Battle of Adwa
Menelik II routs Italy and keeps Ethiopia free
On 1 March 1896 the army of Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II routed an Italian invasion force. Ethiopia kept its independence and became one of only two African states to escape colonisation during the Scramble for Africa.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 18 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 22 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 24 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 10 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 7 years earlier
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — 1 year earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 9 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 1 year earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 9 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 12 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 21 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 21 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 9 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 12 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 12 years later
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 19 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 20 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 13 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 11 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 2 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 2 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — same year
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 20 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 17 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 8 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 7 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 3 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 3 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 15 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 77)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 68)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 62)
- Thomas Edison (aged 49)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 40)
- Marie Curie (aged 29)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 27)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 26)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 25)
- Winston Churchill (aged 22)