Explore 1013 historical events from 1910–1919.
Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his pe…
Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (died 1984)
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-midd…
Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1977)
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in part…
Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
Maurice Copeland was an American actor. He had supporting roles in films such as Arthur, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Trading Places.
Maurice Copeland, American actor (died 1985)
Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He …
Erwin Wilhelm Müller, German physicist and academic (died 1977)
Wilbert Vere Awdry, often credited as Rev. W. Awdry, was an English Anglican priest, railway enthusiast, and children's author. He was the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and sev…
Wilbert Awdry, English author, created The Railway Series, the basis for Thomas the Tank Engine (died 1997)
Gail Patrick was an American film actress and television producer. Often cast as the bad girl or the other woman, she appeared in more than 60 feature films between 1932 and 1948, …
Gail Patrick, American actress (died 1980)
Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.
Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (born 1862)
René Vallon was an early French aviator. Born in Paris, he travelled to Shanghai, China, in 1911 with a group of aviation enthusiasts to promote aircraft sales. He achieved the fir…
René Vallon, French aviator (born 1880)
Frederick August Otto Schwarz was a German-born American toy retailer known for founding FAO Schwarz.
Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (born 1836)
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish astronomer. At the Harvard College Observatory, she contributed to the photographic classification of stellar spectra, helping to de…
Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (born 1857)
Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with his eponymous enterprise, which was purch…
Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (born 1836)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who went by the name Wentworth, was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in abolitionism in the …
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American abolitionist (born 1823)
Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism …
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1860)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen …
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Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who twice served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular…
Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)
James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japane…
James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (born 1815)
The Second Guangzhou (Canton) Uprising, known in Chinese as the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising or the Guangzhou Xinhai Uprising, was a failed uprising took place in China led by Huan…
The Second Canton Uprising took place but was suppressed in Guangzhou, China
Louisa Edith Church Maryon was an English sculptor. Along with Ita Wegman, she belonged to the innermost circle of founders of anthroposophy and those around Rudolf Steiner.
Edith Maryon's statuette The Dance of Anitra (pictured), one of the few of her works known to survive in private hands,
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: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents
Parks Canada is the agency of the Government of Canada which manages the country's 37 National Parks, 11 national park reserves, 5 National Marine Conservation Areas, 171 National …
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911. Seiz…
Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco I
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen …
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International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 count…
The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York