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time to kick off the next turn

next turn year 1913 [hmm wonder who is gonna get shot next year]

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1913 January 1 – The British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films.

January 5 – First Balkan War – Battle of Lemnos: Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war.

January 12 (January 25 Old Style) – Bolshevik activist Josef Dzhugashvili first publishes an article,[1] under the pseudonym Stalin, which he adopts hereafter.[2] At this time he, Adolf Hitler and Josip Broz Tito are simultaneously resident in Vienna.[3]

January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland.[4]

January 23 – 1913 Tasmanian state election: The Commonwealth Liberal Party candidate, Albert Solomon, is elected premier.

January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power.

January 30 – The British House of Lords rejects an Irish Home Rule Bill.

Ismail Enver February[edit] Main article: February 1913 February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station.

February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes on all sources of income, not just some.

February 9 – Mexican Revolution: "La Decena Trágica", the rebellion of some military chiefs against the President Francisco I. Madero, begins.[5]

February 13 – Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declares the independence of Tibet from Qing dynasty China.

February 18 – Mexican Revolution: President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are forced to resign. Pedro Lascuráin serves as President for less than an hour, before General Victoriano Huerta, leader of the coup, takes office.[5]

February 22 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez are assassinated.[5]

February 23 – Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police, the Okhrana, in Petrograd, and exiled to Siberia.[6]

February 1: New York's Grand Central Terminal as rebuilt. March[edit] Main article: March 1913 March The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.

Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament, and rules as a dictator.

c. March 1 – British steamship Calvados disappears in the Sea of Marmara, with 200 on board.[7][8]

March 3 – The Woman suffrage parade of 1913 takes place in Washington, D.C. led by Inez Milholland on horseback.

March 4 Woodrow Wilson is sworn in, as the 28th President of the United States. The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Labor are established, by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey form part of the Department of Commerce.

March 4: Wilson sworn in as the 28th president of the United States.

March 4–6 – First Balkan War – Battle of Bizani: Forces of the Kingdom of Greece capture the forts of Bizani (covering the approaches to Ioannina) from the Ottoman Empire.

March 7 – British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbour.[9]

March 12 – Australia begins building the new federal capital of Canberra.

March 13 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa returns to Mexico, from his self-imposed exile in the United States.

March 17 – The Military Aviation Academy (Escuela de Aviación Militar) is founded in Uruguay, to become the Military Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Militar) on 4 December 1952 (the Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) will grow from this foundation).

March 18 – George I of Greece is assassinated after 50 years on the throne; he is succeeded by his son Constantine.

March 20 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese nationalist party (Kuomintang), is wounded in an assassination attempt, and dies two days later.

March 23 – Supporters of Phan Xích Long begin a revolt against colonial rule in French Indochina.

March 25 – The Great Dayton Flood, after four days of rain in the Miami Valley, kills over 360 and destroys 20,000 homes (chiefly in Dayton, Ohio). March 26

Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza announces his Plan of Guadalupe, and begins his rebellion against Victoriano Huerta's government, as head of the Constitutionals.

March 12: Australia begins building the new capital of Canberra.

April[edit] Main article: April 1913 April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel is published.

April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.

April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.

April 21 – Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the River Clyde.

April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world on this date, and for more than a decade after.

other things

the Thermopylae line repels the ottomans again [its gonna take a lot more than cannons]

Hungary surrenders to Austria