Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
The Johnson–Jeffries riots were a series of race riots that occurred throughout the United States after African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeated white boxer James J. Jeffries i…
The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the…
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as partially responsible for laying the …
In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague…
John Robertson Duigan MC was an Australian pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft.
John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a state that spanned much of Southeastern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century…
The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. The de…
The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is used in the United States to provide a measure of the relative seriousness of burning conditions and threat of wildfires.
Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the…
George Owen Squier was an American general, scientist, and inventor best known for inventing and popularizing what today is called Muzak.
In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first system to allow multiplexing of telephone…
The Duke of York's Picture House is an art house cinema in Brighton, England, which lays claim to being the oldest cinema in continuous use in Britain. According to cinema historia…
The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty (Korean: 한일병합조약), was made by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire on 22 Aug…
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially…
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition a…
Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171…
On October 1, 1910, union members belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers (IW) detonated explosives they placed in the Los Angeles Times Bu…
A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
The 5 October 1910 Revolution was the overthrow of the centuries-old Portuguese monarchy and its replacement by the First Portuguese Republic. It was the result of a coup d'état or…
In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Greek statesman and leader of the Greek national liberation movement. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Venizelos served as prime minister of…
Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
Archibald Hoxsey was an American aviator who worked for the Wright brothers.
Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
Claude Grahame-White was an English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race.
English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship that was primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used fo…
British ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched.
Clarence Berton Roueché Jr. was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), Th…
Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (died 1994)
Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza was a Greek politician, leader of the New Democracy party (1981–1984), member of parliament, and author.
Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence (died 1990)
The America was a non-rigid airship built by Louis Mutin Godard in France in 1906 for the journalist Walter Wellman's attempt to reach the North Pole by air. Wellman first conceive…
Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
HMS Niobe was a ship of the Diadem class of protected cruisers in the Royal Navy. She served in the Boer War and was then given to Canada as the second ship of the newly created Na…
HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Hawley Harvey Crippen, colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for…
Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger …
Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (died 1999)
Helenio Herrera Gavilán was an Argentine and naturalised French football player and manager. He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter i…
Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (died 1997)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician (died 1961)