The Color of Time by Dan Jones

Author:Dan Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2018-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

1910

[Jan] First public radio broadcast, made from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York

[May] British king Edward VII dies, and is succeeded by his son George V

[Nov] Revolutionary war begins in Mexico, sparked by the corrupt re-election of longtime president Porfirio Díaz

1911

[May] Porfirio Díaz leaves Mexico for exile in France

[Oct] Violence spreads through China following the accession of the two-year old Puyi as emperor. Republic of China proclaimed the following year

1912

[Jan] Robert Falcon Scott and colleagues reach the South Pole to find they have been beaten there by Roald Amundsen; they die of exposure and starvation on the way back to their base camp

[Apr] RMS Titanic collides with an iceberg and sinks. More than 1,000 passengers and crew drown

[Aug] Chinese nationalist party the Kuomintang is formed

1913

[Mar] King George I of Greece assassinated

[May] Igor Stravinsky’s modernist ballet The Rite of Spring opens in Paris and causes popular uproar

[Jun] Suffragette activist Emily Davison throws herself under the king’s horse at the Epsom Derby and is fatally trampled

1914

[Feb] First Charlie Chaplin films released, introducing his ‘Little Tramp’ character

[Jun] Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo triggers international mobilization that leads to the First World War

[Sep] Battle of the Marne and Race to the Sea establish the Western Front in Flanders and France

1915

[Feb] D.W. Griffith’s innovative film Birth of a Nation released; its blatant racism boosts the reborn Ku Klux Klan

[Apr] Gallipoli campaign begins in the Dardanelles, ending with massive failure and Allied retreat

[May] German U-boat sinks the British liner RMS Lusitania

[Aug] Tsar Nicholas II takes personal command of Russian military effort on the Eastern Front

1916

[Apr] Nationalist Easter Rising in Dublin suppressed by British

[May] Battle of Jutland begins – involving 250 combat ships

[May] Sykes–Picot agreement secretly carves up the Middle East between British and French control

[Jul] Battle of the Somme begins, with more than 60,000 casualties in a single day

[Dec] Mystic and royal favourite Grigori Rasputin murdered in St Petersburg

1917

[Feb] Zimmermann Telegram reveals German attempt to induce Mexico to invade the USA

[Apr] USA enters First World War on the side of Britain and France

[Oct] Bolshevik Revolution completes destruction of the Romanov monarchy and creates a socialist state in Russia

[Nov] Balfour Declaration states that Britain views ‘with favour’ the establishing of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine

1918

[Mar] First recorded case of ‘Spanish flu’ detected in Kansas, USA; it will become a worldwide pandemic

[Apr] Death in combat of fighter pilot ace Manfred von Richthofen, aka the Red Baron

[Nov] Armistice signed by German military leaders ends First World War. Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates

1919

[Jan] Paris Peace Conference opens, leading to the Treaty of Versailles, heavily punishing Germany for actions in the First World War

[Jan] Prohibition legislation ratified in the USA, leading to federal ban on alcohol

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