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Diplomat John Hay creates an Open-Door Policy to enable trade between America and China. -
U.S and U.K Sign peace treaty for Panama Canal. -
German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sends first wireless telegraph to shore -
Filipino guerrillas attack U.S infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig -
United Kingdom annexes Orange Free State. -
The Reichstag approved a second law allowing the German Navy to expand -
Imperial Chinese Army begins 55-day siege on Beijing Legation Quarter -
King Umberto I of Italy assassinated by Gaetano Bresci -
Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat U.S Units under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham -
Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses. -
Six British colonies united to become The Commonwealth of Australia. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania -
Edward VII Becomes king after Queen Victoria dies -
Platt Amendment limits autonomy but US removes troops in cuba -
Assassination of William McKinley, Theodor Roosevelt takes office -
Boxer Rebellion defeated, heavy financial sanctions on china. -
First trans-Atlantic radio signal -
Unification started in 1902 until 1932 -
Japanese attack Port Arthur and start the Russo-Japanese War -
Cuba gains independence from the United States -
British win Second Boer War -
Arthur Balfour becomes Prime Minister -
First Air Conditioner invented -
Richard Steiff invents the first teddy bears -
King and Queen of Serbia assassinated in military coup -
First ever Tour de France -
Pius X becomes Pope -
Panama becomes independent after signing of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty -
Wright Brothers mark the first controlled heavier-than-air flight -
Entente cordiale signed between Britain and France. -
Trans-Siberian Railroad is the longest single rail system in the world, stretching nearly 6,000 miles in Russia, going from Moscow to Vladivostok. -
Revolution in Russia erupts due to a wave of mass political and social unrest -
Norway declares union with Sweden dissolved and achieves full independence -
Japanese win Russo-Japanese War with a peace treaty and Russia returns Port Arthur. -
Albert Einstein published his annus mirabilis paper on what is now called special relativity. -
Province of Bengal partitioned by Viceroy of India despite strong opposition -
Henrey Campbell-Bannerman becomes prime minister -
An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 kills over 3,000 people in San Francisco, California. -
Commercial Middle-Eastern oil field established -
Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated as a major in the French army and the Dreyfus Affair ends. -
United States forces begin to Occupy Cuba for the second time. -
An earthquake of 8.2 magnitude kills 20,000 in Valparaíso, Chile. -
A Brazilian man named Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris -
Muslim League formed by Nawab Salimullah Khan -
Elections of new Parliament in Finland are the first with woman candidates. -
Japan and Korea sign a treaty -
Ottoman Empire experiences Young Turk Revolution -
H. H. Asquith becomes Prime Minister of UK -
Bureau of Investigation Founded -
Asteroid devastates thousands of square kilometers in Siberia -
Ford invents Model T. -
Bulgaria becomes an independent country -
The last Emperor of Chine assumes the thrown -
An earthquake in southern Italy of a magnitude of 7.1 kills 70,000 -
William Howard Taft is inaugurated, divisions in republican party due to tariffs. -
Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 signed -
Indian Councils Act passed. -
Robert E. Peary claims he reached the North Pole. -
Ottoman Empire countercoup fails -
Mohammad Ali Shah abdicates in favor of his son due to revolution forces -
American Boy Scouts if founded -
The "Unsinkable" RMS Titanic sinks on its first and last voyage across the Pacific Ocean -
George V becomes king of the UK, British Dominions and Emperor of India after the death of Edward VII. -
Union of South Africa created -
Montenegro proclaims independence -
Japan annexes Korea -
Revolution in Portugal and proclamation of First Portugal Republic -
Plan of San Luis Potosí begins which is the Mexican Revolution -
Eugene B. Ely lands the first aircraft on a ship. -
African National Congress is created -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 workers and leads to workplace safety reform. -
Italo-Turkish war begins, Italy captures Libya in this war -
Xinhai Revolution begins to overthrow the Qing dynasty of china -
Swiss automotive engineer co-founds Chevrolet with his brothers and other in Detroit -
New Delhi becomes capital -
Ronald Amundsen reaches South Pole -
Republic of China takes the place of the Chinese Empire -
Arizona becomes part of the continental United States -
Morocco becomes a protectorate of France as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Fez. -
Emperor of Japan(Meiji) dies, his son(Taishō) becomes emperor; end of the Meiji Era, -
The nationalist Chinese party is established; The Kuomintang -
Over the course of a month, the Balkan armies drove the Turks from nearly all of their holdings in southeast Europe, decisively and swiftly defeating the Ottoman army. -
Ottoman coup d'état Ismail Enver is brought into power -
La Decena Trágica in Mexico City. -
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated and becomes president of the United States of America -
Igor Stravinsky's film The Rite of Spring premiers in Paris -
The signing of the Treaty of London was signed after the Ottoman Empire lost almost all of its remaining European territory, including all of Macedonia and Albania. -
the Treaty of Bucharest was negotiated by local states, rather than by the great powers. -
The first moving assembly line is introduced to automobile manufacturing by the Ford Motor Company -
It took many months and nearly straight party-line voting, The Senate passed and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.