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 1918 - 1923 (4 years)
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| 1 | 1888 | - 15 Jan 1888—9 Nov 1918: Reign of Wilhelm II
King of Prussia * German Emperor
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1913 | - 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the USA
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| 4 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
WWI also known as the Great War
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1921 | - 4 Mar 1921—2 Aug 1923: Presidency of Warren G. Harding
29th President of the USA
- 3 May 1921: Partition of Ireland
The partition of Ireland was the process by which the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland divided Ireland into two self-governing polities: Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. The Government of Ireland Act 1920, intended for both home rule territories to remain within the United Kingdom and contained provisions for their eventual reunification. Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the territory of Southern Ireland left the UK and became the Irish Free State, now the Republic of Ireland.
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| 9 | 1923 | - 2 Aug 1923—4 Mar 1929: Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the USA
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