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| 1896, June 29 |
| | | A new electoral law again doubled the electorate but still fell short of universal male suffrage and received intense criticism from the working classes. | 1 |
| | | 1897–1901 |
| | | The Borgesius ministry passed social legislation such as accident insurance, housing improvements, and compulsory education of children. | 2 |
| | | 1901, Feb. 7 |
| | | The queen married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. | 3 |
| | | 1903, April |
| | | Great railway and dock strikes were broken up by the military. | 4 |
| | | 1907, Aug. 14–21 |
| | | A Zionist conference at The Hague rejected the possibility of establishing an African colony in Uganda, first proposed in 1903, and established synthetic Zionism—arguing that a Jewish state could be established only in Israel. | 5 |
| | | 1913, Aug. 25 |
| | | An extraparliamentary cabinet formed by Cort van der Linden set out to settle the suffrage and education questions, but World War I intervened. (Universal suffrage and proportional representation were installed in 1917.) (See The Netherlands) | 6 |
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edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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