The Wakhan Corridor divides two empires
A thin strip of mountains keeps Russia and British India apart
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Closing the 'Great Game' in the Pamirs, Russia and Britain agreed in 1895 on a border along the Panj river. Between them they left Afghanistan a valley in places only 13 km wide, so that the two empires would nowhere touch.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 19 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 23 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 25 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 9 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 6 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 10 years later
- 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand — 19 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 24 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — same year
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 10 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 13 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 22 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 22 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 10 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 13 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 13 years later
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 20 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 21 years later
Africa
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 9 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 2 years later
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 3 years later
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 4 years later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 9 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 19 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 16 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 7 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 8 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 19 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 2 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 2 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 16 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 76)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 67)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 61)
- Thomas Edison (aged 48)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 39)
- Marie Curie (aged 28)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 26)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 25)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 24)
- Winston Churchill (aged 21)