Explore 3298 historical events from 1910–1919.
The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought from 24 October to 4 November 1918 near Vittorio Veneto on the Italian Front during World War I. After having defeated Austro-Hungarian tro…
World War I: Italian victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish field marshal and statesman who was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and served as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938. H…
British forces attack Turkish forces under Mustafa Kemal in the battle of Aleppo, which the British capture the…
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a Prussian-born German general and politician. He achieved fame during World War I (1914–1918) for his central role in the German victories a…
World War I: Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II…
Joseph Wiseman was a Canadian-American theatre, film and television actor. He starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. He was also known for …
Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (died 2009)
Joan Benham was an English actress best known for her portrayal of Lady Prudence Fairfax in the ITV period drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. She was born in London and was the fir…
Joan Benham, English actress (died 1981)
Märta Birgit Nilsson was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of R…
Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (died 2005)
Wilfrid James Mannion was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international foo…
Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
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. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
The First Czechoslovak Republic, often colloquially referred to as the First Republic, was the first Czechoslovak state that existed from 1918 to 1938, a union of ethnic Czechs and…
World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak…
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany or the Second Reich, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolutio…
World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the…
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. One of the deadliest conflicts in…
World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
The Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, informally Transleithania, were the Hungarian territories of Austria-Hungary, throughout the latter's entire existence, and which disintegr…
World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia,…
Aleksandra Leontievna Boiko was a tank commander in the Soviet Army active in the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
Alexandra Boyko, Russian tank commander (died 1996)
Edward Butts Lewis was an American geneticist, a corecipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to found the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
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Denis Charles Scott Compton was an English multi-sportsman. As a cricketer he played in 78 Test matches and spent his whole career with Middlesex. As a footballer, he played as a w…
Denis Compton, English cricketer and sportscaster (died 1997)
Coleman Alexander Young was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been d…
Coleman Young, American politician, 66th Mayor of Detroit (died 1997)
Yasuhiro Nakasone was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1982 to 1987. His political term was best known for pushing through the privatization of sta…
Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2019)
George Herbert Allen was an American football coach. He served as the head coach for two teams in the National Football League (NFL), the Los Angeles Rams from 1966 to 1970 and the…
George Allen, American football player and coach (died 1990)
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was an Emirati politician, philanthropist, and the founding father of the United Arab Emirates. Zayed served as the governor of Eastern Region fro…
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, emir of Abu Dhabi and first president of the United Arab Emirates (died 2004)
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga "for their fundamental work…
Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American ra…
Julius Rosenberg, American spy (died 1953)
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Jackson was an American competitive sport shooter. In his international career, he won numerous medals across three Summer Olympic Games, three IS…
Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (died 2015)
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch univer…
Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist, historian, and academic (died 2000)
Johnny Wayne was a Canadian comedian and comedy writer best known for his work as part of the comedy duo Wayne and Shuster alongside Frank Shuster (1916–2002).
Johnny Wayne, Canadian comedian (died 1990)