1906 - Finland becomes the first country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.

1905, in London, is the first Cretan restaurant to open outside of Greece. Named 1905 after the date of Crete’s historic revolution, its aim is to capture the unparalleled Cretan spirit and share it with all who enters its doors.

Signature dishes include:

KAKAVIA
A greek fisherman's soup with mussels and vegetables

CHESTNUT STIFADO
A slow cooked and warming dish made with braised chestnuts, pearl onions and spices like cinnamon and cloves.

TSIGARIASTO LAMB
Pieces of tender goat or lamb seasoned with oregano and cooked very slowly in a splash of wine with onions and new potatoes.

1904

The Panama Canal Zone is lent by Panama to the US. Surely this will be a friendly and prosperous agreement for only a few years.

1903
The German Empire & The Ottoman Empire agreed to the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, which would connect Baghdad to Berlin because the Germans wanted to build a port there.

1902
The first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, premiers in Paris, France september 1st.

1901 - The fateful beginning of all diplomacy games.

Feb 19 - Florence Green, last surviving WW1 veteran, is born

Mar 2 - Claude Choules, last surviving WW1 combat veteran, is born

The states of former Yugoslavia use the 1900 Trieste gauge to measure altitudes, labeling hights as meters above the Adriatic

1899 - beginning of Second Boer War

1898 - Charge of Roosevelt's Rough Riders during the Battle of San Juan Hill.

1897 - first Dos Equis beer is brewed

1896 - first modern Olympics is held in Athens

USA topped the table with 11 golds but Greece amassed the most medals with 47 dwarfing USA's 20.

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1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.
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Sorry for messing up the post count. I'll do two.

Also wanted to note I did not know about Charlie Chaplin, Hitler, and Wittgenstein all being born in the same month of the same year. That's very... cosmically epic.

1894 - Aforementioned Franco-Russian alliance encircles Germany. Letters detailing the alliance state that, in the event of an attack by Germany on Russia or France, Russia is to send 700,000 troops to fight, and France is to send 1,300,000 troops to fight.

In trying to find more information leading to the events of WWI....

1895 - Japanese and Chinese conclude Treaty of Shimonoseki among various European powers expressing self-interests and resulting in recognition of Korean independence and surrendering Port Arthur and Liaotung Peninsula to Japan; Russians upset over Japanese gains

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1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.
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:!: This is the most American thing I've ever heard :!:

1893

France and Russia created their defensive pact, which would later become the Triple Entente once Britain joined a little over a decade later. Below is the original text of the agreement, 1893 is when it was finalized and publicized.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/frrumil.asp

(since the classic map of this game is based on WWI, until we hit 1914 we should find stuff that lead to the outbreak of that war)

1892

Samoa changes it's time, crossing the international date line, having two consecutive days as July 4th and a 367 day year.

1891 January 29 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii. Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893

January 15, 1890 – Ballet The Sleeping Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1889

Charlie Chaplin, Adolf Hitler and Ludwig Wittgenstein all born in April

1888-1888 North Canterbury earthquake in new zealand happens. the incredibly creative name is inspired by the location of the epicenter of the earthquake (the North Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Hanmer), and, get this, the year the earthquake took place, the aforementioned 1888. Motion to award the prestigious and most creatively named "Creative Name Award For Naming Something Creatively In A Creative Fashion, Just Like This Award's Name" award to this earthquake?

1887 - Schrodinger is/isn't born