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-Arthur Evans discovers the ruins of Knossos, Crete
-The population of Britain is 44,3 million
-Britain authorizes the commonweath of Ausralia uniting the
separate colonies on the continen under one federal government with capital at Melbourne -
Britain authorizes the commonweath of Ausralia uniting the
separate colonies on the continent under one federal government with capital at Melbourne -
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The British colonies of Australia become the Federated commonweath of Australia
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It recognizes Japan's rights in Korea and British's rights in China
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It grants autonomy to south africa and creating segregation for blacks
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The conservative Arthur Balfour becomes prime minister of Britain
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Women's social political union is founded
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The outdoor theater ''The Mall'' is inaugurated in London
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France and Britain agree to spheres of influence of their respective empires
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Britain apologizes to the Boer of south Africa for the war and grants independence to the Transvaal and the Orange free state
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The Liberal party, representing financiers and entrepreneurs, comes into power
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New Zealand becomes a self-govering dominion of the British empire
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They negociate the status of Persia, Tibet and Afghanistan
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Britain and Germany engage in a naval race
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He reforms tax land to pay sickness, invalidity and unemployement insurance
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Norman Angel publishes The Great illusion in which he claims that war has become pointless because the real competition is economic
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Britain and France sign a naval treaty to fend off the threat of the German nay
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World War I breaks out in the Blakans, pitting Britain, France, Italy, Russia, SERbia, USA and Japan against Austria, Germany, and Turkey, and both Gandhi and Tilak pledge alliance to Britain
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German submarines sink the British passenger ship ''Lusitania'', killing almost 2000 people
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The Lucknow pact unites the Congress and the league in their fight for independence from Britain
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Ottoman troops led by Mustafa Kemal defeat the British at Gallipoli
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The first Christian soldiers to do so since the crusades
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Civil war erupts between the REd Army of th Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks (helped by Britain and USA)
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2million russian, 1.8million Germans, 1.3 million French,, 1.1 million Austro-Hungarians, 0.9 million Britons, 0.6million Turks and 0.5million Italians are dead
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-The IRA is formed in Ireland to fight British rule
-Britain bans opium
-Race riots in Liverpool and Cardiff
-British troops massacre 379 peaceful demonstrators in Amritsar, the beginning of large-scale riots in India
-Afghanistan gains independence from Britain -
-Palestine becomes a Britsh protectorate
-The British evacuate the Crimea and 150000 Russiand refugees flee to British-controlled Istanbul -
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-Gandhi is imprisoned following terrorist acts agains the British
-Britain, the USA, France, Japan and Italy sign the Washington Naval treaty to lmit the size of their navies
-Egypt declares its independence
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unemployement skyrockets in Britain in the coal-mning, textile and shipbuilding industries
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The british empire exhibition is held at Wembley
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Britain promotes the revision of Geran borders at the Locarno treaty
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Balfour declares that Britain and its dominions are equal in status and freely associated in a commonwealth of nations
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The Labur Party wins the national elections although the Conservative party got more votes and Ramsay McDonald becomes prime minister
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Britain, Japan, France, Italy and USA sign the London Aval treaty, to reduce naval warfare
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EMI opens the largest recording studio in the world at Abbey Road in London
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The Conservatives win the national elections in Britain but McDonald remains primes minister of a right-wing cabinet
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Poor unemployed people from the British coutryside set out on the National Hunger march
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King George V broadcasts a speech on the radio to the entire British Empire
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Edward VIII abdicates in order to marry a divorced woman
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The IRA carries out the first bombings in Briain
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British unemployment is 9.3% compared with Germany's 2.1%