Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States, and in one rura…
Red Summer: Race riots erupted in Chicago after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38…
The Third Anglo-Afghan War, also known as the Third Afghan War, the British-Afghan War of 1919, and in Afghanistan as the War of Liberation, was a short war which began on 3 May an…
The Third Anglo-Afghan War ended with the United Kingdom signing a treaty to recognise the independence of the Emirate…
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire, lasting from 1917 to 1922, sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the …
Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a…
The Boston police strike occurred on September 9, 1919, when Boston police officers went on strike seeking recognition for their trade union and improvements in wages and working c…
The Boston police strike ended after four days of rule by the state militia, the deaths of nine people, and…
Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World W…
Manfred von Richthofen, a
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…
Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the we…
Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad
The Allies or the Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by the French Republic, the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of…
World War I: Allied forces under John J
The Left SR uprising, or Left SR revolt, was a rebellion against the Bolsheviks by the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party in Moscow, Soviet Russia, on 6–7 July 1918. It was one of …
The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Va
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-D…
The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by C. S. Swan & Hunter in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.
The RMS Carpathia is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was a naval battle undertaken by Czechoslovak forces during the Russian Civil War.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux
The Second Ostend Raid was the later of two failed attempts made during the spring of 1918 by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy to block the channels leading to the Belgian port of O…
World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium
The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republi…
The Finnish Civil War ends when the Whites took over Fort Ino, a Russian coastal artillery base on the Karelian Isthmus,
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of…
The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U
The 1918 White victory parade in Helsinki was a military parade of the Finnish White Guard on 16 May 1918 celebrating their decisive victory in the Finnish Civil War, which officia…
The victory military parade by the Finnish White Guard is held in Helsinki celebrating their decisive victory in the Fin
The Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought during the First World War on the Western Front from late August to early September, in the basin of the River Somme. It was part …
World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
Bapaume is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Battle of Lake Baikal was a naval battle undertaken by Czechoslovak forces during the Russian Civil War.
The Battle of Lake Baikal is fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
The Democratic Republic of Georgia was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to March 1921. Recognized by all major European powers o…
The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, also known as the Azerbaijan People's Republic, was the first secular democratic republic in the Turkic and Muslim worlds. The ADR was founded b…
The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence