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1908_9 | Section: October (2):
October 1
Official launch of Henry Ford's Ford Model T automobile, the first having left the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, on September 27. The initial price is set at US$850.
Penny Post is established between the United Kingdom and United States.
October 5
Bulgaria declares its... |
1908_10 | Section: November (2):
November 3 – 1908 United States presidential election: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, 321 electoral votes to 162.
November 6 – Western bandits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia, after being surrounded by a large group of ... |
1908_11 | Section: December (2):
December 2 – Young Emperor Puyi ascends the Chinese throne at age 2.
December 16 – Construction begins on the RMS Olympic, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast.
December 23 – A hybrid solar eclipse is visible from Atlantic Ocean and is the 23rd solar eclipse of Solar Saros 140.
December 2... |
1909_0 | 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of t... |
1909_0 | Section: January (3):
January 1
Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
January 2 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
January 3 – Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
January 4 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman (d. 2008)
January 5 – Stephen Co... |
1909_1 | Section: February (3):
February 1 – George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
February 3 – Simone Weil, French philosopher (d. 1943)
February 6 – Aino Talvi, Estonian actress (d. 1992)
February 7
Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter (d. 1995)
Amedeo Guillet, Italian army officer (d. 2010)
Silvio Zava... |
1909_2 | Section: March (3):
March 4 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
March 7 – Roger Revelle, American scientist, scholar (d. 1991)
March 10 – Henrietta Buckmaster, American activist, journalist, and author (d. 1983)
March 11 – Jules Engel, American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set... |
1909_3 | Section: April (3):
April 6 – William M. Branham, American Christian minister (d. 1965)
April 7 – Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978)
April 8 – John Fante, Italian-American writer (d. 1983)
April 13
Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-born mathematician (d. 1984)
Eudora Welty, American author (d. 2001)
April 22
Rita Lev... |
1909_4 | Section: May (3):
May 1 – Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, activist (d. 1990)
May 4 – Howard Da Silva, American actor (d. 1986)
May 6 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (d. 2004)
May 7 – Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor (d. 1991)
May 10 – Maybelle Carter, American musician (d. 1978)
May 15
James Mason,... |
1909_5 | Section: June (3):
June 1 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-born Israeli philologist, Hebrew linguist (d. 1971)
June 3 – Ira D. Wallach, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2007)
June 6 – Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas (d. 1997)
June 7 – Jessica Tandy, English actress (d. 1994)
June 10 – Mary Field, Ameri... |
1909_6 | Section: July (3):
July 1 – Antonina Pirozhkova, Russian civil engineer, writer (d. 2010)
July 2 – Gil English, American professional baseball third baseman (d. 1996)
July 5
Douglas MacArthur II, American diplomat (d. 1997)
Douglas Dodds-Parker, British politician and administrator (d. 2006)
July 6
Oscar Alende, Argent... |
1909_7 | Section: August (3):
August 8
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English cricketer, politician and 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1987)
August 9
Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer, diplomat (d. 1944)
Yūji Koseki, Japanese compos... |
1909_8 | Section: September (3):
September 1 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)
September 2 – Okagi Hayashi, Japanese supercentenarian
September 6 – Michael Gordon (film director), American actor and director (d. 1993)
September 7 – Elia Kazan, Turkish-born film director (d. 2003)
September 10 – Irakli Abashidze, ... |
1909_9 | Section: October (3):
October 1
Margie Hines, American voice actress (d. 1985)
Everett Sloane, American actor (d. 1965)
October 4 – Murray Chotiner, American political consultant (d. 1974)
October 7 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
October 8 – Piotr Jaroszewicz, Polish politician, 49th Prime Ministe... |
1909_10 | Section: November (3):
November 6 – Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1990)
November 7 – Ruby Hurley, American civil rights activist (d. 1980)
November 9 – Kay Thompson, American author, actress (d. 1998)
November 10 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
November 13 ... |
1909_11 | Section: December (3):
December 2 – Marion Dönhoff, German journalist (d. 2002)
December 3 – Charlotte Kretschmann, German supercentenarian (d. 2024)
December 5 – Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player (d. 2016)
December 7 – Arch Oboler, American actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and direct... |
1910_0 | 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s ... |
1910_0 | Section: January (2):
January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.
