Dreyfus affair
A Jewish officer's false conviction splits France
In 1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted on forged evidence of spying for Germany and sent to Devil's Island. Émile Zola's article J'accuse (1898) turned the case into a national schism; Dreyfus was fully exonerated only in 1906.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 20 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 1 year later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 11 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 14 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 23 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 11 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 14 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 14 years later
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 21 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 22 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 9 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 8 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 3 years later
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 4 years later
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 5 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 11 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 9 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — same year
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — same year
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 2 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 18 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 15 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 6 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 9 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 1 year earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 1 year earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 17 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 75)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 66)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 60)
- Thomas Edison (aged 47)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 38)
- Marie Curie (aged 27)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 25)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 24)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 23)
- Winston Churchill (aged 20)