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Explore January 21, 1898 – February 21, 1930

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Events

Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31

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 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31

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 San Juan Hill 1898-07-01 - 1898-07-01

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

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

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

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

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

Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22

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

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

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

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

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

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 Sarantaporo 1912-10-22 - 1912-10-23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Ctesiphon (1915) 1915-11-22 - 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 Arras (1917) 1917-04-09 - 1917-05-16

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

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 - 1918-07-18

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 1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31

Irish War of Independence 1919-01-21 - 1921-07-11

Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18

March 1st Movement 1919-03-01

Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919-04-13 - 1919-04-13

Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29

May Fourth Movement 1919-05-04

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) 1919-05-15 - 1922-10-11

Occupation of Smyrna 1919-05-15 - 1922-09-09

Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28

Battle of Petrograd 1919-09-28 - 1919-11-14

Orel–Kursk operation 1919-10-11 - 1919-11-18

Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31

Founding of the League of Nations 1920-01-10

Prohibition in the United States 1920-01-17 - 1933-12-05

Kiev offensive (1920) 1920-04-24 - 1920-06-13

Battle of Warsaw (1920) 1920-08-12 - 1920-08-25

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution 1920-08-18

Tambov Rebellion 1920-08-19

Non-cooperation movement 1920-09-04 - 1922-02-12

Siege of Perekop (1920) 1920-11-07 - 1920-11-17

First Battle of İnönü 1921-01-06 - 1921-01-11

Kronstadt rebellion 1921-03-01 - 1921-03-18

Second Battle of İnönü 1921-03-26 - 1921-03-31

Battle of Kütahya–Eskişehir 1921-07-10 - 1921-07-24

Battle of the Sakarya 1921-08-23 - 1921-09-13

Washington Naval Conference 1921-11-12 - 1922-02-06

Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921-12-06

Irish Civil War 1922-06-28 - 1923-05-24

Battle of Dumlupınar 1922-08-26 - 1922-08-30

Burning of Smyrna 1922-09-13 - 1922-09-22

March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29

Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30

Treaty of Lausanne 1923-07-24

1923 Great Kantō earthquake 1923-09-01

Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey 1923-10-29

Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09

Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin 1924-01-21 - 1924-01-27

Abolition of the Ottoman caliphate 1924-03-03

Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18

Locarno Treaties 1925-12-01

Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29

Shanghai massacre 1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

Nanchang Uprising 1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05

Autumn Harvest Uprising 1927-09-07

Kellogg–Briand Pact 1928-08-27

Discovery of penicillin 1928-09-28

First five-year plan (Soviet Union) 1928-10-01 - 1932-12-31

Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01

Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01

Black Tuesday 1929-10-29

Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936

People

Nicolae Ceaușescu born 1918-01-26

Haile Selassie age 5

Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15

Buzz Aldrin born 1930-01-20

Patrice Lumumba born 1925-07-02

Yitzhak Rabin born 1922-03-01

Rosalind Franklin born 1920-07-25

Andrei Sakharov born 1921-05-21

Douglas MacArthur age 18

Giorgio Napolitano born 1925-06-29

Idi Amin born 1925-01-01

Erwin Rommel age 6

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi born 1919-10-26

Carl Benz age 53

Hermann Göring age 5

Helmut Schmidt born 1918-12-23

Rachel Carson born 1907-05-27

Grigori Rasputin age 29

Edward VIII age 3

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia born 1924-08-01

Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 21

Wernher von Braun born 1912-03-23

Eva Perón born 1919-05-07

Clement Attlee age 15

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 34

Harriet Tubman age 75

George C. Marshall age 17

Enver Hoxha born 1908-10-16

Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24

Empress Dowager Cixi age 62

Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17

Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05

Eduard Shevardnadze born 1928-01-25

William Ewart Gladstone age 88

Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20

