Virginia Green, Author at SHINE on Salem

Author: Virginia Green

Salem in 1912

World Events

The Manchu Qing dynasty ends after 268 years, the Republic of China is proclaimed and officially led by Sun Yat-Sen’s Kuomintang political party. (His wife is one of four Chang sisters educated in U.S.)
Emperor Meiji of Japan dies, succeeded by his son, Emperor Taisho.

Salem in 1911

World Events

The Mexican Revolution, led by Madero and Pancho Villa, ends as Porfirio Diaz resigns and flees to France. Political conflict continued until the adoption of a Constitution in 1917 .
Physician, writer and philosopher Sun-Tat-Sun (known afterward as the Father of the Nation) is elected Provisional President of a democratic government in China as Manchu dynasty falls.

Salem in 1910

World Events

George V becomes King of Great Britain and Ireland on the death of his father, Edward VII, Victoria’s son.
Asia: Slavery is abolished in China. The Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty gives Japan control over that country and the Korean Emperor abdicates.

Salem in 1909

World Events

China gives Japan railway concessions in Manchuria. Ito Hirofumi, four times Prime Minister in Japan and Resident General of Korea, is assassinated in the Harbin Railway Station in Manchuria.
Albert I succeeded his father, Leopold II, as ruler of Belgium.

Salem in 1908

World Events

Japanese emigration to U.S. is forbidden under terms of the “Gentlemen’s Agreement” by administration officials of Japan and United States, easing the fear that a legal treaty against Japanese might cause hostilities
Sentiment against Chinese labor in America grows as part of the fear that cheap Asian labor was taking America jobs.

Salem in 1907

World Events

Elections to the new Parliament in Finland are the first in the world with women candidates as well as the first with universal suffrage.
The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed in St. Petersburg, leading to the Triple Entente that includes France.

Salem in 1906

World Events

The All-India Muslim League is founded as a political party to advance the creation of an independent Pakistan.
Mt Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. Funds that were to be used for holding the 1908 summer Olympic games there were diverted to reconstructing the city.

Salem in 1905

World Events

The Trans-Siberian Railway opens with travel between Moscow and the furtherest far-eastern outposts of Russia.
The “Bloody Sunday” massacre of peaceful protestors in front of Winter Palace in St. Petersburg inspired the unsuccessful revolt later that year and is the forerunner of the 1917 Russian revolution.

Spring Valley Church, Brush College Road in West Salem

This area north of West Salem was an important part of the early Salem settlements, close family ties and agricultural history unites these two communities. The old Spring Valley Presbyterian Church was erected by volunteer labor in 1859, the lumber transported by boat to the town of Lincoln on the Willamette River...

Salem in 1904

World Events

A surprise attack at Port Arthur in Manchuria by Japanese navy destroys Russian fleet and begins war with Japan. (Co-incidentally,”Madame Butterfly” opera debuts at La Scala in Milan this year.)
Theodore Roosevelt is elected as President.