January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan becomes a protectorate of the British Empire.
January 11 – ... |
1910_1 | Section: February (2):
February 1 – A coal mine explosion at the Browder Coal Company in Drakesboro, Kentucky kills 34 miners.
February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.
February 5 – A coal mine explosion at the Jefferson Clearfield Coal Co... |
1910_2 | Section: March (2):
March – Albanian revolt of 1910: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
March 1 – The Wellington, Washington avalanche sweeps away two Great Northern Railway (U.S.) passenger trains in the Cascade Mountains, killing 96, making it the worst snowslide accident in United States history... |
1910_3 | Section: April (2):
April 5 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
April 10 – Halley's Comet becomes visible with the naked eye (perihelion: April 20); Earth passes through its tail about May 19 (its next visit will be in 1986).
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1910_4 | Section: May (2):
May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 12 – The second National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting is held in New York City.
May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.
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1910_5 | Section: June (2):
June 2 – Charles Rolls became the first person to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping.
June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo) without fanfare, and no announcement until later in the year o... |
1910_6 | Section: July (2):
July – First Girl Guide troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Agnes Baden-Powell.
July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
July 9–10 – 'Fowler's ... |
1910_7 | Section: August (2):
August – The International Commercial Bureau of the American Republics becomes the Pan-American Union.
August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 world's fair destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
August 20 – The Great Fire of 1910 ("Big Blowup"), a wildfire that burns 4,700 square... |
1910_8 | Section: September (2):
September 1
The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism (Sacrorum antistitum), to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is founded in Brazil by railwaymen; its Association football team will be the first FIFA Club World Cup champions in 2000.
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1910_9 | Section: October (2):
October
Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
Approximate date of origin of Manchurian plague, a form of pneumonic plague which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.
October ... |
1910_10 | Section: November (2):
November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.
November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed-wing aircraft, Eugene Ely... |
1910_11 | Section: December (2):
December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
December 10 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West has its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Arturo Toscanini and starring Enrico Caruso and Emmy Desti... |
1911_0 | 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s... |
1911_0 | Section: January (2):
January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
January 3
1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.
Siege of Sidne... |
1911_1 | Section: February (2):
February 5
The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is destroyed by fire after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome.
The revolution in Haiti is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is execute... |
1911_2 | Section: March (2):
March 19 – International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.
March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 people.
March 29 – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning (it remains the U.S. service pis... |
1911_3 | Section: April (2):
April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.
April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity; he presents his findings on April 28.
April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town b... |
1911_4 | Section: May (2):
May 8 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on May 10.
May 13–15 – Mexican Revolution: Torreón massacre – Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Fran... |
1911_5 | Section: June (2):
June 7 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.
June 14 – RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
June 15 – RMS Olympic arrives in Queenstown, Ireland, to discharge and tak... |
1911_6 | Section: July (2):
July 1 – The presence of the German warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis.
July 4 – RMS Olympic, having crossed the Atlantic, discharges passengers and mails off Plymouth, England.
July 5 – RMS Olympic arrives in Southampton, England, ending her maiden eastbound vo... |
1911_7 | Section: August (2):
August 17–20 – Britain's National Railway strike of 1911, its first national strike of railway workers; on August 19 it leads to the Llanelli riots in Wales which result in 6 deaths.
August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the painti... |
1911_8 | Section: September (2):
September 20 – RMS Olympic collides with HMS Hawke in The Solent, causing considerable damage to both ships.
September 25 – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, France, killing around 300 onboard and in the surrounding area.
September 29 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Emp... |
1911_9 | Section: October (2):
October 4 – China adopts "Cup of Solid Gold" as its first national anthem. However, it is never performed publicly and is replaced a few months later with a new composition.
October 7 – Liberal leader Karl Staaff returns as Prime Minister of Sweden after a Riksdag election victory based on the pro... |
1911_10 | Section: November (2):
November 1
The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Capt. Scott's Terra Nova Expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.
