Young Turk Revolution
Conspirator officers force the sultan to restore the constitution
In summer 1908 officers of the secret Committee of Union and Progress mutinied in Macedonia. Fearing an army revolt, Abdul Hamid II restored the 1876 constitution on 24 July amid public jubilation. A year later the sultan was deposed, and power gradually passed to the committee's leaders, Enver, Talaat and Djemal.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 6 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 10 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 12 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 22 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 19 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 3 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 11 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 3 years earlier
- 1908 Tunguska event — same year
- 1917 October Revolution — 9 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 9 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 21 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 23 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 22 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 11 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 4 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 14 years later
Asia
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — 25 years earlier
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — 23 years earlier
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — 14 years earlier
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 12 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 3 years later
Americas
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 5 years earlier
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 2 years earlier
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 2 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 6 years later
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 21 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 15 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 15 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 3 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 80)
- Thomas Edison (aged 61)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 52)
- Marie Curie (aged 41)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 39)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 38)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 37)
- Winston Churchill (aged 34)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 30)
- Albert Einstein (aged 29)