Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Kathleen Walsh was an English actress, dancer, and screenwriter. Her film career prospered after she met her future husband, film director David Lean, with whom she worked on produ…
Kay Walsh, English actress and dancer (died 2005)
Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns was a Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist who served as the fifth secretary general of NATO from 1971 to 1984, being the longest-serving officeho…
Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (died 2002)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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Victor John Surridge was an English motor-cycle racer who raced for the Rudge team. After the works Rudge factory team visited the Isle of Man TT Races for the first time, Victor S…
Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (born 1882)
Allan McLean was an Australian politician who served as the 19th Premier of Victoria, in office from 1899 to 1900. He was later elected to federal parliament, where he served as a …
Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (born 1840)
Edwin Austin Abbey was an American muralist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best kn…
Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (born 1852)
Samuel Arza Davenport was an American politician and lawyer. A Republican, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Samuel Arza Davenport, American lawyer and politician (born 1843)
Ioryi Mucitano, nicknamed Kasapcheto ("Butcher"), was an Ottoman-born Aromanian revolutionary during the Macedonian Struggle. He was the first leader of the first Aromanian band of…
Ioryi Mucitano, Aromanian revolutionary
Robert Lee Caruthers, nicknamed "Parisian Bob", was an American right-handed pitcher and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the St. Louis Browns and Br…
Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and umpire (born 1864)
Patrick Francis Moran was a prelate of the Catholic Church and the third Archbishop of Sydney and the first cardinal appointed from Australia.
Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (born 1830)
Asaf Jah VI, also known as Sir Mir Mahboob Ali Khan Siddiqi, was the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad. He ruled Hyderabad State, one of the princely states of India, between 1869 and 1911.
Mahboob Ali Khan, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State (born 1866)
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
William Pierce Frye was an American politician from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of …
William P. Frye, American lawyer and politician (born 1830)
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