Franco-Russian Alliance
1893
The French Third Republic and the Russian autocracy - two states with nearly nothing in common except resentment of Germany - signed a secret military convention pledging mutual support against any Triple Alliance attack. Bismarck had warned against exactly this. Europe's alliance blocks had set, and the countdown to a general war had quietly begun.
In context
Also in 1893 (5 other events on record)
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1891: Russian Famine
- After: June 24, 1894: Dreyfus Arrested
Before and after in Politics
- Before: July 6, 1892: Homestead Strike
- After: May 11, 1894: Pullman Strike
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.