National delimitation of Central Asia
Old khanates are redrawn into national republics
In 1924 the Turkestan ASSR and the Bukharan and Khorezm republics were abolished and divided along ethnic lines into the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs, a Tajik ASSR within Uzbekistan and autonomous units for Kazakhs and Kyrgyz. Lines drawn then, including through the Fergana valley, largely became today's borders.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 10 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 6 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 15 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 23 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 24 years later
Europe
- 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand — 10 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 5 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 4 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 9 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 12 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 7 years earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 7 years earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 5 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 12 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 17 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 16 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 9 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 8 years earlier
- 1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia — 3 years earlier
- 1923 Treaty of Lausanne — 1 year earlier
Africa
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 25 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 20 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 2 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 11 years later
- 1948 Apartheid begins in South Africa — 24 years later
Americas
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 10 years earlier
- 1920–1933 Prohibition in the United States — 4 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — 5 years later
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 6 years later
- 1933–1939 New Deal — 9 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 13 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 12 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 12 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 17 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 77)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 68)
- Marie Curie (aged 57)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 55)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 54)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 53)
- Winston Churchill (aged 50)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 46)
- Albert Einstein (aged 45)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 43)