Kuwait under British protection
Sheikh Mubarak trades his foreign policy for British protection
On 23 January 1899 Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah secretly agreed not to receive agents of other powers or cede them land without Britain's consent, and Britain in return pledged to protect Kuwait. The deal shut the Ottomans and Germany out of the Gulf there and made Kuwait a British protectorate.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 15 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 19 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 21 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 13 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 10 years earlier
- 1901 First Nobel Prizes — 2 years later
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 6 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 4 years earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 6 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 9 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 18 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 18 years later
Africa
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 13 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 2 years earlier
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 1 year earlier
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — same year
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 5 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 16 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 14 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 5 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 5 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 3 years earlier
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 23 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 20 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 4 years later
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 7 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 15 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 6 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 6 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 12 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 80)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 71)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 65)
- Thomas Edison (aged 52)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 43)
- Marie Curie (aged 32)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 30)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 29)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 28)
- Winston Churchill (aged 25)