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Benjamin Glenman Holbrook

Male 1902 - 1946  (44 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1888 
  • 15 Jan 1888—9 Nov 1918: Reign of Wilhelm II
    King of Prussia * German Emperor
1901 
  • 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
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.
1909 
  • 4 Mar 1909—4 Mar 1913: Presidency of William Howard Taft
    27th President of the USA
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).
1913 
  • 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
    28th President of the USA
1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    WWI also known as the Great War
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
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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 1923 
  • 2 Aug 1923—4 Mar 1929: Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
    30th President of the USA
14 1927 
  • 12 Apr 1927: Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland continued in name until 1927 when it was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
15 1929 
  • 4 Mar 1929—4 Mar 1933: Presidency of Herbert Hoover
    31st President of the USA
  • 24 Oct 1929: Stock Market Crash
    The collapse of the American stock market begins the Great Depression, which ravages the economy during the “Dirty Thirties.”
16 1933 
  • 4 Mar 1933—12 Apr 1945: Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
    32nd President of the USA
17 1936 
  • 20 Jan 1936—11 Dec 1936: Reign of Edward VIII
    King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India
  • 17 Jul 1936—1 Apr 1939: Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil War was republicans and left-leaning government of the Second Spanish Republic against a revolt by the Nationalists, monarchists, conservatives and traditionalists.
  • 11 Dec 1936—6 Feb 1952: Reign of George VI
    King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Emperor of India
18 1939 
  • 1939—1945: World War II
    WWII
19 1945 
  • 12 Apr 1945—20 Jun 1953: Presidency of Harry S. Truman
    33rd President of the USA