1907
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Feb. 13 - British suffragettes stormed Parliament and 60 were arrested.
Mar. 15 - The first women in Finland were elected to the Parliament: Finland was the first European country to grant women the right to vote in 1906, followed by Norway in June 1907.
Mar. 30 - Gabriel and Charles Voisin opened the first aircraft factory in France at Billaincourt.
May 16 - Pact of Cartagena by England, France, Spain recognized the status quo in the Mediterranean, opposed any German plans to take the Baleric Islands.
June 10 - Lumiere Bros developed the Autochrome color photography process using three glass plate negatives coated with colored starch grains.
June 15 - Second Hague Peace Conference.
July - Triple Alliance renewed for six years.
Aug. 31 - Anglo-Russian Entente ended the "Great Game" in Asia, recognized Russian sphere of influence in northern Persian and British influence in southern Persia and Afghanistan.
Oct. 18 - Hague international peace conference renewed the conventions of war defined in the 1899 Hague agreement.
Dec. 19 - Roosevelt announced that the Great White Fleet of American warships would make a round-the-world voyage in 1908.
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Sources:
- Hale, Oron J. The Great Illusion, 1900-1914. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 361 p.
- Joll, James. The Origins of the First World War. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 1992. 264 p.
- Stone, Norman. Europe Transformed, 1878-1919. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999. 339 p.
- Taylor, A. J. P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. 638 p