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In 1896, responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres, Barton sailed to Constantinople and after long negotiations with Abdul Hamid II, opened the first American International Red Cross headquarters in the heart of Turkey.
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1896 and humanitarian
Barton herself traveled along with five other Red Cross expeditions to the Armenian provinces in the spring of 1896, providing relief and humanitarian aid.
Republican campaign poster, 1900, compares prosperity now with depression in 1896, and stresses humanitarian foreign policy
1896 and crisis
The crisis eventually spread to the national level, becoming one of the key issues in the federal election of 1896 and resulted in the defeat of the Conservative government, which had been in power for most of the previous thirty years.
Already made a member of the Legion of Honor, for his contributions to the French economy at a time of crisis, in 1896 Alphonse de Rothschild was elevated to the Grand Cross, the highest class of the Legion of Honor.
The economic crisis was greatly worsened when the Panic of 1893 set off a widespread economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1896.
During the Overend Gurney crisis ( 1866 – 1867 ) and the Long Depression ( 1873 – 1896 ) many companies fell into insolvency and the unpaid portion of the shares fell due.
By 1896, he had commenced editing his long poem La Doublure when he suffered a mental crisis.
In 1890 the school went through a financial crisis and had to close its doors until 1896, when it was reopened under the aegis of the state ( then province of São Paulo ), as the Ginásio Estadual ( State Gymnasium ).
1896 and Ottoman
* Ottoman text edition ( 1896 )
In May 1896, Shaikh Muhammad Al-Sabah was assassinated by his half-brother, Mubarak, who, in early 1897, was recognized, by the Ottoman sultan, as the qaimmaqam ( provincial sub-governor ) of Kuwait.
Dukakis's father Panos ( 1896 – 1979 ) was a Greek immigrant from Adramyttion ( Edremit ), in Turkey, which was then the Ottoman Empire, who settled in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1912, and graduated from Harvard Medical School twelve years later, subsequently working as an obstetrician.
* The Hamidian massacres of 1894 – 1896, refers to the massacring of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire.
In 1896 Gulbenkian was fleeing the Ottoman Empire with his family as a result of the Hamidian massacres.
In practice, the Ottoman Empire failed to enforce the provisions of the Pact, thus fueling the existing tensions between the two communities ; instead, the Ottoman authorities attempted to maintain order by the dispatching of substantial military reinforcements during 1880 – 1896.
Among the Ottoman posts he occupied were Governor of Crete 1895 and 1896, and ambassador in Saint Petersburg.
His governorship of Crete ended with the insurrection of May 24, 1896 that eventually led to the loss of the island by the Ottoman Empire.
The ethnic cleansing of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire is widely considered a genocide, an estimated 1. 5 million victims, with one wave of persecution in the years 1894 to 1896 culminating in the events of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and 1916.
In October 1896 Gladstone, in his last public speech, called for action to support the Armenians who were being massacred by their Ottoman rulers.
1896 Ottoman Bank Takeover ·
After spending the next school year ( 1895 / 1896 ) as a teacher in the town of Bansko, in May 1896 he was arrested by the Ottoman authorities as person suspected in revolutianary activity and spent about a month in jail.
The mother, who came from a prominent Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s.
Yulia, who came from a prominent Armenian family which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, was one of the best Bulgarian tennis players in the 1960s.
In 1896, law and order again broke down in Crete and a final Christian insurrection against Ottoman rule took place.
Map showing the Armenian ( in colours ) and Christians ( in shadings ) populations of the eastern Ottoman provinces in the year 1896.
Ivan Mihailov was born on August 26, 1896, in the village of Novo Selo ( now part of Štip Municipality, Republic of Macedonia ) in the Ottoman Empire.
In late 1896 a rebellion broke out on Crete, and on January 21, 1897 a Greek army landed in Crete to liberate the island from the Ottoman Empire and unite it with Greece.
He completed the military school as the seventh of the class on January 28, 1896 and joined the Ottoman military as an Infantry Second Lieutenant ( Mülâzım-ı Sani ).
The Hamidian massacres (), also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894 – 1896 and Great Massacres, refer to the massacring of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in the mid-1890s, with estimates of the dead ranging from anywhere between 80, 000 to 300, 000, and at least 50, 000 children made orphans as a result.
Frustrated with their indifference, Armenians from the Dashnaktsutiun political party seized the European-managed Ottoman Bank on August 26, 1896 in order to bring the massacres to their full attention.
Military activities in the Ottoman Empire included Bashkaleh Resistance in May 1889, Defense of Van in June, 1896 and the Siege of Van from April 19 to May 6, 1915.
1896 and Empire
This 3 * 3 kneeling bow continued more than 250 years until 1896 when Korean Empire declared independence as a result of 1st Japan-Sino war.
Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.
In 1887, King Fata-a-iki, who reigned from 1887 to 1896, offered to cede sovereignty to the British Empire, fearing the consequences of annexation by a less benevolent colonial power.
Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire, on February 2, 1896.
The first " adoptee " was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ( b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este ), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.
Later in 1896 the town relocated 1 mile inland and was renamed Empire for the Santa Fe Railroad.
Empire City was established and was the county seat of government until 1896.
In his position as resident minister in Korea, he negotiated the Komura-Weber Memorandum in May 1896 with his Russian counterpart Karl Ivanovich Weber, allowing joint interference into Korean internal affairs by the Empire of Japan and the Empire of Russia.
In 1896, he concluded the Li – Lobanov Treaty with Li Hongzhang of the Qing Empire.
Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke ( September 15, 1834 – April 28, 1896 ) was a German historian, political writer and National Liberal member of the Reichstag during the time of the German Empire.
In 1896, the founders of these companies pooled their resources and bought factory equipment for the production of woollen cloth from the German Empire.
Surveying began in 1896, and in spite of local protests, the Korean Empire gave Japan the right to build the line in 1898 .< ref name =" donga-hist "> Construction of the Gyeongbu Line started on August 20, 1901, with a ceremony at Yeongdeungpo, Seoul.
Arthur Kenneth Chesterton MC ( 1896 – 16 August 1973 ) was a far right-wing politician and journalist who helped found right-wing organisations in Britain, primarily in opposition to the break-up of the British Empire, and later adopting a broader anti-immigration stance.
In 1896, France and the British Empire signed an accord recognizing each other's sphere of influence over Indochina, especially over Siam.
In 1896 he succeeded in implementing a form of universal male suffrage but made it palatable to the ruling interests of the Empire.
The first major legislation enacted in Japan was the Criminal Code of 1880, followed by the Constitution of the Empire of Japan in 1889, the Commercial Code, Criminal Procedure Act and Civil Procedure Act in 1890 and the Civil Code in 1896 and 1898.
In March 1896, the Empire Theatre played host to the first commercial theatrical performances of a projected film to a UK audience by Auguste and Louis Lumière.
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