1903
1st Flight
At the controls during the 1st flight in a powered aircraft, 120ft in 12 seconds
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At the controls during the 1st flight in a powered aircraft, 120ft in 12 seconds
Makes the 1st flight in a powered aircraftl, North Carolina, 120ft in 12 seconds
Arrested as an agitator & is expelled from Switzerland
Russian policy supports Austro-Russian demands for reforms in the Balkans.
Wins support for a tighter centralised party organisation.
Becomes associated with the Menshevik faction after the split.
Appointed Member of Bolshevik Party
Appointed chairman of the Committee of Ministers.
Moves from finance to the chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers.
Japan decides to go to war with Russia
At the end of March 1903 the Morning is ordered to return, leaving supplies with the Discovery, still sealed in the ice, several crew are exchanged, including Shackleton, who was considered not healthy enough to remain for the winter
While the Morning is refitted for another relief voyage, this time organised by the Admiralty rather than the Royal Geographical Society, she sails south again in November, in company with a second relief ship, Terra Nova.
The party reached Discovery on 24 December, after a round trip of seven hundred miles covered in 59 days. Their daily average of over 14 miles on this man-hauling journey was significantly better than that achieved with dogs on the previous seasons southern journey, a fact which further strengthened Scotts prejudices against dogs
Among these, against his will, was the convalescent Shackleton, who Scott decided "ought not to risk further hardships in his present state of health".
The party eventually reached the Discovery on 3 February 1903 after covering 960 miles (1,540 km) including relays, in 93 days travel at a daily average of just over 10 miles (16 km).
The relief ship provided an opportunity for some of the party to return home.
Discovers the typhus vaccine
Dismisses Witte as Minister of Finance
Receives her doctorate for research on radioactive substances.
Gains international recognition for explaining ions in chemical solutions.
The First Otto Blehr Government ends in Oslo, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Norway.
Founds the Free Food League with Conservative MPs in favour of free trade
Ford and twelve investors establish Ford Motor Company with twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Founds the Free Food League with Conservative MPs in favour of free trade
Agrees to the Russian annexation of Manchuria
Conducts the first performance of his incidental music for Kuolema at the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki.
Leaves direct control of the Finance Ministry.
Prince Andrew marries Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg in a civil wedding
Plehve blames the Jews for revolutionary feeling. 50 Jews are killed during an anti-Jewish pogrom
Supports Martov against Lenin in party disputes.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the theory of electrolytic dissociation.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering spontaneous radioactivity.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics and becomes the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel.
Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for noble, versatile, and inspired poetry.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for radiation research.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for radiation research.
Fisher becomes Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth.
Begins a one-year term as President of the Swiss Confederation.
Begins his first presidency and launches the reformist programme later known as Batllismo
Appointed Prime Minister of Spain
Appointed Prime Minister of Spain, 1st term
Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
Returns from the southern journey weakened by illness and is later sent home on the relief ship Morning
The first Congress of the newly formed Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) is held, and from then on Trotsky considered himself a member of the party
Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
Russian and Austrian diplomacy presses Turkey for Macedonian reforms.
Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
Russia & Austria jointly demand Turkey make reforms in the Balkans
Attends the Second Congress where party disputes intensify.
Defends a broader definition of party membership.
Helps secure adoption of the party programme.
Sides with Martov during the early factional dispute.
Begins the Second Francis Hagerup Government in Oslo and serves as Prime Minister of Norway.
Speaks in the Commons against the Governments proposed increase in military spending
Supports Free Trade in answer to Chamberlains speech in favour of Imperial Preference
Attacks his party's proposals to increase military expenditure
Rebukes Chamberlains speech on Imperial Preference in the Commons
Succeeds as King of Great Britain. Proclaimed Emperor of India
A race more than a month long: Paris to Lyon to Marseille to Toulouse to Bordeaux to Nantes to Paris"
Desgrange announced the race on the pages of the newly-christened lAuto. The race would be "the greatest cycling trial in the entire world.
Desgrange moved the race to July 1 to July 19, promised a five france per day living allowance to the first fifty riders and upped the prize money to 20,000 francs. 60 riders rose to the challenge.
Desgrange scheduled five weeks for this epic from May 31 to 5 July, specified "equal terms" (no pacers), an entry fee of twenty francs.
The conditions were deemed too hard, such that with a week to go, only fifteen had signed up for the event.
When Garin rode into Paris as winner, in front of a crowd of 20,000 paying spectators, Desgrange rushed out a special edition of lAuto, whose sales had rocketed to 130,000. The first running had been a resounding success
Geo Lefevre surveys the 1st Tour de France route and on 19 January 1903, just four days after losing the plagiarism suit to Giffard, Desgrange announced the race on the pages of the newly-christened L'Auto.
The Tour de France is announced for the 1st time.
The race was advertised as "the greatest cycling trial in the entire world.."
The route would last more than a month and run from Paris through Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes before returning to Paris.
Promotion of the Tour de France proved a great success for the LAuto newspaper. Circulation leapt from 25,000 before the Tour to 65,000 after it. Follows the race as best he could, sometimes riding in the bunch on his bicycle, then catching a train to go ahead to see to the next checkpoint - a one-man, roving commissaire, organiser and reporter
1st day of a good will visit to Paris
The Washington Protocols ended the blockade and referred creditor claims to international arbitration.
Helps found the Womens Political & Social Union, daughter of Emily Pankhurst
Founds the Womens Political & Social Union to campaign for female emancipation
Birth of Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home
Birth of George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, in Motihari.
Birth of George's Simenon, creator of Maigret
Birth of Otto Abetz
Birth of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Cilveti
Death of Ronglu
Death of Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father
Death of Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father
Death of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
Death of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
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