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The Dreyfus Affair

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Events

• January 4 – A military alliance is established between the France and the Russian Empire.
• February 15 – At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin attempts to destroy the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, England, with a bomb, killing himself instead.
• March 2 – William Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister.
• March 25 – Coxey's Army (of the unemployed), the first significant protest march in the United States, departs from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.
• April 11 – Britain establishes a protectorate over Uganda.
• May 1– Coxey's Army arrives in Washington; Coxey is arrested on the Capitol grounds.
• May 1 – The May Day Riots (against unemployment) break out in Cleveland, Ohio.
• May 11 – Pullman Strike: Three thousand Pullman Palace Car Company factory workers go on a "wildcat" (without union approval) strike in Illinois.
• June 22 – Dahomey becomes a French colony.
• June 24 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, president of France, is assassinated.
• July 16 – The United Kingdom and Japan sign the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, as the U.K. becomes the first of the Western nations to agree to give up its extraterritorial rights in Japan.
• August 1 – War is declared between the Qing Empire of China and the Empire of Japan, over their rival claims of influence on their common ally, the Joseon dynasty of Korea. The event marks the start of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• August 31 – New Zealand enacts the world's first minimum wage law, to take effect on January 1, in the passage of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894.
• September 4 – In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.
• October 1 – The Owl Club of Cape Town, South Africa, a dining club, has its first formal meeting.
• November 1 – Emperor Alexander III of Russia is succeeded by his son, Nicholas II.
• November 7 – The Masonic Grand Lodge de France is founded, splitting from the larger and older Grand Orient de France.
• November 26 – Wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse in the [[Grand Church of the Winter
• December 18 – Women in South Australia become the first in Australia to gain the right to vote and to be elected to Parliament, taking effect from 1895, after decades of activism.
• December 21 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes Canada's fifth prime minister.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901
Dreyfus Affair	November 1894	1906

 

A New Group

Group	Image	Type	Description
University of Tulsa		Military ranks	Private university in Tulsa, Oklahoma

 

==A Quotation== 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Robert Garner	1894		13 December 1975	Central banker Businessperson	Working for the World Bank, he focused on financing of development programs. He attended the 1956 Bilderberg, where several of the topics concerned the relationship between the West and the Third World.
Imbriani Longo	1894			Banker	Italian banker
Lester Markel	9 January 1894	New York US	23 October 1977	Journalist
Per Jacobsson	5 February 1894	Sweden Tanum Bohuslän	5 May 1963	Economist	Attended 2 Bilderbergs as Managing Director of the IMF
Harold Macmillan	10 February 1894	United Kingdom Belgravia Middlesex	29 December 1986	Media executive	UK PM
John J. Bennett Jr.	2 March 1894	New York US Brooklyn	4 October 1967	Politician Lawyer	New York State Attorney General from 1931 to 1942
Gino Scarpa	24 March 1894		29 March 1963	Editor	Italian editor who attended the 1956 Bilderberg
George Merck	29 March 1894		9 November 1957	Businessperson	The president of Merck & Co. from 1925 to 1950. During World War II, he led the War Research Service, which initiated the U.S. biological weapons program with Frank Olson.
Larry Bell	5 April 1894	US Indiana Mentone	20 October 1956	Industrialist	Founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation, a part of the military-industrial complex, with ties to Lyndon B. Johnson. Grand Master freemason.
Evgenia Shelepina	10 April 1894	Russia Gatchina	13 March 1975
Nikita Khrushchev	15 April 1894	Kalinovka Kursk Governorate Russia/Tsarist Russia	11 September 1971
Rudolf Heß	26 April 1894	Turkey Egypt Alexandria	17 August 1987		Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom during World War II. The circumstances around his flight are still highly unclear.
H. V. Evatt	30 April 1894	New South Wales	2 November 1965	Politician	Australian Minister for External Affairs from 1941 to 1949
Herschel Johnson	3 May 1894	United States Georgia Atlanta	16 April 1966
Archibald Maule Ramsay	4 May 1894	Scotland	11 March 1955	Soldier Politician
Ellsworth Bunker	11 May 1894		27 September 1984	Diplomat Deep state functionary	Cold War hawk, diplomatic troubleshooter
Alfred Kinsey	23 June 1894		25 August 1956
Edward Windsor	23 June 1894	United Kingdom Surrey	28 May 1972	British royal family
Lewis Douglas	2 July 1894	United States Arizona Bisbee	7 March 1974	Diplomat Politician Academic Businessperson	US diplomat
Gavrilo Princip	25 July 1894	Bosnia and Herzegovina Austria-Hungary	28 April 1918		The "lone nut" assassin who supposedly started the First World War
William Henry Draper Jr.	10 August 1894		26 December 1974	Banker Deep state operative	Banker, government official, and diplomat. Business connections to Germany both before and after WW2. Also known as the "Wall Street General" who sabotaged reform in Japan. Founder of the Population Crisis Committee in 1965.
Joszef Peter	11 August 1894	Hungary Austria-Hungary Csap	1990	Spook	Soviet spy in the United States.
George Meany	16 August 1894	New York Harlem	10 January 1980	Activist Deep state operative	AFL-CIO/President 1955-79, Le Cercle
Henri Lafond	20 August 1894		6 March 1963		French banker assassinated in 1963
Ernest Holloway Oldham	10 September 1894	London Edmonton UK	29 September 1933	Spook	Cipher clerk in the British Foreign Office
J. B. Priestley	13 September 1894	United Kingdom Bradford West Riding of Yorkshire Manningham	14 August 1984	Author Playwright Broadcaster
Lionel Payne	2 October 1894		11 February 1965	Spook	A director general of MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)
Moshe Sharett	16 October 1894	Kherson Russia/Tsarist Russia	7 July 1965	Politician	Prime Minister of Israel 1954-1955
Ludger Westrick	23 October 1894	Germany Münster	31 July 1990	Politician Businessperson	A Wehrwirtschaftsführer and close friend of Hermann Göring during World War 2, he attended the 1964 Bilderberg as German Chancellery Chief of Staff.
Robert Murphy	28 October 1894	United States Milwaukee Wisconsin	9 January 1978	Diplomat Deep state operative	Bilderberg Steering committee
Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi	16 November 1894	Japan Tokyo	27 July 1972	Philosopher	The founder of the first influential movement for a united Europe.
E. N. van Kleffens	17 November 1894	Heerenveen	17 June 1983	Diplomat Politician	Dutch Bilderberger, heavy Bilderberg habit, President of the United Nations General Assembly 1954-55
T. V. Soong	4 December 1894	Shanghai	25 April 1971	Politician Banker Deep state actor Businessperson	Chinese businessman, banker, politician, and influential deep state actor
Walter Boveri	6 December 1894		20 March 1972	Banker Businessperson	Attended the Bilderbergs from 1959 to 1962
Chester Ronning	13 December 1894	China Fancheng	31 December 1984	Diplomat Politician	Canada's leading expert on China
Robert Menzies	20 December 1894		15 May 1978	Politician Deep state actor	Anglophile deep state actor, prime minister of Australia 1939-41, 1949-66
Friedrich Ruge	24 December 1894	Germany Leipzig	3 July 1985	Mariner	Attended Bilderberg/1961 as outgoing Commander of the West-German Navy.

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