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| 1906 |
| | | The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Burman Oil Company, developing a concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy, discovers oil in Iran | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The last Manchu emperor, Puyi, is placed on the throne at the age of two on the death of his uncle, the Guanxu emperor | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Empress Dowager Cixi dies the day after selecting the infant Puyi for the Chinese throne | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts | |
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1909 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule") | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Sun Yatsen and others merge several smaller Chinese political groups into the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Japan annexes Korea as a colony, to be controlled by a Japanese governor-general | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Ten men and two women establish the first kibbutz, at Degania in Palestine | |
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