First successful self-loading rifle (Mondragon)
1908 · Event
Mexican general Manuel Mondragon's rifle becomes the first self-loading (semi-automatic) service rifle adopted by any army.
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Around 1908
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)