Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
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)
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)
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)
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)
Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford,, styled Lord Charles Beresford between 1859 and 1916, was a British admiral and Member of Parliament.
Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (born 1846)
Jules François Archibald was an Australian journalist and publisher, best known for co-founding and editing The Bulletin, Australia's most popular magazine in the late 19th and ear…
J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (born 1856)
Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of expressionism in Russian literature. He is regarded as o…
Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)
Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader who led the Black Guards during the Ukrainian War of Independence, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha. A…
Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (born 1885)
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
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, d…
First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani (pictured) set off eight bombs in eight cities across the Uni
The Epsom riot took place on 17 June 1919 when between 300 and 800 Canadian soldiers rioted and attacked the police station in Epsom, Surrey, England. Station Sergeant Thomas Green…
Hundreds of Canadian soldiers rioted in Epsom, England, leading to the death of a British police officer
Hans Hermann Ludwig von Reuter was a German admiral who commanded the High Seas Fleet when it was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands at the end of World War I. On 21 June…
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and d
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most dramatic and influential strikes in Canadian history. For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought ec…
During a general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, members of the Royal North-West Mounted Police attacked a crowd of strikers
The Luton Peace Day Riots occurred over three days from 19 to 21 July 1919. Servicemen angry at the lavish spending for the Peace Day parade held in London on 19 July, following th…
Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with…