MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · November 7
THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 7
November 7 in history
1914 — Tsingtao taken
7 Nov 1914 — Japan, entering the World War on the Allied side, seizes Germany’s Shandong colony — and means to keep it. When Versailles confirms the transfer in 1919, it is this port, not any battlefield, that brings Chinese students into the streets.
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1917 — October Revolution
7 Nov 1917 — Lenin’s Bolsheviks seize the Winter Palace almost bloodlessly, on the promise of “peace, land, bread.” Russia sues for armistice within weeks — watch this map turn revolution-red and the Eastern Front dissolve.
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1931 — The Chinese Soviet Republic
7 Nov 1931 — In a Hakka market town the CCP proclaims a state: currency, land law, conscription — three million people under red administration. Land redistribution wins the poor; the terror against “rich peasants” and internal enemies (the Futian purges) is part of the record too.
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