaharlal Nehru age 3

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky age 52

Dwight D. Eisenhower age 2

Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09

Alan Turing born 1912-06-23

Rosa Luxemburg age 21

John Maynard Keynes age 9

Simone de Beauvoir born 1908-01-09

Niels Bohr age 7

Leon Trotsky age 13

Max Planck age 34

Dmitri Mendeleev age 58

Giuseppe Verdi age 79

Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27

Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14

Indira Gandhi born 1917-11-19

Enrico Fermi born 1901-09-29

Nikita Khrushchev born 1894-04-15

Herbert Hoover age 18

Alexander Graham Bell age 45

Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15

Kwame Nkrumah born 1909-09-21

Hirohito born 1901-04-29

Claude Monet age 52

Ho Chi Minh age 2

Florence Nightingale age 72

B. R. Ambedkar age 1

Eleanor Roosevelt age 8

Konrad Adenauer age 16

Georges Pompidou born 1911-07-05

Joseph Goebbels born 1897-10-29

Leonid Brezhnev born 1906-12-19

Rutherford B. Hayes age 70

Chiang Kai-shek age 5

Golda Meir born 1898-05-03

John XXIII age 11

Ferdinand Marcos born 1917-09-11

François Mitterrand born 1916-10-26

Alexander Fleming age 11

Francisco Franco born 1892-12-04

David Ben-Gurion age 6

Milton Friedman born 1912-07-31

Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24

Josip Broz Tito age 6 months

Guglielmo Marconi age 18

J. Robert Oppenheimer born 1904-04-22

Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15

Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04

Sukarno born 1901-06-06

John Paul I born 1912-10-17

Paul VI born 1897-09-26

Willy Brandt born 1913-12-18

Dag Hammarskjöld born 1905-07-29

Salvador Allende born 1908-06-26

Pius XII age 16

John von Neumann born 1903-12-28

George VI born 1895-12-14

Pius XI age 35

Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07

Neville Chamberlain age 23

Augusto Pinochet born 1915-11-25

Nicolae Ceaușescu born 1918-01-26

Haile Selassie age 4 months

Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15

Douglas MacArthur age 12

Erwin Rommel age 1

Carl Benz age 48

Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12

Rachel Carson born 1907-05-27

Grigori Rasputin age 23

Edward VIII born 1894-06-23

Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 15

Paul von Hindenburg age 45

Georgy Zhukov born 1896-12-01

Wernher von Braun born 1912-03-23

Clement Attlee age 9

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 28

Henry Dunant age 64

Harriet Tubman age 70

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell age 35

George C. Marshall age 11

Enver Hoxha born 1908-10-16

Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24

Empress Dowager Cixi age 57

Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05

Gavrilo Princip born 1894-07-25

Lord Kelvin age 68

Park Chung-hee born 1917-11-14

Vyacheslav Molotov age 2

Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12

Menachem Begin born 1913-08-16

Philippe Pétain age 36

Emiliano Zapata age 13

Erich Honecker born 1912-08-25

Francis Crick born 1916-06-08

Harold Macmillan born 1894-02-10

Cecil Rhodes age 39

Ibn Saud age 16

Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 227

Frederick Douglass age 74

Adolf Eichmann born 1906-03-19

James Callaghan born 1912-03-27

António de Oliveira Salazar age 3

Eva Braun born 1912-02-06

Juan Perón born 1895-10-08

T. E. Lawrence age 4

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon born 1900-08-04

Susan B. Anthony age 72

Aldo Moro born 1916-09-23

Léopold Sédar Senghor born 1906-10-09

Ludwig Erhard born 1897-02-04

Jomo Kenyatta born 1893-10-20

Sirimavo Bandaranaike born 1916-04-17

Joachim von Ribbentrop born 1893-04-30

Jonas Salk born 1914-10-28

Karl Dönitz age 1

Fulgencio Batista born 1901-01-16

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 25

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 4

Syngman Rhee age 17

U Thant born 1909-01-22

Rudolf Hess born 1894-04-26

George S. Patton age 7

Hideki Tojo age 7

İsmet İnönü age 8

Ahmed Ben Bella born 1916-12-25

Bernard Montgomery age 5

Gustav Stresemann age 14

Albert Speer born 1905-03-19

Võ Nguyên Giáp born 1911-08-25

Reza Shah age 14

Empress Elisabeth of Austria age 54

Rajendra Prasad age 7

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 17

Eisaku Satō born 1901-03-27

Georgy Malenkov born 1902-01-08

Getúlio Vargas age 10

Karl Liebknecht age 21

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud born 1906-01-01

Emmeline Pankhurst age 34

Sergei Korolev born 1907-01-12

Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07

Ferdinand Foch age 41

Edward Heath born 1916-07-09

Lavrentiy Beria born 1899-03-29

Lester B. Pearson born 1897-04-23

Habib Bourguiba born 1903-08-03

Felix Dzerzhinsky age 15

Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15

Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17

Hastings Banda age 2

Moshe Dayan born 1915-05-20

Pancho Villa age 14

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 77

Trygve Lie born 1896-07-16

Kurt Georg Kiesinger born 1904-04-06

Patrice de MacMahon age 84

Isabella II age 62

Franz von Papen age 13

Celâl Bayar age 9

Subhas Chandra Bose born 1897-01-23

Nestor Makhno age 4

Urho Kekkonen born 1900-09-03

Walter Ulbricht born 1893-06-30

Isoroku Yamamoto age 8

Wilhelm Keitel age 10

Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27

Charles G. Dawes age 27

Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08

Alec Douglas-Home born 1903-07-02

Alcide De Gasperi age 11

Cemal Gürsel born 1895-10-13

Léon Blum age 20

Robert Schuman age 6

Alfred Rosenberg born 1893-01-12

Georgi Dimitrov age 10

Imre Nagy born 1896-06-07

Andrei Gromyko born 1909-07-18

Erich Ludendorff age 27

Kliment Voroshilov age 11

Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09

Lal Bahadur Shastri born 1904-10-02

Kenan Evren born 1917-07-17

Isaac Shamir born 1915-10-22

Faisal I of Iraq age 7

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