October 1901(1) - Emir of Afghanistan Abdur Rahman Khan died
Emir of Afghanistan Abdur Rahman Khan died in Kabul. He was appointed emir by the British in 1880 and helped his country to gain a strong position as a "buffer state". During his reign, the so-called "Durand Line" was defined as the border between Afghanistan and British India and is also today the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the establishment of the Milk Recycling Center, a "milk war" breaks out in Berlin. With the Ueberlingen - Friedrichshafen line, the last section of the so-called ring on Lake Constance in Germany opens. The new US President Theodore Roosevelt provoked a wave of protests in his Republican Party when he gave Democrats a number of top government positions. The Union of Progressive Women's Associations is meeting in the German Reichstag building in Berlin. German women's rights activist Minna Kauer, who belongs to the left wing of the bourgeois women's movement, presides. In 1895, she participated in the founding of the magazine "Women's Movement". The second chairperson is pacifist and women's rights activist Anita Augspurg, who also belongs to the left wing. Near the city of Newport (the American state of Rhode Island), the American yacht "Columbia" wins the America's Cup. According to the decree of the leader of the Boers, Louis Both, anyone who bought goods that belonged to the Boers but had been confiscated by the British faced the death penalty. King Karl of Romania arrives in Vienna with a visit to the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Joseph I. The negotiations will concern the situation in South-Eastern Europe. In Copenhagen, the session of the Danish parliament opens with the throne speech of King Christian IX. As future goals, the monarch emphasizes the preservation of the foreign political independence of his country, as well as the development of political freedoms and the increase in the welfare of the population. The Portuguese government sends about 850 troops to Lourenco Marques (now part of Mozambique). Soldiers serve the further consolidation of Portuguese colonial possessions. According to reports from Naples, the health of people under quarantine and suffering from the plague is improving. No new cases of plague have been detected. In September, several cases of plague were detected in the southern Italian city. The president of the province of Brandenburg, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, refuses to inform Kaiser Wilhelm II about the re-election of Gustav Kaufman as mayor of Berlin. The non-confirmation of the election remains in effect. In the oil metropolis of Baku, a big fire broke out again. In the Bibi Eibat drilling area, an oil fountain erupted from underground. Even torrential downpours cannot extinguish it. At the 14th general assembly of the Evangelical Union in Breslau (now Wroclaw), the significant growth of Catholicism in the Polish regions of Prussia in recent decades is noted. The Evangelical Union is an association founded in 1886 by the German theologian Willibald Beischlag to protect "German-Protestant interests" and "strengthen evangelical consciousness." The Egyptian officer and politician Ahmad Urabi Pasha, with the permission of the British government, returns from exile on the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), after almost twenty years of exile. Urabi Pasha - leader of the Egyptian national movement, led a rebellion against Ottoman and British rule in 1881, but was exiled after the defeat at At Tall Al-Kabir. As part of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, Great Britain extends martial law to port cities in the Cape Colony. The Italian Ministry of Culture in Rome issues a decree on the use of churches. He forbids any political activities in churches. Buildings must be used only for religious purposes or related "cult acts". The council of university professors in the city of Kharkiv in tsarist Russia advocates the admission of women to study at all faculties. She calls on the Russian Ministry of Education in St. Petersburg to take appropriate measures.
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