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| 1908 |
| | | Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares his country's independence from Ottoman rule and calls himself Tsar Ferdinand I | |
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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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| 1910 May 6 |
| | | Edward VII dies in London, after just nine years on the throne | |
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| 1910 May 6 |
| | | George V succeeds his father, Edward VII, on the British throne | |
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| 1910 |
| | | A republican revolution in Portugal deposes Manuel II, bringing to an end the Braganza dynasty and the Portuguese monarchy | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The abdication of the child emperor Puyi brings to an end the Qing dynasty | |
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| 1914 June 28 |
| | | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Petrograd buzzes with rumours about Rasputin's dissolute life, including salacious hints that he is the lover of the empress Alexandra | |
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