Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Edward Burd Grubb Jr. was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War. He served in three regiments and commanded two of them. In recognition of his ser…
Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (born 1841)
Tobias Michael Carel Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at th…
Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1838)
John Milne was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.
John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (born 1850)
Ferenc Pfaff was a Hungarian chief architect of the MÁV and professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Ferenc Pfaff, Hungarian architect and academic, designed Zagreb Central Station (born 1851)
Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and …
William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)
Johannes Linnankoski was a Finnish author and playwright, who mainly influenced writing in the Golden Age of Finnish Art. His most famous work is the romance novel, The Song of the…
Johannes Linnankoski, Finnish author (born 1869)
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designe…
The Woolworth Building in New York City officially opened; at the time, it was the tallest building in the world, with a
Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film. Raja Harishchandra feat…
Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film, was released
The 1913 Ipswich Mills strike was a labor strike involving textile workers in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. The strike began on April 22 and ended in defeat for the strike…
During a labor strike in Ipswich, Massachusetts, police opened fire into a crowd of strikers, killing one and injuring s
The Second Balkan War was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Bulgaria and its former Balkan League allies, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece, who were later joined by Romania and…
Second Balkan War: The Serbian Army began the Siege of Vidin, which they abandoned six days later when an armistice…
The Second Balkan War was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Bulgaria and its former Balkan League allies, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece, who were later joined by Romania and…
While on a campaign in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered a cholera outbreak that led to around 1,600 deaths.
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of hi…
The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircra
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia was the only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm II, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Through her father, Victoria Louise was a gr…
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great so
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes co…
During the premiere of the ballet Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris,
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison (pictured), an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampl
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by a hor
Wheatland is the second-largest city by population in Yuba County, California, United States. The population was 3,712 at the 2020 census, up from 3,456 at the 2010 census. Wheatla…
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor…
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. It is the 26th-m…
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strik
During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union army, Federal a…
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of
Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 136 at the 2020 census, up from 24 at the 2010 census. The elevation …
The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological…
Harriet Quimby was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1…
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel
The Cunard Line is a British shipping company and an international cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corpor…
The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City
Novarupta is a volcano located on the Alaska Peninsula on a slope of Trident Volcano in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage. Novarupt…
The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins
Emperor Meiji was Emperor of Japan from 30 January 1867 until his death in 1912. The Meiji Restoration proclaimed the Empire of Japan in 1868, beginning the Meiji era. During his r…
Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.