Park Chung-hee born 1917-11-14

Vyacheslav Molotov age 7

Anthony Eden age 7 months

Menachem Begin born 1913-08-16

Philippe Pétain age 41

Emiliano Zapata age 18

Erich Honecker born 1912-08-25

Harold Macmillan age 3

Cecil Rhodes age 44

Ibn Saud age 22

Harold Wilson born 1916-03-11

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman born 1920-03-17

Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 233

James Callaghan born 1912-03-27

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto born 1928-01-05

António de Oliveira Salazar age 8

Eva Braun born 1912-02-06

Juan Perón age 2

Heydar Aliyev born 1923-05-10

Norodom Sihanouk born 1922-10-31

Kim Dae-jung born 1924-01-06

T. E. Lawrence age 9

Susan B. Anthony age 77

Boutros Boutros-Ghali born 1922-11-14

Aldo Moro born 1916-09-23

Léopold Sédar Senghor born 1906-10-09

Ludwig Erhard age 11 months

Kurt Waldheim born 1918-12-21

Jomo Kenyatta age 4

Julius Nyerere born 1922-04-13

Olof Palme born 1927-01-30

Süleyman Demirel born 1924-11-01

Sirimavo Bandaranaike born 1916-04-17

Joachim von Ribbentrop age 4

Jonas Salk born 1914-10-28

Karl Dönitz age 6

Pierre Trudeau born 1919-10-18

Fulgencio Batista born 1901-01-16

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 30

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 9

Wojciech Jaruzelski born 1923-07-06

Syngman Rhee age 22

U Thant born 1909-01-22

Rudolf Hess age 3

George S. Patton age 12

Giulio Andreotti born 1919-01-14

Hideki Tojo age 13

Alexander Dubček born 1921-11-27

Francesco Cossiga born 1928-07-26

Ahmed Ben Bella born 1916-12-25

Bernard Montgomery age 10

Richard von Weizsäcker born 1920-04-15

Albert Speer born 1905-03-19

Rajendra Prasad age 13

Turgut Özal born 1927-10-13

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 22

Eisaku Satō born 1901-03-27

Georgy Malenkov born 1902-01-08

Getúlio Vargas age 15

Jean-Bedel Bokassa born 1921-02-22

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar born 1920-01-19

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

Emmeline Pankhurst age 39

Sergei Korolev born 1907-01-12

Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07

Ferdinand Foch age 46

Edward Heath born 1916-07-09

Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05

Lester B. Pearson age 9 months

Habib Bourguiba born 1903-08-03

Felix Dzerzhinsky age 20

Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15

Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi born 1920-12-09

Hastings Banda age 8

Moshe Dayan born 1915-05-20

Pancho Villa age 19

Elizabeth Cady Stanton age 82

Trygve Lie age 1

Isabella II age 67

Franz von Papen age 18

Celâl Bayar age 14

Alija Izetbegović born 1925-08-08

Subhas Chandra Bose age 12 months

Nestor Makhno age 9

Franjo Tuđman born 1922-05-14

Jorge Rafael Videla born 1925-08-02

Urho Kekkonen born 1900-09-03

Walter Ulbricht age 4

Isoroku Yamamoto age 13

Wilhelm Keitel age 15

Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27

Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08

Alec Douglas-Home born 1903-07-02

Alcide De Gasperi age 16

Hassan II born 1929-07-09

Cemal Gürsel age 2

Kenneth Kaunda born 1924-04-28

Léon Blum age 25

Robert Schuman age 11

Alfred Rosenberg age 5

Georgi Dimitrov age 15

Imre Nagy age 1

Andrei Gromyko born 1909-07-18

Erich Ludendorff age 32

Kliment Voroshilov age 16

Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09

Kenan Evren born 1917-07-17

Isaac Shamir born 1915-10-22

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq born 1924-08-12

Faisal I of Iraq age 12

Yasuhiro Nakasone born 1918-05-27

Umberto II of Italy born 1904-09-15

Ngo Dinh Diem born 1901-01-03

Henry A. Wallace age 9

Abdullah I of Jordan age 16

Bülent Ecevit born 1925-05-28

Kim Young-sam born 1927-12-20

Leopold III of Belgium born 1901-11-03

Erich von Manstein age 10

Chaim Weizmann age 23

Sandro Pertini age 1

Theodor Heuss age 13

Walter Scheel born 1919-07-08

Alfred Jodl age 7

Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah born 1929-06-16

Olav V of Norway born 1903-07-02

Ion Antonescu age 15

Beji Caid Essebsi born 1926-11-29

Alfredo Stroessner born 1912-11-03

Fidel Ramos born 1928-03-18

Wallis Simpson age 1

Juscelino Kubitschek born 1902-09-12

Ernst Röhm age 10

Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16

Agostinho Neto born 1922-09-17

Ahmed Sékou Touré born 1922-01-09

Ayub Khan born 1907-05-14

Saud of Saudi Arabia born 1902-01-15

Pietro Badoglio age 26

Juan Antonio Samaranch born 1920-07-17

Chester W. Nimitz age 12

Mauno Koivisto born 1923-11-25

Karolos Papoulias born 1929-06-04

Zakir Husain age 11 months

Juliana of the Netherlands born 1909-04-30

Pridi Banomyong born 1900-05-11

Milton Obote born 1925-12-28

Yun Po-sun age 4 months

Gustav Heinemann born 1899-07-23

Murad V age 57

Hans Frank born 1900-05-23

János Kádár born 1912-05-26

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro born 1918-09-09

Valdas Adamkus born 1926-11-03

Fahri Korutürk born 1903-08-03

Édouard Daladier age 13

Kurt von Schleicher age 15

Cordell Hull age 26

Raúl Alfonsín born 1927-03-12

Frederik IX of Denmark born 1899-03-11

Tunku Abdul Rahman born 1903-02-08

Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 15

Chang Myon born 1899-08-28

Manuel Azaña age 18

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