I9H-I9 I 3] Chronology of Events 475 



191 1 They occupy Tabriz and advance on Teheran, where they deliver 

 an ultimatum to the Mejliss, which refuses to comply. 



Grey publicly approves the Russian action. 



Great massacre at Tabriz by the Russians, with public executions 

 under revolting circumstances. 



It is announced that the seat of Government in India is to be moved 

 to Delhi. 



China declares itself a Republic. 



1912 Haldane is sent on a secret mission to Berlin with a view to allay- 

 ing Liberal apprehension of a coming war and appeasing Mohamme- 

 dan anger in India. 



Grey receives the Garter. 



Kitchener deals autocratically with Egypt, favouring the Italians 

 in the war. 



The Italians occupy Rhodes and the TLgeian Islands. They block- 

 ade the Dardanelles, causing great inconvenience to neutral shipping. 



Kitchener demands English reinforcements at Cairo. 



Asquith, Churchill, and Kitchener meet at Malta where they con- 

 cert measures in case of a war with Germany. 



An agreement is come to with France that in case of war with Ger- 

 many the French fleet shall police the Mediterranean, the English fleet 

 guarding the North Seas. 



Southern Morocco rises against the French, Mulai Hafiz abdi- 

 cates. 



A reported plot to assassinate Grey and Kitchener. 



Sazonoff, the Russian Ambassador, Grey, and Kitchener meet King 

 George at Balmoral. 



8th Oct. — Montenegro declares war on Turkey and is followed by 

 the other Balkan states. 



Turkey makes peace with Italy at Ouchy, ceding the province of 

 Tripoli. 



Servia and Bulgaria join with Greece in an attack on Turkey. 



The Turkish army relying on asurances given to Kiamil, the Vizier, 

 by Lowther, that the prosecution of war will be prevented by the Pow- 

 ers delays mobilization, and, taken unprepared, is defeated by the Bul- 

 garians outside Adrianople, its able commander, Shevket Pasha, hav- 

 ing been replaced by Nazim Pasha. 



The Bulgarians threaten the Chatalja lines in front of Constanti- 

 nople. 



Grey invites a Peace Conference of Ambassadors. 



Poincare speaks publicly at Paris of asserting French rights of in- 

 tervention in Syria. 



A bomb is dropped on the Viceregal procession at Delhi injuring 

 Hardinge, the new Viceroy. 



The Palace of Peace opened at the Hague. 



1913 1st Jan. — Acting under advice given by the English and Russian 

 Embassies, Kiamil summons a Grand Council of the Empire, which 

 agrees to cede Adrianople to Bulgaria, but the Turkish army refuses 



