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+ | |image_caption=British strategist [[Halford Mackinder]] releases his "[[The Geographical Pivot of History]]" to the [[Royal Geographical Society]], that advances his [[heartland theory]], which later also decided US imperial planning. | ||
+ | "Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world. | ||
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+ | == Events == | ||
+ | * [[January 25]] – [[Halford Mackinder]] presents a paper on "[[The Geographical Pivot of History]]" to the [[Royal Geographical Society]] of London in which he formulates the [[Heartland Theory]], originating the study of [[geopolitics]]. | ||
+ | * [[February 8]]–[[February 9|9]] – [[Battle of Port Arthur]]: A surprise Japanese naval attack on [[Lüshunkou District|Port Arthur]] (Lüshun) in [[Manchuria]] starts the [[Russo-Japanese War]]. | ||
+ | * [[February 10]] – [[Roger Casement]] publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the [[Congo Free State|Congo]]. | ||
+ | * [[April 8]] – The [[Entente Cordiale]] is signed between the UK and France. | ||
+ | * [[April 27]] – The [[Australian Labor Party]] becomes the first such party to gain national government, under [[Chris Watson]]. | ||
+ | * [[May 4]] – United States Army engineers begin work on the [[Panama Canal]]. | ||
+ | * [[May 5]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men.<ref>https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18</ref> | ||
+ | * [[June 16]] – Finnish nationalist [[Eugen Schauman]] assassinates [[Nikolay Bobrikov]], the Russian [[Governor-General of Finland]], in Helsinki. | ||
+ | * [[August 3]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: The [[British Empire|British]] expedition under Colonel [[Francis Younghusband]] takes [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]], [[Tibet]]. | ||
+ | * [[August 11]] – [[Battle of Waterberg]]: [[Lothar von Trotha]] defeats the [[Herero people]] in [[German South-West Africa]], and drives them into the [[Omaheke]] desert, starting the [[Herero and Namaqua Genocide]]. | ||
+ | * [[September 7]] – [[British expedition to Tibet]]: The [[Dalai Lama]] signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel [[Francis Younghusband]]. | ||
+ | * [[October 21]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: [[Dogger Bank incident]] – The Russian [[Baltic Fleet]] fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the [[North Sea]]. | ||
+ | * [[December 6]] – [[Theodore Roosevelt]] announces his [[Roosevelt Corollary|"Corollary"]] to the [[Monroe Doctrine]], stating that the United States will intervene in the Western Hemisphere, should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable. | ||
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![]() British strategist Halford Mackinder releases his "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society, that advances his heartland theory, which later also decided US imperial planning.
"Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world. | |
Year 1904 |
Contents
Events
- January 25 – Halford Mackinder presents a paper on "The Geographical Pivot of History" to the Royal Geographical Society of London in which he formulates the Heartland Theory, originating the study of geopolitics.
- February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.
- February 10 – Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian atrocities in the Congo.
- April 8 – The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.
- April 27 – The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- May 4 – United States Army engineers begin work on the Panama Canal.
- May 5 – British expedition to Tibet: Hundreds of Tibetans attack the British camp at Changlo, and hold the advantage for a while, before being defeated by superior weapons, and losing at least 200 men.[1]
- June 16 – Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, the Russian Governor-General of Finland, in Helsinki.
- August 3 – British expedition to Tibet: The British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa, Tibet.
- August 11 – Battle of Waterberg: Lothar von Trotha defeats the Herero people in German South-West Africa, and drives them into the Omaheke desert, starting the Herero and Namaqua Genocide.
- September 7 – British expedition to Tibet: The Dalai Lama signs the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty with Colonel Francis Younghusband.
- October 21 – Russo-Japanese War: Dogger Bank incident – The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea.
