Hindus in Bengal have launched a massive…
1911 CE
Hindus in Bengal have launched a massive antipartition campaign against the British, using constitutional methods as well as terrorism spearheaded by revolutionaries.
The partition of Bengal is annulled in 1911.
The province of Eastern Bengal and Assam is dissolved, Bengal proper is reunited, Assam is separated, and a new province of Bihar and Orissa is created.
Although the reunited Bengal province has a small Muslim majority, ambitious Muslims in the province are disgruntled and look to the Muslim League for better prospects.
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Australia’s newly created Northern Territory joins Australia in 1911.
In 1911, there are reportedly 87 licensed opium dens in Shanghai.
Empress Cixi’s reforms open the path for more radical political transformations.
Sun Yat-Sen, founder of the Kuomintang, foments a revolution against the Manchu rulers.
The Wuchang uprising in Central China, led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in October of 1911, topples the hoary Manchu Dynasty and ends more than three millenia of Chinese monarchy with the Jan. 1, 1912 launch of the Republic of China with Sun Yat-sen as president.
China's early attempts at eradication create a demand for illicit morphine and opium.
As Szechwan's opium production declines, Shanghai's licensed syndicates, notably the Green Gang, begin importing morphine and heroin from Europe.
Moreover, this localized suppression in Szechwan stimulates both the spread of cultivation to other provinces and smuggling of illicit opiates into China.
In 1911, there are reportedly 87 licensed opium dens in Shanghai.
One Professor Sikowsky, a Russian neurologist, "proves" that Jews use Christian blood for ritual purposes.
In the most infamous recurrence of the blood libel in modern times, the tsarist government, with church complicity, seeks unsuccessfully to convict Mendel Beilis, a Jewish bookkeeper in Odessa accused of ritual murder in 1911.
A Christian boy had been found dead near a brick factory in which Beilis worked; the only evidence is the word of a drunken couple who claim they had seen a man with a black beard walking with the child.
The Russian government actively takes up the case after the assassination in Kiev, on September 14, 1911, of conservative statesman P. A. Stolypin by a Jewish revolutionist, Dmitry Bogrov.
In The Jews and Modern Capitalism, he traces capitalist acquisitiveness and success to the spread and rise of Jews in Central and Northern Europe—directly contradicting Weber's famous thesis relating it to Protestantism.
Jews and liberals find it crudely anti-Semitic, anti-Semites and conservatives consider it too pro-Semitic, and scholars find its sources (if given) questionable and without research merit.
Unfortunately for the Jews, Sombart's book has a popular impact, providing the economic, racial, philosophical and historical "evidence" for the distorted portrait of the stereotypical crafty Jewish capitalist that has begun to gain wider acceptance in Europe.
Britain, Russia and France agree to oppose German naval expansion in the Mediterranean.
Dragutin Dimitrijevic is a founding member and inspirational leader of the nationalistic Serbian secret society Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (“Union or Death”), better known as the Black Hand, which from its inception in 1911 seeks to create a Greater Serbia through the use of violence.
A professor of tactics at the military academy in Belgrade, he exerts considerable influence over his students, and he fosters Serbian nationalistic activity abroad.
The society's members are primarily army officers with some government officials.
Operating from Belgrade, it conducts propaganda campaigns, organizes armed bands in Macedonia, and establishes a network of revolutionary cells throughout Bosnia.
Within Serbia, it dominates the army and wields tremendous influence over the government by terrorizing officials.
Prime Minister Staliapin of Russia is assassinated by a police double agent in 1911.
Grigori Rasputin gains influence over the royal family.
George V, at his 1911 coronation in Delhi, announces the restoration of Bengal as a single unit following its unpopular partition and transfer of the capital under the Raj from Calcutta to the former Mughal imperial capital of New Delhi.
Britain, Russia and France agree to oppose German naval expansion in the Mediterranean.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in The State and The Revolution, advocates a party of professional revolutionaries.
Carl Jung and Alfred Adler break with Sigmund Freud, disagreeing with his emphasis on the sexual basis of psychological disorders.
Adler concentrates on the psychology surrounding the human tendencies to perfectionism; Jung develops the theory of the collective unconscious.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry is established in 1911.
Under the direction of German chemist, it will soon become a leading research center.
Britain makes a large loan to Persia, reportedly collateralized with Persia’s opium reserves.
By 1911, Danes annually consume 82 pounds of sugar per capita.
The 1911 death rate for diabetes in Demnark is 8 per 100,000.
Palestinian journalist Najib Nassar publishes the first book in Arabic on Zionism, entitled Zionism: Its History, Objectives and Importance, in January 1911.
The following month, the Palestinian newspaper Filastin begins addressing its readers as "Palestinians" and warns them about the consequences of Zionist colonization.
Montenegro, preparing to grab Albanian-populated lands for itself, supports a 1911 uprising by the mountain tribes against the Young Turks regime that grows into a widespread revolt.
Unable to control the Albanians by force, the Ottoman government grants concessions on schools, military recruitment, and taxation and sanctions the use of the Latin script for the Albanian language.
The government refuses, however, to unite the four Albanian-inhabited vilayets.