Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Ida Frances Hunt Udall was an American diarist, homesteader, and teacher in territorial Utah and Arizona. A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Udal…
Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (born 1858)
John Labatt was a Canadian businessman and brewer. Labatt took charge of Labatt Brewing Company, formally known as Labatt and Company, after his father's death in 1866. Labatt help…
John Labatt, Canadian businessman (born 1838)
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. Before 1903, he was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late-…
Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (born 1872)
Clara Helene Immerwahr was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a paci…
Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (born 1870)
François Faber was a Luxembourgish racing cyclist. He was born in France. He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stag…
François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (born 1887)
Anthony Frederick Wilding, also known as Tony Wilding, was a New Zealand world No. 1 tennis player and soldier who was killed in action during World War I. Considered the world's f…
Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (born 1883)
John Kirkpatrick, commonly known as John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance during the Gallipoli campaign – the Allied attempt to capture Const…
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (born 1892)
Leonid Nikolaevich Gobyato was a lieutenant-general in the Imperial Russian Army and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar.
Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (born 1875)
Charles Reed Bishop was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist in Hawaii. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he sailed to Hawaii in 1846 at the age of 24, and made his…
Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)
Victor Thomas Trumper was an Australian professional cricketer. A right-handed batter and a right arm medium pace bowler, Trumper is generally regarded as one of the greatest batte…
Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (born 1877)
Pte. John Condon was an Irish soldier born in Waterford City. He was mistakenly believed to have been the youngest Allied soldier killed during the First World War, at the age of 1…
John Condon, Irish-English soldier (born 1896)
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican army general and politician who was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911.…
Porfirio Díaz, Mexican general and politician, 29th President of Mexico (born 1830)
Hendrik Willem Mesdag was a Dutch marine painter.
Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (born 1831)
Ellen Gould White was an American author, and was both the prophet and a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Along with other Adventist leaders, such as Joseph Bates an…
Ellen G. White, American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church(born 1827)
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard t…
Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (born 1827)
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.
James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (born 1837)
Sir John William Downer, KCMG, KC was an Australian politician who served two terms as Premier of South Australia, from 1885 to 1887 and again from 1892 to 1893. He later entered f…
John Downer, Australian politician, 16th premier of South Australia (born 1843)
Jeanne de la Montagnie Lozier was an American physician and educator from New York City. She worked as an instructor of languages and literature in Hillsdale College from the age o…
Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier, American physician (born 1841)
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical c…
Henry Moseley, English physicist and engineer (born 1887)
Tevfik Fikret was the pseudonym of Mehmed Tevfik, an Ottoman educator and poet, who is considered the founder of the modern school of Turkish poetry.
Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (born 1867)
Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or…
Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)
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 areas of conflict included …
World War I: Hit by ground fire, French aviation pioneer Roland Garros (pictured) landed his aircraft behind enemy lines
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and …
The Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in
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 areas of conflict included …
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed a