1895 Norway adopts Mid-European time

1896 Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays

1897 Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York

1898 Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island are consolidated into New York City.

1898 Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay

1899 Cuba liberated from Spain by US

1900 British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established

1900 Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect

1901 Australia becomes a Commonwealth under British rule.

1901 Australia declares independence from federation of UK colonies

1902 Nathan Stubblefield makes first public demonstration of radio, Pennsylvania

1902 The first Rose Bowl game (Pasadena CA) (University of Michigan-49, Stanford-0)

1904 Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production

1905 9 hour work day for diamond miners

1906 Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory

1907 President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

1908 The first time, a ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square

1910 Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs

1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9½-hour work day

1911 South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government

1912 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic

1913 Post office begins parcel post deliveries

1914 Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands' first socialist mayor (Zaandam)

1914 Northern & Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria

1914 The first part of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway is opened for service between North Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay, 12 miles.

1914 The first scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot)

1915 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview

1915 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled

1918 Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland

1919 Belorussian SSR established

1922 Vancouver BC starts driving on the right side of road

1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established

1924 Grossdeutsche Völksgemeinschaft/Völkische Block replaces NSDAP

1925 Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo

1926 Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne

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