Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist. He expounded a modern Pagan new religious movement known as …
Guido von List, Austrian-German journalist, author, and poet (born 1848)
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist.
Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (born 1853)
Amado Nervo also known as Juan Crisóstomo Ruiz de Nervo, was a Mexican poet, journalist and educator. He also acted as Mexican Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay. His poetry was k…
Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (born 1870)
Lida Peyton "Eliza" Pollock was an American archer who competed in the early twentieth century. She won two bronze medals in Archery at the 1904 Summer Olympics in Missouri in the …
Eliza Pollock, American archer (born 1840)
Madam C. J. Walker, Mrs. Charles Joseph Walker upon her third marriage, was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. Walker is recorded as the f…
Madam C
Robert Bacon was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodo…
Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (born 1860)
Peter Johnson Sturholdt was an American boxer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Sturholdt was born in Red Wing, Minnesota. In 1904, he finished fourth in the lightweight cl…
Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (born 1885)
Kandukuri Veeresalingam was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India, current Andhra Pradesh. He was considered as the Father of the Telugu Renaissanc…
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (born 1848)
Cora Agnes Benneson was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England. Benneson was raised in Quincy, Illinois, to paren…
Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (born 1851)
José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, O.F.S. was a Venezuelan physician and active member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, he became a highly renown…
José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (born 1864)
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, was a British physicist and hereditary peer who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904 for his discovery of argon.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projecti…
Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
Spyridon Lambros or Lampros was a Greek history professor and briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the National Schism.
Spyridon Lambros, Greek historian and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1851)
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy.
Edward Poynter, English painter and illustrator (born 1836)
David William Gregory was an Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Gregory was the first Australian national cricket captain, leading the side for the first three recognise…
Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (born 1845)
Ruggero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that rem…
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer and educator (born 1857)
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late-19th century and became one of the r…
Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie…
Joseph Emm Seagram was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses.
Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (born 1841)
Gregor MacGregor was a former Scotland international cricketer and Scotland international rugby union player. He also played for the England international cricket team.
Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (born 1869)
Hugh Laurence Doherty was a British tennis player and the younger brother of tennis player Reginald Doherty. He was a six-time Grand Slam champion and a double Olympic Gold medalis…
Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (born 1875)
Felix Adolf Schmal was an Austrian fencer and racing cyclist. He was born in Dortmund and died in Salzburg. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (born 1872)
The Polish–Soviet War was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, following World War I and the Russian Revolution…
Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of T…
The May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Peking
Sir Harry Hands was a British colonial politician, who served from 1915 to 1918 as mayor of Cape Town, South Africa. He is credited with instituting the first practice in the world…
Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of