World Events
The Sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic
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- April 14th-15th: The R.M.S. Titanic, a ship of monumental size at the time,had struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic ("The 1900s: World..."). The accident caused the deaths of 1,517 people with seven hundred passengers rescued soon after the sinking by the Carpathia, a passing ship ("The 1900s: World..."). The Titanic was not as unsinkable as the public had believed and even to this day the Titanic is remembered as one of the most devastating and memorable incidents of the early 1900s.
Birth Of The Republic Of China
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- January 1st: On the first day of the new year, Sun Yat-sen announced both the formation of the Republic of China and the new political party called the Kuomintang, or the Chinese Nationalist Party (Hamilton). Sun became of the president of the new nation but relinquished his presidency in favor of of the more established Yuan Shikai (Hamilton). While the Republic of China lost control of mainland China in 1949 to the People's Republic of China, the Kuomintang party still functions today in the territory still controlled by the Republic of China ("Chinese Revolution and...").
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The start of The First balkan war
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- October 8th: After forming the Balkan League earlier in the year, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire in early October (Hall). The war itself was mainly over built up hostilities towards the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan League's main goal was to remove the empire from eastern Europe (Hall). The conflict would end seven months later to then take a turn when the Greeks and Serbs aligned to fight against Bulgaria over land acquired from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the start to the Second Balkan War (Hall). The wars were a precursor to the eventual World War I and the first conflicts to happen in Europe in the 1900s (Hall).