Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
Shinobu Hashimoto was a Japanese screenwriter, director and producer. A frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa, he wrote the scripts for critically acclaimed films such as Rashomo…
Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major theatres of war included Eu…
World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's …
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev…
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental…
Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which…
A general strike is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates. General strikes are characterised by the…
The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major theatres of war included Eu…
World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German…
Clifton K. Hillegass was the creator and publisher of CliffsNotes.
Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (died 2001)
Anthony C. "Tony" Mottola was an American jazz guitarist who released dozens of solo albums. He was born in Kearny, New Jersey, and died in Denville.
Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (died 2004)
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)
Eduard "Eddy" Christiani was a Dutch guitarist, singer, and composer. He was best known for songs like Zonnig Madeira (1938), Ouwe Taaie (1943), Op De Woelige Baren (1948), Kleine …
Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
William Jay Smith was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970.
William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (died 2015)
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major theatres of war included Eu…
World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the naval infantry service branch of the United States Armed Forces. …
Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group, is a German multinational conglomerate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Germany. The moni…
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany.
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Cong…
Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
The Mexican Revolution was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mex…
Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas as part of the…
James Barton "Mickey" Vernon was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox (1956–1957), Milwau…
Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (died 2008)
Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
Maurice Druon, French author and screenwriter (died 2009)
Graham Payn was a South African-born actor and singer, also known for being the life partner of the playwright Noël Coward. Beginning as a boy soprano, Payn later made a career as …
Graham Payn, South African-born English actor and singer (died 2005)
Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs was a French astronomer best known for his studies of galaxies.
Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French-American astronomer and academic (died 1995)
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the…
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the …
Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
The Battle of Dobro Pole, also known as the Breakthrough at Dobro Pole, was a World War I battle fought between 15 and 18 September 1918. The battle was fought in the initial stage…
World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: The Battle of Haifa takes place in present-day Israel, part of the Ottoman Empire at that time.