1910

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[edit] Events

  • January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
  • January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
  • January 16 - Constant rains in Paris, France cause the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro become filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
  • February 20 - Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
  • March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
  • March 19 - In America, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
  • April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
  • April 27 - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found South Africa Party.
  • April 27 - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
  • April 29 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
  • Korea becomes a colony of Japan.

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