- December 6 – Theodore Roosevelt announces his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States will intervene in the Western Hemisphere, should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Events
Event | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
Dreyfus Affair | November 1894 | 1906 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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St. Bernard's School | ![]() | ||
The College of New Rochelle | ![]() | Military ranks Catholic | Now closed Catholic college in New York State. |
Stuyvesant High School | ![]() | Public high school in New York City ranking among the top schools in the nation. Offering offer tuition-free accelerated schooling to city residents. | |
Saint Michael's College | ![]() | Military ranks Roman Catholicism Liberal arts | Private Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Vermont. |
TASS | ![]() | News agency | Russian state-owned news agency, successor of Soviet-era agency with same name. |
==A Quotation==
Deaths
Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
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William Collins Whitney | 5 July 1841 | 2 February 1904 | United States | Politician Financier | US finanicer and politician of the John Whitney family | |
Mark Hanna | 24 September 1837 | 15 February 1904 | Washington DC D.C. | Politician Deep politician | American businessman and Republican party kingmaker | |
Theodore Herzl | 2 May 1860 | 3 July 1904 | Austria-Hungary Edlach | Cardiac sclerosis | Author Journalist Playwright Activist | |
Marcus Goldman | 9 December 1821 | 20 July 1904 | US New Jersey Elberon | Financier | Founder of Goldman Sachs, which has since become one of the world's largest investment banks | |
Thomas Baring | 22 January 1826 | 15 November 1904 | Hampshire Stratton Park |
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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William Skardon | 1904 | 1987 | Spook | MI5 counterintelligence expert who failed to catch Philby and many others | |
Paul Chambers | 1904 | 1981 | Businessperson | Chairman of ICI. Attended the 1963 and 1968 Bilderbergs. | |
René Clement-Cuzin | 1904 | 1966 | Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s. Little known | ||
William Schnitzler | 1904 | June 1983 | Trade unionist | US single Bilderberger who was Secretary-Treasurer in the union AFL–CIO. | |
Johannes Green | 1904 | Banker | Danish banker who attended the 1969 Bilderberg | ||
Henry Townley Heald | 1904 | 1975 | Academic | President of the wealthy Ford Foundation | |
Julian Wadleigh | 1904 | 1994 | Spook Economist | Economist and spy | |
Robert Fraser | 1904 | 1985 | Editor | An Australian who, in the United Kingdom, worked as a journalist, civil servant and as the first Director General of the British Independent Television Authority. | |
Rene Sergent | 1904 | 1984 | Bureaucracy Deep state operative | French bureaucrat who was involved in the Marshall Plan and worked for NATO in the early 1950s. Secretary-General of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) from 1955 to 1961, when it was changed into the OECD. Attended the 1963 Bilderberg meeting. | |
Ludovic Tron | 3 January 1904 | France Molines-en-Queyras | 24 October 1968 | Diplomat Deep state operative | President of French deep state network Le Siècle for 15 years. |
Giorgio La Pira | 9 January 1904 | 5 November 1977 | Politician | ||
Rudolf Mueller | 18 January 1904 | Germany Hesse Darmstadt | 20 March 1997 | Lawyer Deep state actor Businessperson | Consulted by Józef Retinger when setting up the Bilderberg group |
Seán MacBride | 26 January 1904 | France Paris | 15 January 1988 | Prominent Irish and international politician, Nobel laureate | |
Maurice Bridgeman | 26 January 1904 | 18 June 1980 | Businessperson | UK Businessman who attended the 1968 Bilderberg as Chair of BP | |
Niel Morgan | 30 January 1904 | Wales Glamorgan Cyncoed | 14 September 1985 | Propagandist Athlete | |
George Kennan | 16 February 1904 | Milwaukee Wisconsin | 17 March 2005 | Diplomat Historian Deep politician | Suspected US deep politician, member of the Georgetown Set |
Hans Morgenthau | 17 February 1904 | Germany Coburg Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 19 July 1980 | Academic | |
H. Page Smith | 17 February 1904 | United States Alabama Grand Bay | 4 January 1993 | Mariner | US admiral who attended the 1964 Bilderberg as Commander in Chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet. |
William Shirer | 23 February 1904 | Chicago | 28 December 1993 | Journalist Historian | American journalist and war correspondent. |
