Timeline Friday 8 April 1904

Events on Friday 8 April 1904 2

• 1904 The Entente Cordiale Eight hundred years, set aside Britain and France settle their colonial quarrels — France gets a free hand in Morocco, Britain in Egypt, and Newfoundland fishing rights and Siam are tidied up. It is not an alliance and contains no military commitment, but it ends centuries of enmity and leaves Germany facing the possibility that its two western rivals will not fight each other. Everything about 1914 follows from which way the great powers had paired off, and this is where the pairing starts.
• 1904 The Entente Cordiale London, United Kingdom Britain and France settled their colonial quarrels. Not an alliance, but the end of centuries of enmity — and the beginning of staff talks about a European war.