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Gazetteer

(Newest campaign year first)

1906

British battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched. It is the most powerful and fastest warship in existence at the
time (Lore: PCs will be sent to investigate a threat to the launch of the Dreadnought)
Zulu tribal conflict in British South Africa ends in British victory
Plague in India kills over 300,000
Suffragettes demonstrations in London
Rolls Royce founded

Native rebellions in German Southwest and East Africa
Sonar for subs introduced
Monist League founded in Germany by Zoologist Ernst Haecke for promotion of eugenics and racial
improvement. The movement will be adopted as a main emphasis of Nazi Germany (Lore: PCs will have a
mission where they have the opportunity to end this movement before it starts)

“Holy man” Rasputin establishes his influence at the Russian court (Lore: Rasputin has been in control of the Czar
since last year, but this is the first time he shows himself publicly at court)
Demonstrations, protests and armed conflicts by workers and provincial ethnic classes
Duma, first elected Russian parliament, takes office in May and is disbanded by the Tsar in July
Revolutionary Leon Trotsky exiled to Siberia

Cuba acquired as a U.S. territory when the U.S. sends troops to put down an insurrection. Secretary of War,
William Howard Taft, made provisional governor until fair elections can be held
New York City police start using fingerprinting
Kellogg launches corn flakes
Coca Cola removes cocaine from it’s drinks
Haid Co founded (Xerox)
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” is published
First film studio opens in New York, first animated cartoon
First radio broadcast, first jukeboxes, first Victrola
“Typhoid” Mary Mallon is found working in the food service industry on Long Island. She is a carrier of the disease
and the source of several epidemics. She is released with the caveat that she never work in the food service
industry again. She breaks her promise and causes epidemics for 5 years. She is then apprehended and
confined to a hospital for the next 23 years
San Francisco earthquake kills more than 2,500

1905

Tribal violence in French Morocco
Jules Gabriel Verne dies
Mata Hara (Margaretha Zelle) starts exotic dancing career, combining the dances of the native East Indies with
that of striptease.

Native rebellions in German Southwest and East Africa
German Navy develops the U-boat.
Einstein writes 5 papers of his theories while working in a patent office. These include the theory of relativity, the
theory of light quantum and the equation for energy.

January: Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese
May: Russian Baltic fleet engages the Japanese fleet near Korea and is decimated
August: Treaty of Portsmouth negotiated by American President Roosevelt. Japan gets Korea, Port Arthur and
half of the Russian Sakhalin Island. Manchuria given back to the Chinese by Russia

Demonstrations, protests and armed conflicts by workers and provincial ethnic classes including Jan 22 "Bloody
Sunday" where over 500 workers are shot as a peaceful demonstration
Russian grand duke Sergei Alexandrovitch assassinated in Moscow