Norman Robertson | 4 March 1904 | Vancouver British Columbia | 16 July 1968 | Diplomat Spook Civil servant Deep state actor | Canadian spook and later Ambassador to the UK and US, and "helped Canada become a part of the intelligence community". Attended the 1961 Bilderberg. Played a role in the overthrow of the John Diefenbaker.government in 1963. |
Reinhard Heydrich | 7 March 1904 | Germany Halle an der Saale | 4 June 1942 | Spook Police officer | |
John Sirica | 19 March 1904 | Connecticut Waterbury | 14 August 1992 | Judge | |
Graham Hutton | 3 April 1904 | 14 October 1988 | Propagandist | ||
Kurt Georg Kiesinger | 6 April 1904 | Germany Ebingen | 9 March 1988 | Politician War criminal? | Five early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND |
Claud Cockburn | 12 April 1904 | 15 December 1981 | Journalist | ||
Glen Taylor | 12 April 1904 | Portland Oregon | 28 April 1984 | Musician Politician Actor Businessperson | |
Clifford Case | 16 April 1904 | New Jersey Franklin Park Franklin Township | 5 March 1982 | Politician Lawyer | A lawyer cum politician who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as a US Senator from New Jersey |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | 22 April 1904 | 18 February 1967 | Physicist | Developer of the US atomic bomb. | |
Jacob Javits | 18 May 1904 | 7 March 1986 | Politician Lawyer | Attended the 1964 Bilderberg as United States Senator from New York | |
Sefton Delmer | 24 May 1904 | Germany Berlin | 4 September 1979 | Journalist Propagandist | WWII UK propagandist, single Bilderberger |
Henry Grunfeld | 1 June 1904 | 10 June 1999 | Banker | ||
Nicholas Bodington | 6 June 1904 | France Paris | 3 July 1974 | Spook Journalist | |
Raymond Cartier | 13 June 1904 | 18 February 1975 | Journalist | French journalist, editor of Paris Match during the 1960s. Bilderberg/1971. | |
Lawrence Hafstad | 18 June 1904 | 12 October 1993 | Physicist Electrical engineer | In 1954, he outlined the principles for export of US nuclear technology. Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg | |
Alexander Menne | 20 June 1904 | Germany Dortmund | 3 March 1993 | Politician | German politician (FDP) who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1950s |
Pablo Neruda | July 1904 | 23 September 1973 | Poet | Chilean national poet and Nobel Prize winner who was poisoned by the secret police, possibly with participation of the CIA, after the 1973 coup d'état. | |
Louis J. Lefkowitz | 3 July 1904 | New York Manhattan | 20 June 1996 | Politician Lawyer | The longest serving New York Attorney General. Plenty of licensing corruption on his watch. |
Roger Duchet | 4 July 1904 | France Lyon | 6 September 1981 | Politician Vetinarian | French politician who attended the first Bilderberg in 1954 |
Roger Motz | 8 July 1904 | Belgium Schaarbeek | 27 March 1964 | Politician Businessperson | Belgian politician who attended 4 Bilderberg meetings in the 1950s, including the first one. |
Pinhas Lavon | 12 July 1904 | Austria-Hungary Kopychyntsi | 24 January 1976 | Politician | |
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld | 14 July 1904 | Berlin | 21 August 1999 | Diplomat | German diplomat who spied for Britain during WW2. Went on to high positions in the West German foreign service, and attended the 1963 Bilderberg meeting. |
James Killian | 24 July 1904 | United States South Carolina Blacksburg | 29 January 1988 | Academic | |
Frederick Payne | 24 July 1904 | Maine Lewiston | 15 June 1978 | Politician Businessperson | US former Senator |
Selwyn Lloyd | 28 July 1904 | United Kingdom Cheshire West Kirby Wirral | 18 May 1978 | British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs during the Suez Crisis | |
Erich Dethleffsen | 2 August 1904 | Kiel | 4 July 1980 | Spook Soldier | German Nazi general, later Gehlen Organisation and BND. 1958 Bilderberg |
Duncan Oppenheim | 6 August 1904 | Lancashire St Helens | January 2003 | Businessperson | Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as Chairman of British American Tobacco, and the 1968 Bilderberg as chairman of Chatham House |
Terkel Terkelsen | 11 August 1904 | Denmark Tjæreborg | 25 April 1985 | Editor | 19 time Bilderberg visitor and editor of Berlingske Tidende |
John Hay Whitney | 17 August 1904 | Maine Ellsworth | 8 February 1982 | Diplomat Billionaire Deep state operative | Billionaire active investor, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1957-61 |
Eric Ashby | 24 August 1904 | 22 October 1992 | Academic Botanist | Celebrated and much travelled UK academic who advised the 1970 Bilderberg on "The Environmental Problem". | |
Arthur F. Burns | 27 August 1904 | Austria-Hungary Stanislau | 26 June 1987 | ||
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