First Zionist Congress
Herzl gathers a movement for a Jewish home in Palestine
In August 1897 some two hundred delegates summoned by Theodor Herzl adopted the Basel Program: a 'home secured by public law' for the Jewish people in Palestine. Herzl wrote in his diary that at Basel he had founded the Jewish State, and that in fifty years everyone would see it.
Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 17 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 21 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 2 years earlier
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 8 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 11 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 20 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 8 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 11 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 11 years later
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 18 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 19 years later
Africa
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 11 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — same year
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 1 year later
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 2 years later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 7 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 14 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 12 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 3 years earlier
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — 3 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 1 year earlier
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 21 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 18 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 9 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 6 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 17 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 4 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 4 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 14 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 78)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 69)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 63)
- Thomas Edison (aged 50)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 41)
- Marie Curie (aged 30)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 28)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 27)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 26)
- Winston Churchill (aged 23)