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Explore July 12, 1905 – January 18, 1919

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Events

Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914
Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885-02-26 - 1908-11-15
Dreyfus affair 1894-10-15 - 1906-07-12
Progressive era 1896 - 1916
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Russian Revolution of 1905 1905-01-22 - 1907-06-16
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
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
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
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1914-06-28
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
Serbian campaign of World War I 1914-07-28 - 1915-11-24
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 Le Cateau 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-26
Battle of Tannenberg 1914-08-26 - 1914-08-30
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
Caucasus campaign 1914-11-02 - 1918-10-30
Battle of Tanga 1914-11-02 - 1914-11-05
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
Landing at Suvla Bay 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-15
Battle of Sari Bair 1915-08-06 - 1915-08-21
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
February Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1917-03-16
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
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
October Revolution 1917-11-07 - 1917-11-08
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
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
Biennio Rosso 1919 - 1920

People

Theodore Roosevelt age 46
President - United States
Woodrow Wilson age 48
President - United States
Sun Yat-sen age 38
Provisional President - Republic of China
William Howard Taft age 47
President - United States
Nicholas II of Russia age 37
Emperor - Russian Empire
Wilhelm II age 46
Emperor - German Empire
George V age 40
King - United Kingdom
Edward VII age 63
King - United Kingdom
Abdul Hamid II age 62
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 74
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Leopold II of Belgium age 70
King - Belgium
Emperor Meiji age 52
Emperor - Japan
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Emperor - Imperial China
Mehmed VI age 44
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Porfirio Díaz age 74
President - Mexico
Raymond Poincaré age 44
President - France
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 35
King - Italy
Emperor Taishō age 25
Emperor - Japan
Mehmed V age 60
Sultan - Ottoman Empire
Charles I of Austria age 17
Emperor - Austria-Hungary
Albert I of Belgium age 30
King - Belgium
Francisco I. Madero age 31
President - Mexico
Yuan Shikai age 45
President - Republic of China
Armand Fallières age 63
President - France
Guangxu Emperor age 33
Emperor - Imperial China
Émile Loubet age 66
President - France
Menelik II age 60
Emperor - Ethiopia
Venustiano Carranza age 45
President - Mexico
Peter I of Serbia age 61
King - Yugoslavia
Abbas II of Egypt age 31
Khedive - Khedivate of Egypt
Ahmad Shah Qajar age 7
Shah - Iran
Fuad I of Egypt age 37
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar age 33
Shah - Iran
Zewditu age 29
Empress - Ethiopia
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia age 26
Emperor - Russian Empire
Gojong of the Korean Empire age 52
Emperor - Korean Empire
Victoriano Huerta age 54
President - Mexico
Venceslau Brás age 37
President - Brazil
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar age 52
Shah - Iran
Nilo Peçanha age 37
President - Brazil
Rodrigues Alves age 57
President - Brazil
Afonso Pena age 57
President - Brazil
Pedro Lascuráin age 49
President - Mexico
Sunjong of the Korean Empire age 31
Emperor - Korean Empire
Hussein Kamel of Egypt age 51
Sultan - Sultanate of Egypt
Hermes da Fonseca age 50
President - Brazil
Tomás Estrada Palma age 70
President - Cuba
Delfim Moreira age 36
President - Brazil
Francisco León de la Barra age 42
President - Mexico
Francisco S. Carvajal age 34
President - Mexico
Lij Iyasu age 10
Emperor - Ethiopia
Hsu Shih-chang age 49
President - Republic of China
Feng Guozhang age 46
President - Republic of China
José Miguel Gómez age 47
President - Cuba
Mario García Menocal age 38
President - Cuba
Manuel Estrada Cabrera age 45
President - Guatemala
Eulalio Gutiérrez age 24
President - Mexico
Vladimir Lenin age 35
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Pierre de Coubertin age 42
President - International Olympic Committee
David Lloyd George age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Georges Clemenceau age 63
Prime Minister - France
Józef Piłsudski age 37
Chief of State - Poland
Arthur Balfour age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
H. H. Asquith age 52
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Friedrich Ebert age 34
Chancellor - Germany
Aristide Briand age 43
Prime Minister - France
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg age 48
Chancellor - German Empire
Ignacy Jan Paderewski age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Bernhard von Bülow age 56
Chancellor - German Empire
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 45
Prime Minister - Italy
Henry Campbell-Bannerman age 68
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ōkuma Shigenobu age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Katsura Tarō age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Prince Maximilian of Baden age 38
Chancellor - German Empire
Georg Michaelis age 47
Chancellor - German Empire
Georg von Hertling age 61
Chancellor - German Empire
Giovanni Giolitti age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Terauchi Masatake age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Hara Takashi age 49
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikola Pašić age 59
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Saionji Kinmochi age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Antonio Salandra age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Sidney Sonnino age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Paolo Boselli age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Luigi Luzzatti age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
René Viviani age 41
Prime Minister - France
Alessandro Fortis age 62
Prime Minister - Italy
Louis Botha age 42
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ignacy Daszyński age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
Boutros Ghali age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Jędrzej Moraczewski age 35
Prime Minister - Poland
Stojan Protić age 48
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Mustafa Fahmi Paşa age 65
Prime Minister - Egypt
