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
- Guatemala begins and ends war with El Salvador and Honduras
- Earthquake kills more than 3,000
- Typhoon kills more than 2,000
- Lens coal mine disaster kills more than 1,800 miners
- Pierre Curie (professor at the Sorbonne) dies
- 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)
- Typhoon kills more than 2,000
- Mount Vesuvius erupts, killing more than 500
- The Simplon rail tunnel to Switzerland is opened
- Takashima mine explosion kills 256 miners
- Launches the biggest battleship in the world, the Satsuma
- Demonstrations and armed conflicts by provincial ethnic classes
- “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
- General strikes
- Assassination attempt on the King and Queen
- 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
- Austin Motor Co founded
- Buses start service in London
- Muslim tribal violence in India
- Plague in India kills over 1.1 million
- 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.
- Crete wins its independence and votes for unification with Greece
- 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
- Norway peacefully gains independence from Sweden
- Norwegian Roald Amundsen sails the northwest passage
- Demonstrations and armed conflicts by provincial ethnic classes
- Crete wins its independence
- 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
- Bethlehem Steel formed in Pennsylvania
- First Nickelodeon opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, Louisiana kills more than 3,000
