Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Edward Daly was commandant of Dublin's 1st Battalion of the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising of 1916. He was the youngest man to hold that rank and the youngest execu…
Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (born 1891)
John (Jack) Murray was an Australian politician who was the 23rd premier of Victoria from 1909 to 1912.
John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (born 1851)
William James Pearse was an Irish republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the rising.
Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (born 1881)
Joseph Mary Plunkett was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Repub…
Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (born 1887)
John MacBride was an Irish republican and military leader. He was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
John MacBride, executed Irish soldier and rebel (born 1865)
Maurice Raoul-Duval was a French polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (born 1866)
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer.
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (born 1873): xix
James Connolly was a Scottish-born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains …
James Connolly, executed Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (born 1868)
Seán Mac Diarmada, also known as Seán MacDermott, was an Irish republican political activist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916,…
Seán Mac Diarmada, executed Irish rebel leader (born 1883)
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and in the Un…
Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (born 1859)
Prince Boris Borisovich Golitsyn was a prominent Russian Empire physicist who invented the first electromagnetic seismograph in 1906. He was one of the founders of modern seismolog…
Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, Russian physicist and seismologist (born 1862)
Chen Qimei, courtesy name Yingshi (英士) was a Chinese revolutionary activist and key figure of the Green Gang, close political ally of Sun Yat-sen, and an early mentor of Chiang Kai…
Chen Qimei, Chinese revolutionary (born 1878)
Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first …
Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (born 1856)
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his invo…
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Irish-born British field marshal and politician, Secretary of State for War (born
Yuan Shikai was a Chinese general and statesman. As leader of the Beiyang Army, he played a decisive role in securing the abdication of the Qing court. He served as the second prov…
Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, 2nd President of the Republic of China (born 1859)
Auguste Émile Faguet was a French author and literary critic.
Émile Faguet, French author and critic (born 1847)
João Simões Lopes Neto was a Brazilian regionalist writer from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul.
João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian author (born 1865)
Max Immelmann PLM was a German World War I flying ace. He was a pioneer in fighter aviation and is often mistakenly credited with the first aerial victory using a synchronized gun,…
Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890)
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artis…
Thomas Eakins, American painter, photographer, and sculptor (born 1844)
Eunice Gibbs Allyn was an American correspondent, author, songwriter, illustrator, and painter. She intended to become a teacher, but her mother dissuaded her so she remained at ho…
Eunice Eloisae Gibbs Allyn, American correspondent, author, and poet (born 1847)
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred…
Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (born 1834)
Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist draftsman, printmaker, and painter.
Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (born 1840)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Childrens' Poet" for his dialect works and h…
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (born 1849)
Charles Algernon Fryatt was a British merchant seaman who was court martialled by the Imperial German Navy for attempting to ram a German U-boat in 1915. When his ship, the SS Brus…
Charles Fryatt, English captain (born 1872)