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Events relating to democracy
An uprising in the city of Wuchang is the first major event in the rapidly developing Chinese revolution
Former president Theodore Roosevelt campaigns against President Taft for the Republican nomination
UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year
At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader
Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy
The Social Democrats become the largest group in Germany's Reichstag
Electoral reform is introduced in Argentina, with universal male suffrage and a secret ballot
William Howard Taft defeats Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican convention to win the nomination
Theodore Roosevelt's followers form a rival party to the Republicans, soon to be known as the Bull Moose party
The South African National Native Congress (subsequently the ANC, African National Congress) is set up in Cape Province
Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland
Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles
A suffragette, Emily Davison, dies after throwing herself under the king's horse in the Derby at Epsom
The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster
J.B.M. Hertzog founds the National Party in South Africa to represent Afrikaner interests
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery
British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster
Benito Mussolini, advocating Italian entry into the war on the side of the Allies, is expelled from the Socialist party
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa
The occupation of the General Post Office in Dublin marks the beginning of the Easter Rising
Eamon de Valera comes to prominence as one of the republican leaders in the Easter Rising
The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives
The Petrograd Soviet demands drastic reforms in return for supporting the proposed Provisional Government in Russia
Russian opinion polarizes, with support growing for left-wing Bolsheviks and right-wing Kadets
The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly
