The Counting Game

[Ferdack]

1901 - The fateful beginning of all diplomacy games.

Feb 19 - Florence Green, last surviving WW1 veteran, is born

Mar 2 - Claude Choules, last surviving WW1 combat veteran, is born

[New-n-vintage]

1902
The first science fiction film, A Trip to the Moon, premiers in Paris, France september 1st.

[FlaviusAetius]

1903
The German Empire & The Ottoman Empire agreed to the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, which would connect Baghdad to Berlin because the Germans wanted to build a port there.

[SaddamHussein]

1904

The Panama Canal Zone is lent by Panama to the US. Surely this will be a friendly and prosperous agreement for only a few years.

[Jamiet99uk]

1905, in London, is the first Cretan restaurant to open outside of Greece. Named 1905 after the date of Crete’s historic revolution, its aim is to capture the unparalleled Cretan spirit and share it with all who enters its doors.

Signature dishes include:

KAKAVIA
A greek fisherman's soup with mussels and vegetables

CHESTNUT STIFADO
A slow cooked and warming dish made with braised chestnuts, pearl onions and spices like cinnamon and cloves.

TSIGARIASTO LAMB
Pieces of tender goat or lamb seasoned with oregano and cooked very slowly in a splash of wine with onions and new potatoes.

[wintergreen]

1906 - Finland becomes the first country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

KAKAVIA
A Greek fisherman's soup with mussels and vegetables, it's also made traditionally with seawater.

TSIGARIASTO LAMB - Tsigaristo is the correct word

Some minor corrections to Jamie: I am Greek, so I thought I would give him the information.

On August 31, 1907, Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson signed the Anglo-Russian Entente in Saint Petersburg, establishing the Triple Entente. Seven years later, this agreement would mean the greatest war mankind has seen.

[damo666]

1908

June 30th The Tunguska event. The largest impact event in recorded history (although 'impact' is moot since it is generally believed to be an airburst since there is no apparent impact crater).

[Ferdack]

1909 - The Bosnian Crisis ends, Serbia accepts Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[damo666]

1910 penultimate visit of Halley's comet

[FlaviusAetius]

1911, the Italo-Turkic war was the precursor to World War I and introduced many new ideas into warfare, including the airplane!

Greatly weakened Turkey and set up enmity between the Ottomans and the Italians that would lead to conflict in WWI, and led many Balkan states to declare war against Turkey during the war, the first Balkan War.

Finally, this led to Italy signing a treaty with France to secure their holdings in northern Africa.

[damo666]

1912 - iceberg sinks big boat

[kingofthepirates]

1913-Us government ratifies the 16th amendment, allowing the government to impose and collect income taxes on all sources of income, not just some.

Thanks 16th amendment, now we have more taxes >:(

[DrFidelis]

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated after a 3rd lucky attempt succeeds, creating the sparks that ignited Europe in the fires of war.

[Hanging Rook]

In The White War (1915-1918) is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adamello-Presanella Alps. More than two-thirds of this conflict zone lies at an altitude above 2,000m, rising to 3905m at Mount Ortler. In 1917 New York World correspondent E. Alexander Powell wrote: “On no front, not on the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, nor in the frozen Mazurian marshes, nor in the blood-soaked mud of Flanders, does the fighting man lead so arduous an existence as up here on the roof of the world.”

On of the most dramatic events was the White Friday (1916). The most significant avalanche struck the Austro-Hungarian barracks on Mount Marmolada, killing 270 soldiers. Other avalanches on the same day would strike Italian and other Austro-Hungarian positions, killing hundreds. According to some reports, both sides deliberately fired shells into the weakened snowpacks in an attempt to bury the other side.

[damo666]

1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

[wintergreen]

On April 3, 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, after hearing that his mother country had just overthrown its monarchy and deciding to make a deal with the Germans to spy on the new government for them in exchange to safe passage to said country, got off a train at Finland Station in Petrograd, Russia.

The rest, obviously, is history.

[DarthPorg36]

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, the Great War ends. Being the "War to End All Wars", this was definitely the ultimate peace treaty and no war has happened since then.

[JECE]

The Covenant of the League of Nations is signed on 28 June 1919, probably biggest leap forward that humanity has ever taken.

[FlaviusAetius]

In 1920 there was a great flood in China of the Yellow River, one of the lifeblood of China and one of the biggest floods ever recorded. The Jishi Gorge Dam was built to control the river, however, after several months of the water continuing to rise, the dam broke. At its highest level, it was 240 meters above today's water level :O
Did I mention its 1920 BC!! Crazy how much we know about an ancient flood