1882 Chinese Exclusion Act (U.S.)
1882 British invasion of Egypt
1883-1884 Social welfare laws (Germany)
1885 Indian National Congress established
1886 Discovery of gold in the Transvaal
1890s-1910s Labor unrest in West
1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago
1894 Pullman Strike (U.S.)
1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War
1899-1900 Boxer Uprising (China)
1899-1902 South African (Boer) War
1900 Paris Exhibition
1900 British Labour Party founded
1904 Social welfare laws (France)
1904-1906 Herero Revolt (Africa)
1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
1905 British partition of Bengal (India)
1905 Revolt in Russian empire
1905-1906 Maji-Maji Revolt (Africa)
1906 Indian National Muslim League founded
1906 Social welfare laws (England)
1906 Women vote in national elections (Finland)
1907 Financial Panic
1910-1920 Mexican Revolution
1911 Chinese Republican Revolution
1912 Abdication of the last Qing emperor
1914 World War I begins

 

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