1931 The Japanese military stages the Mukden Incident, an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria; World War II started sooner for these two countries.

1922 After their victory in the front of Afion Karahissar, Turkish forces invade Smyrna. Hundreds of women are raped, children killed or mutilated, and thousands are killed trying to escape the burning city.
No word of apology had been ever uttered by any Turkish government,

KAKAVIA A Greek fisherman's soup with mussels and vegetables, it's also made traditionally with seawater. TSIGARIASTO LAMB - Tsigaristo is the correct word Some minor corrections to Jamie: I am Greek, so I thought I would give him the information. On August 31, 1907, Count Alexander Izvolsky and Si...

1881 End of the first Boer war.

1878 Treaty of St. Stephen: After (another) war between Russia and the Ottomans, the latter had to cede Rumania's independence and also recognise Bulgaria as a state with enlarged borders reaching the Aegean Sea. The Berlin Council of 1881 curtailed these borders, cutting Bulgaria from the Sea. The ...

Βan DrFidelis for banning himself!

I didn't know that the saying about the apples and the doctors was used in other languages, too (I mean beyond Greek, which is my mother tongue).

Ban the kingofthepirates because I am a prince, and I can do so!

Ban CaptainFritz28 for posting in the dead of the night!

Ban CaptainFritz28 for questioning my ban!

Ban Pengwinja, for no reason, just ban him!

Ban JustAGuyNamedWill for a bad use of the name! When you have this name you ought to be at least a Prince, not just a guy!

Βan Diplomacy&Warfare for creating exciting games!
(by the way, I love the RPG, though I didn't see it from the beginning, so to join the chaos!)

If you have a suspicion of any rule-breaking, you should contact the mods and tell them all about it.

If I had seen this when it started, I'd have joined. May I do so now?

1856 The Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War. Peace would last for two decades before Russia and the Ottomans went to another war.

1852: The first president of the Second French Republic became its last as he became Emperor Napoleon III. He was also going to be the last monarch of the country.

Is there any possibility of full-press bot games?
We used to have them, but then they were abandoned.

1847 First known publication of the classic joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

Actually, it isn't the right map for either 1901 or 1914. Bulgaria is depicted with access to the Aegean Sea, which was only briefly after the 1878 St. Stephen's accord. In 1901, this was not the case, and by 1914, Greece had a border with Turkey along the river Evros, though things were not conclud...

1844: The Edict of Toleration was passed in the Ottoman Empire. It was an attempt by the Sultan to temper the independence movements of the non-Muslim people of the empire.