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| 1903 |
| | Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies | |
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| 1903 |
| | A US warship appears off the coast of Panama in support of rebels declaring an independent republic | |
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| 1903 |
| | The Colombian government rejects the Hay-Herrán treaty with the US on the Panama canal, thus prompting the break-away of Panama | |
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| 1903 |
| | The USA is granted exclusive control in perpetuity of a ten-mile corridor across Panama, suitable for a canal | |
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| 1904 |
| | A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age | |
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| 1904 |
| | The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert | |
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| 1904 |
| | British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa | |
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| 1905 |
| | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1905 |
| | The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising | |
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