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The Chinese Nationalsits kick out the last Qing emperor of China, Henry Puyi. He died a gardener.
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World War I starts when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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United States enters the war on the side of the Allies because the Germans offered Mexico help to reconquer the land they lost to the U.S. in the U.S.-Mexican War.
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The Allies win the war due to the defeat of the Central Powers. The armistice will later become the Treaty of Versailles.
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Gandhi leads the Indian campiagn of civil disobedience by boycotting British goods and making his own clothes.
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Mustafa Kemal transforms Turkey into Republic. Kemals turns Turkey into a republic where he wnats a Western style of government.
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Mao Zedong leads the Long March when the Nationalsits chase the Communists.