Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
James Gordon Bennett Jr. was an American publisher. He was the publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Sco…
James Gordon Bennett, Jr
Gervais Raoul Victor Lufbery was a French and American fighter pilot and flying ace in World War I. Because he served in both the French Air Force, and later the United States Army…
Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (born 1885)
Ōzutsu Man'emon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture. He was the sport's 18th yokozuna.
Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (born 1869)
Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's …
Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer (born 1842)
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II. He was designated Emperor of…
Michael Alexandrovich, Russian Grand Duke (born 1878)
Bazil George Assan was a Romanian engineer, explorer and economist. Belonging to a wealthy family in Bucharest, Assan was an important figure in the industrialization of the Kingdo…
Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer (born 1860)
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary. After beginning his revolutionary career as a populist, in 1883 Plekhanov established…
Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher and theorist (born 1856)
Francesco Baracca was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore side by side on his plane of a black horse prancing on it…
Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (born 1888)
Jacob Peter Beckley, nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghe…
Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (born 1867)
Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Roseg…
Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (born 1843)
Mehmed V Reşâd was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch. He had little influence over government affairs and…
Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (born 1844)
Wilhelm Maria Theodor Ernst Richard Graf von Mirbach-Harff was a German diplomat. He was assassinated by Left Socialist-Revolutionaries while serving as ambassador to Russia.
Wilhelm von Mirbach, German diplomat (born 1871)
Quentin Roosevelt I was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service wher…
Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)
Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's …
Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family:
Indra Lal Roy was the sole Indian World War I flying ace. While serving in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force, he claimed ten aerial victories; five airc…
Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (born 1898)
Ernest William Christmas was an Australian painter, known primarily for his landscapes. Much of his later, most familiar work was done outside of Australia: in Europe, South Americ…
Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (born 1863)
A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. The word is taken originally from the Arabic word makhāzin (مخازن), meaning "storehous…
An explosion in the ammunition magazine of the Japanese battleship Kawachi resulted in the deaths of more than 600…
RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by C. S. Swan & Hunter in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.
RMS Carpathia, which had rescued survivors of the 1912 Titanic sinking, was sunk by a German U-boat with the loss of…
Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. T…
Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, journalist, and poet (born 1886)
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was a short-lived state in the Caucasus that included most of the territory of the present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as…
The short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on territory formerly part of the Russian
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 …
First World War: The British Royal Navy launched unsuccessful raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge in German-occupied Belgium
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 …
First World War: The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux began, which contained the first instance of tanks fighting aga
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 …
First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend
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 was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abu