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Major Events July 5 - Chen Kai, leader of the Tiandihui in Guangdong Province, revolted in Foshan. July 5 - China's "Shanghai Anglo-French and American Land Leases Charter" was announced.

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Born April 29 - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. October 16 – Kautsky, German socialist activist. (Died 1938) October 16th - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer. October 20th – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet. (Died 1891) October 27 - William Alexander Smith, British knight. Founder of the Young Boys for Christ. (Died 1914) November 8 - Rydberg, Swedish physicist. November 21 – Benedict XV, Pope.

(Died in 1922)

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Death July 7 - Ohm, German physicist, died in Munich (born in 1787)