N... |
1911_11 | Section: December (2):
December 1 – Outer Mongolia, the predecessor of modern-day Mongolia, is declared independent from the Chinese Empire.
December 2 – Australasian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Hobart.
December 9 – Cross Mountain Mine disaster: A coal mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners, ... |
1912_0 | 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s deca... |
1912_0 | Section: January (2):
January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
January 6
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state.... |
1912_1 | Section: February (2):
February 12 – The Manchu Qing dynasty of China comes to an end after 268 years with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor Puyi in favour of the Republic of China.
February 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th state.
February 24 – Battle of Beirut: Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman por... |
1912_2 | Section: March (2):
March 1 – Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane.
March 6 – Italian forces become the first to use airships in war as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
March 7 – Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Ta... |
1912_3 | Section: April (2):
April 1 – A partial lunar eclipse takes place, the first of two lunar eclipses this year. It is the 61st lunar eclipse of the 111th Saros cycle, which started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 830 AD and will conclude with another penumbral lunar eclipse on July 19, 2092.
April 10 – White S... |
1912_4 | Section: May (2):
May 1 – ʻAbdu'l-Bahá lays the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.
May 5 – The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden. Modern Pentathlon is contested for the first time in these games.
May 11 – Alaska becomes a territory of the United States.
May 13 – In the Unite... |
1912_5 | Section: June (2):
June 6 – The Novarupta volcano (290 miles (470 km) southwest of Anchorage) experiences a VEI 6 eruption (the largest in the 20th century).
June 30 – Canada's deadliest tornado strikes Regina, Saskatchewan killing 28 people.
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1912_6 | Section: July (2):
July 1 – Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the first woman to fly the English Channel two months previously, dies in Squantum, Massachusetts, after her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane crashes, killing both Quimby and her passenger.
July 12 – The United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's fil... |
1912_7 | Section: August (2):
August 1 – The Jungfrau Railway is inaugurated with the opening of the subterranean Jungfraujoch railway station in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, Europe's highest at 3,450 metres (11,320 ft) above sea level.
August 4 – United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Ann... |
1912_8 | Section: September (2):
September 4 – The government of the Ottoman Empire agrees to the demands put forward in the Albanian Revolt of 1912.
September 28 – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues" in the United States.
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1912_9 | Section: October (2):
October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
October 10 – The Maternity Allowance Act goes into effect in Australia, but excludes minorities.
October 14 – John Flammang Schrank attempts to assassinate Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee.
October 16 – Bul... |
1912_10 | Section: November (2):
November 5 – 1912 United States presidential election: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson wins over former president Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent president William Howard Taft.
November 11 – William Lawrence Bragg presents his derivation of Bragg's law for the angles for coherent and incohere... |
1912_11 | Section: December (2):
December 3 – Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League, but not Greece) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire at Çatalca, temporarily halting the First Balkan War after 2 months. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 18 – Piltdown Man... |
1913_0 | 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1913th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 913th year of the 2nd millennium, the 13th year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1... |
1913_0 | Section: January (2):
January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his Marxism and the National Question. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city.
January 3 – First Balkan War: Greece completes its capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the las... |
1913_1 | Section: February (2):
February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station.
February 3 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes on all sources of in... |
1913_2 | Section: March (2):
March
The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.
Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament, and rules as a dictator.
c. Marc... |
1913_3 | Section: April (2):
April – Bernhard Kellermann's novel Der Tunnel is published.
April 5 – The United States Soccer Federation is formed.
April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.
April 21 – Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, built by John... |
1913_4 | Section: May (2):
May 3 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
May 9–July 11 – A major industrial strike occurs in the Black Country of England, involving 25,000 workers, and threatening preparations for World War I in naval and s... |
1913_5 | Section: June (2):
June 1 – The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War.
June 4 – Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.
June... |
1913_6 | Section: July (2):
July 10
Romania declares war on Bulgaria.
Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the all-time highest temperature recorded on Earth (although its validity has been challenged, and in 2020 a temperature of 54.4 °C (129.9 °F) was recorded at the same location, which would make it the world's ... |
1913_7 | Section: August (2):
August 2 – The first known ascent of Mount Olympus in Greece is made by Swiss mountaineers Daniel Baud-Bovy and Frédéric Boissonnas guided by Christos Kakkalos.
August 4 – Republic of China: The city of Chungking (modern spelling Chongqing) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebelli... |
1913_8 | Section: September (2):
September 7–8 – The Fourth Congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association (the last occasion on which Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud will meet) takes place in Munich.
September 9
In Germany, BASF starts the world's first plant for the production of fertilizer based on the Haber-Bosch pr... |
1913_9 | Section: October (2):
October 1 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
October 7 – The Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant in Highland Park, Michigan, near Detroit, becomes the first automobile production facility in the world to implement th... |
1913_10 | Section: November (2):
November 5 – King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
November 6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested, while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
November 7–11 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 claims 19 ships, and more than 250 li... |
1913_11 | Section: December (2):
December 1
The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12+1⁄2 hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes. Although Ford is not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one sparks an era of mass production.
Crete, having o... |
1914_0 | 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1... |
1914_0 | Section: January (2):
January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pil... |
1914_1 | Section: February (2):
February 8 – The Luxembourg national football team has its first victory, beating France 5–4 in a friendly match, for the first and only time in football history.
February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 13 – Copyright: In New York Cit... |
1914_2 | Section: March (2):
March 7 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania, to begin his reign.
March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez's painting Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery, with a meat chopper.
March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Green beer is invented by Thomas H. Curtin, and displayed at t... |
1914_3 | Section: April (2):
April 4–September 27 – Komagata Maru incident: The SS Komagata Maru sails from India to Canada. Canadian regulations, designed to exclude Asian immigrants, prevent the boat from docking in Vancouver, and it is forced to return to Calcutta with all its passengers.
April 9 – Tampico Affair: A misunder... |
1914_4 | Section: May (2):
May 1–November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.
May 5–October 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's constitution.
May 8 – Paramount Pictures is created by W. W. Hodkinson as a national film d... |
1914_5 | Section: June (2):
c. June – Blaise Diagne of Senegal becomes the first Black African representative in the French Parliament.
June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
June 8 – The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Bra... |
1914_6 | Section: July (2):
July 1 – The Royal Naval Air Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
July 2 – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
July 4
The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria takes place at Artstetten Ca... |
1914_7 | Section: August (2):
August 1
The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation.
France orders general mobilisation.
The New York Stock Exchange is closed because of the outbreak of the war in Europe, where nearly all st... |
1914_8 | Section: September (2):
September 1
(August 19 Old Style) Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age.
September 2 – World War I: The French village of Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.
September 3 – Wo... |
1915_0 | 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1915th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 915th year of the 2nd millennium, the 15th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1910s... |
1915_0 | Section: January (2):
January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
January 1
WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss... |
1915_1 | Section: February (2):
February – While working as a cook at New York's Sloane Hospital for Women under an assumed name, "Typhoid Mary" (an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever) infects 25 people, and is placed in quarantine for life on March 27.
February 1 – William Fox creates the Fox Film Corporation.
February 4 – ... |
1915_2 | Section: March (2):
March – The 1915 Palestine locust infestation breaks out in Palestine; it continues until October.
March 2 – Armenian genocide: Earliest recorded deportations.
March 10–13 – WWI: Battle of Neuve Chapelle – In the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war, British Indian troops overrun ... |
1915_3 | Section: April (2):
April 5 – Boxer Jess Willard, the latest "Great White Hope", defeats Jack Johnson with a 26th-round knockout in sweltering heat, at Havana, Cuba. Willard becomes very popular among white Americans, for "bringing back the championship to the white race".
April 11 – Charlie Chaplin's film The Tramp is... |
1915_4 | Section: May (2):
May 1 – WWI:
General Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa, leads the army in the occupation of German South West Africa.
The Battle of Gorlice begins. It is one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
May 3 – Canadian soldier John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields".
