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HMS Dreadnought (1906)
10 Feb 1906 — A new battleship is launched at Portsmouth with ten 12-inch guns and turbine engines. HMS Dreadnought outclasses every older battleship, including Britain’s own. With the existing fleets suddenly less formidable, the naval race begins again from almost level—the opening Tirpitz believed he had found.
When 10 Feb 1906 Type Turning point Chapter Alliance system before WWI (chapter 1 of WWI)Atlas The Great War, 1871–1923 TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0 Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.
The displayed state is iss 1907. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.
reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 1907 Ottoman footprint · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1885–1907 · vector: 1885–1910 · vector: 1885–1911 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1910 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1907 · vector: 1900–1912 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1907 · vector: 1905–1910 · vector: 1905–1911 · vector: 1905–1912 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921
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