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Inda's movement
Indian National Congress is Established. The party will take the helm of India's independence movement. -
Sherman Act.
U.S Congress passed the Sherman Antirust Act which they break up large monopolies. -
First movie
Louis and Auguste Lumiere showed the first motion picture "Workers leaving the Lumiere Factory- at a cafe in Paris. -
Spanish-American War
U.S defeats Spain in the three month Spanish-American War. As a result, Cuba became indpendent and the U.S bought Puerto Rico and the Philippines from spain for $20 million. -
New President
President William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarachist, leading vice President Theodore Roosevelt President. -
Russia splits into two.
Democratic Party in Russia splits into two groups, the moderate Mensheviks meaning minority and the hard-line Bolsheviks meaning majority. Mensheviks outnumbered the bolsheviks. -
Russo-Japanese War
Lasted into 1905, Japanese victory begins. Japan becomes the first major non-western power of mondern times. In Russia, the war is followed by the Revolution of 1905, marks the beginning of the end of czarist rule. -
Russian Revolution
Following the "bloody Sunday" riots before the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in January, revolution spreads throughout Russia, in some places spurred on by newly formed workers' councils, or soviets. -
First Battles of Marne & Ypres
Western Front, the first battles of the Marne and Ypres establish a line that will more or less hold for the next four years. Exuberance is still high on both sides, but will dissipate as thousands of German, French, and British soldiers sacrifice their lives in battles over a few miles of barbed wire and mud.