Rida al-Rikabi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Xiong Xiling age 35
Premier - Republic of China
Li Jingxi age 46
Premier - Republic of China
Muhammad Said Pasha age 42
Prime Minister - Egypt
Edward Douglass White age 59
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Melville Fuller age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Thomas R. Marshall age 51
Vice President - United States
Charles W. Fairbanks age 53
Vice President - United States
Talaat Pasha age 30
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
James S. Sherman age 49
Vice President - United States
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha age 60
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Izzet Pasha age 41
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mahmud Shevket Pasha age 49
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Said Halim Pasha age 41
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha age 72
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha age 50
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Kâmil Pasha age 73
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Mehmed Said Pasha age 67
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
İbrahim Hakkı Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha
Grand Vizier - Ottoman Empire
Deng Xiaoping age 10 months
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 6
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 19
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 3
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
He Long age 9
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 5
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Winston Churchill age 30
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar Law age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Austen Chamberlain age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Curzon age 46
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Elihu Root age 60
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener age 55
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Jennings Bryan age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 37
Secretary of War - United States
Robert Lansing age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel age 34
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Leonard Wood age 44
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Robert Bacon age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Philander C. Knox age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Charles Joseph Bonaparte age 54
Attorney General - United States
William Gibbs McAdoo age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Carson age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon age 32
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Newton D. Baker age 33
Secretary of War - United States
Carter Glass age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Reginald McKenna age 42
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane age 48
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
George B. Cortelyou age 42
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Adna Chaffee age 63
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Lindley Miller Garrison age 40
Secretary of War - United States
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby age 40
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
William Henry Moody age 51
Attorney General - United States
Tasker H. Bliss age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
L. M. Shaw age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Luke Edward Wright age 58
Secretary of War - United States
Eric Geddes age 29
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Jacob M. Dickinson age 54
Secretary of War - United States
Franklin MacVeagh age 67
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Clark McReynolds age 43
Attorney General - United States
Peyton C. March age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone age 37
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Hugh L. Scott age 51
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Thomas Watt Gregory age 43
Attorney General - United States
John C. Bates age 62
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave age 49
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William Wallace Wotherspoon age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
J. Franklin Bell age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Edward Shortt age 43
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Francis Butler Loomis age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald age 38
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Éamon de Valera age 22
President - Sinn Féin
Arthur Henderson age 41
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Joseph Chamberlain age 69
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Charles Evans Hughes age 43
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Griffith age 34
President - Sinn Féin
Keir Hardie age 48
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne age 60
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
William R. Day age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Edwin Montagu age 26
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Langalibalele Dube age 34
President - African National Congress
John Burns age 46
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Joseph McKenna age 61
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Adamson age 42
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Edward Martyn age 46
President - Sinn Féin
George Barnes age 46
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Charles Masterman age 31
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Henry Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton age 75
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford age 33
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran age 56
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Donald Maclean age 41
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Edmond Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice age 59
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jack Pease, 1st Baron Gainford age 45
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Sefako Makgatho age 44
President - African National Congress
Charles Hobhouse age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Thomas McKinnon Wood age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham age 52
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Sweetman age 60
President - Sinn Féin
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 23
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Warren G. Harding age 39
Senate - United States
Charles Curtis age 45
Senate - United States
Frank B. Kellogg age 48
Senate - United States