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| 1 | 1837 | - 20 Jun 1837—20 Jan 1901: Reign of Victoria
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland * Empress of India
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| 2 | 1885 | - 4 Mar 1885—4 Mar 1889: Presidency of Grover Cleveland
22nd President of the USA
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| 3 | 1888 | - 15 Jan 1888—9 Nov 1918: Reign of Wilhelm II
King of Prussia * German Emperor
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| 4 | 1889 | - 4 Mar 1889—4 Mar 1893: Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the USA
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| 5 | 1893 | - 4 Mar 1893—4 Mar 1897: Presidency of Grover Cleveland
24th President of the USA
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| 6 | 1896 | - 1896—1899: Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered on Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River in Yukon, Canada. During the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1899 at least 100,000 people stampeded to the gold fields.
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| 7 | 1897 | - 4 Mar 1897—14 Sep 1901: Presidency of William McKinley
25th President of the USA
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| 8 | 1901 | - 1 Jan 1901: Federation of Australia
The Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The process by which six separate British self-governing colonies (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia) agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
- 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: Reign of Edward VII
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India
- 14 Sep 1901—4 Mar 1909: Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the USA
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| 9 | 1907 | - 26 Sep 1907: Dominion of New Zealand
The Dominion of New Zealand was formed when it was chosen not to take part in the Federation of Australia.
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| 10 | 1909 | - 4 Mar 1909—4 Mar 1913: Presidency of William Howard Taft
27th President of the USA
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| 11 | 1910 | - 6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: Reign of George V
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
- 31 May 1910—31 May 1961: Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa came into being with the unification of the Cape Colony, the Natal Colony, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony. It included the territories that were formerly a part of the South African Republic (1852 to 1902) and the Orange Free State (1854-1902).
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| 12 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the USA
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| 13 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
WWI also known as the Great War
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| 14 | 1916 | - 24 Apr 1916: Easter Rising
An armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic
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| 15 | 1917 | - 8 Mar 1917—16 Jun 1923: Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917 and concluding in 1922 with the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War.
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| 16 | 1918 | - Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu
The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, infecting 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, making it one of the most deadliest pandemics in world history.
- 9 Nov 1918: Monarchy of Germany Abolished
Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands upon Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918.
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| 17 | 1919 | - 21 Jan 1919—11 Jul 1921: Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces. As a result, in April 1921 the island was partitioned into Southern and Northern Ireland.
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1889 - 1919 (30 years)