Uprising against Ottoman rule broke out in Albania.
April.
Albanian revolt was suppressed by the Turkish army.
May
6th
King Edward VII of the Great Britain died. His son Prince George
became King George V.
May
18th
The earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet .
May
31st
The union of South Africa was established.
August
13th
The 'Lady with the Lamp' English nurse Florence Nightingale
died. Nightingale served as a nurse in the Crimean War.
August
22nd
Japan
annexed Korea.
November
7th
The Wright Brothers used flight for the first time to deliver
goods. The commercial freight travelled between Dayton, Ohio
and Columbus, Ohio.
November
20th
Mexican Revolution exploded Francisco I. Madero denounced President
Porfirio Díaz, declared himself President and called
for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
November
20th
Russian writer and author of 'War and Peace', Leo Tolstoy died.
December
16th
A failed robbery on a jewellers in the East End of London, by
four (Latvian) anarchists was the prelude to the Sidney Street
Siege. Three policemen were shot and three robbers were captured.
Other members of the anarchist gang escaped and went into hiding.
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