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Events relating to asia
Henry Wood sets 'Rule Britannia' in his Fantasia on British Sea Songs, providing a traditional favourite for the last night of the Proms
The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War
Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait
The Treaty of Portsmouth gives Japan control of Port Arthur and much of the Liaotung Peninsula
Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka
The Young Turks of Salonika organize a successful uprising against the autocracy of the Ottoman sultan
The Burman Oil Company, developing a concession granted in 1901 to William Knox D'Arcy, discovers oil in Iran
The last Manchu emperor, Puyi, is placed on the throne at the age of two on the death of his uncle, the Guanxu emperor
The Empress Dowager Cixi dies the day after selecting the infant Puyi for the Chinese throne
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts
Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule")
Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester
Sun Yatsen and others merge several smaller Chinese political groups into the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party
Japan annexes Korea as a colony, to be controlled by a Japanese governor-general
Ten men and two women establish the first kibbutz, at Degania in Palestine
An uprising in the city of Wuchang is the first major event in the rapidly developing Chinese revolution
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India
Bernard Leach discovers his skill and future craft at a raku party in Japan, where each guest is invited to throw a pot
A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president
The abdication of the child emperor Puyi brings to an end the Qing dynasty
Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali
Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya
Tibet declares its independence after the fall of the Qing dynasty and the end of imperial China
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans
