Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
Frédéric-François-Louis Perrier was a Swiss architect and politician who was a Federal Councillor from 1912 until his death in 1913. As of 2009, he is the member with the shortest …
Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (born 1849)
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von der Ahe was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the S…
Chris von der Ahe, German-American businessman (born 1851)
Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, th…
Sarah Roberts, English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872)
Mahmud Shevket Pasha was an Ottoman military commander and statesman.
Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1856)
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison, English suffragette (born 1872)
Ștefan Octavian Iosif was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet and translator.
Ștefan Octavian Iosif, Romanian poet and translator (born 1875)
Manoel Ferraz de Campos Sales was a Brazilian lawyer, coffee farmer, and politician who served as the fourth president of Brazil.
Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (born 1841)
Simon Alphonse Kirchhoffer was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (born 1873)
Edward Burd Grubb Jr. was a Union Army colonel and regimental commander in the American Civil War. He served in three regiments and commanded two of them. In recognition of his ser…
Edward Burd Grubb Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (born 1841)
Louis Hémon, was a French writer, best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.
Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (born 1880)
Clímaco Calderón Reyes was a Colombian lawyer and politician, who became 15th President of Colombia for one day, following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa.
Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (born 1852)
Tobias Michael Carel Asser was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at th…
Tobias Asser, Dutch lawyer and jurist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1838)
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designe…
The Woolworth Building in New York City officially opened; at the time, it was the tallest building in the world, with a
The 1913 Ipswich Mills strike was a labor strike involving textile workers in Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States. The strike began on April 22 and ended in defeat for the strike…
During a labor strike in Ipswich, Massachusetts, police opened fire into a crowd of strikers, killing one and injuring s
The Second Balkan War was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Bulgaria and its former Balkan League allies, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece, who were later joined by Romania and…
Second Balkan War: The Serbian Army began the Siege of Vidin, which they abandoned six days later when an armistice…
The Second Balkan War was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Bulgaria and its former Balkan League allies, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece, who were later joined by Romania and…
While on a campaign in Bulgaria, the Romanian Army suffered a cholera outbreak that led to around 1,600 deaths.
Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film. Raja Harishchandra feat…
Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film, was released
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. His first success came with the Sikorsky S-2, the second aircraft of hi…
The Russian inventor Igor Sikorsky flew the self-designed Russky Vityaz, the world's first four-engine fixed-wing aircra
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia was the only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm II, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Through her father, Victoria Louise was a gr…
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great so
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes co…
During the premiere of the ballet Le Sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris,
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison (pictured), an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampl
Emily Wilding Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)…
Emily Davison, an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, was fatally injured after being trampled by a hor
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. It is the 26th-m…
In Detroit, autoworkers for car manufacturer Studebaker went on strike in the American auto industry's first major strik
During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union army, Federal a…
More than 50,000 Union and Confederate veterans gathered at the Gettysburg Battlefield, the largest combined reunion of