Persian Constitutional Revolution
Merchants and clerics force the shah to share power
Protests in 1905 against arbitrary rule and foreign concessions grew into a mass strike, with thousands of Tehranis taking refuge in the grounds of the British legation. In 1906 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah granted a constitution and the first Majlis opened. In 1908 the new shah shelled parliament, but in 1909 constitutionalists took Tehran and deposed him.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 9 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 13 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 15 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 19 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 16 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — same year
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 14 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — same year
- 1908 Tunguska event — 3 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 12 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 12 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 24 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 20 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 19 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 8 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 1 year earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 17 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 22 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 20 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 11 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 9 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 6 years later
Americas
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 2 years earlier
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 1 year later
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 5 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 9 years later
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 24 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 12 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 12 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 6 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 77)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 71)
- Thomas Edison (aged 58)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 49)
- Marie Curie (aged 38)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 36)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 35)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 34)
- Winston Churchill (aged 31)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 27)