May 5 – WWI: Gall... |
1915_5 | Section: June (2):
June – Armenian genocide: 15,000 civilians from the Ottoman Armenian population of Bitlis are massacred by Ottoman Turks and Kurds.
June 3 – Mexican Revolution: Troops of Álvaro Obregón and Pancho Villa clash at León; Obregón loses his right arm in a grenade attack, but Villa is decisively defeated.
... |
1915_6 | Section: July (2):
July
WWI: South West Africa Campaign – The Union of South Africa occupies German South West Africa with assistance from Canada, the United Kingdom, the Portuguese Republic and Portuguese Angola. South Africa will occupy South West Africa until March 1990.
Armenian genocide: 17,000 civilians from the ... |
1915_7 | Section: August (2):
August 5–23 – Hurricane Two of the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season over Galveston and New Orleans leaves 275 dead.
August 6 – WWI: Battle of Sari Bair (Gallipoli Campaign) – The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
August 16... |
1915_8 | Section: September (2):
September 5 – The Zimmerwald Conference begins in Switzerland.
September 6 – The prototype military tank is first tested by the British Army.
September 7 – Cartoonist John B. Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.
September 8 – WWI: A Zeppelin raid destroys No. 61 Farringdon Road, L... |
1915_9 | Section: October (2):
October 12 – WWI: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad, for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
October 15 – WWI: Serbian Campaign – Austria-Hungary invades the Kingdom of Serbia. Bulgaria enters the war, also invading Serbia. The Serbian First Army retreats tow... |
1915_10 | Section: November (2):
November 18 – The U.S. silent film Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude, is released.
November 21 – British polar exploration ship Endurance finally breaks apart from pressure of ice around it and sinks into the Weddell Sea, stranding Ern... |
1915_11 | Section: December (2):
December 4–18 – The 'Peace Ship' Oscar II chartered by industrialist Henry Ford sails from Hoboken, New Jersey to Oslo on an independent and eventually unsuccessful mission to broker a peace conference.
December 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 5 in Helsinki at a ... |
1916_0 | 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s de... |
1916_0 | Section: January (2):
January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that has been stored and cooled.
January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign – The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and Fren... |
1916_1 | Section: February (2):
February 9 (6.00 p.m.) – Tristan Tzara "founds" the art movement Dadaism (according to Hans Arp).
February 11
Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control in the United States.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert in the United States.
The Romanian Association fo... |
1916_2 | Section: March (2):
March 8–9 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads about 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 12 U.S. soldiers. A garrison of the U.S. 13th Cavalry Regiment fights back and drives them away.
March 10 – The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence concludes with an understandi... |
1916_3 | Section: April (2):
April
The toggle light switch is invented, by William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg.
Korea Tungsten is founded in Daegu, predecessor of leading steel producer in Asia, POSCO (Pohang Steel Company).
April 11 – WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the occupation of the Sinai Peninsula.
April 2... |
1916_4 | Section: May (2):
May 16
United States Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement, which is to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire, following the conclusion of WWI and the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, into French and British spheres of influence.
May 3... |
1916_5 | Section: June (2):
June 4 – WWI: The Brusilov Offensive, the height of Russian operations in the war, begins with their breaking through Austro-Hungarian lines.
June 5 – WWI: HMS Hampshire sinks, having hit a mine off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.
June 10 – The Arab Revolt against the Ottoma... |
1916_6 | Section: July (2):
July 1–November 18 – WWI: Battle of the Somme, opening with explosion of the British Y Sap and Lochnagar mines and the Battle of Albert: More than one million soldiers die, with 57,470 British Empire casualties on the first day, 19,240 of them killed, the British Army's bloodiest day. The immediate r... |
1916_7 | Section: August (2):
August – Robert Baden-Powell publishes The Wolf Cub's Handbook in the U.K., establishing the basis of the junior section of the Scouting movement, the Wolf Cubs (modern-day Cub Scouts).
August 3–5 – WWI: Sinai and Palestine Campaign – Battle of Romani: British Imperial troops secure victory over a ... |
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