Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. Raised in Winnipeg, McLuhan studied at the University of Mani…
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and theorist (died 1980)
Umashankar Jethalal Joshi was an Indian poet, scholar and writer known for his contributions to Gujarati literature. He wrote most of his works in Gujarati.
Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar (died 1988)
John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.
Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (died 1981)
John Foster Furcolo was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member…
Foster Furcolo, American lawyer and politician, 60th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1995)
Archbishop Iakovos of North and South America was the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America from 1959 until his resignation in 1996.
Archbishop Iakovos of America (died 2005)
Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.
Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (born 1862)
René Vallon was an early French aviator. Born in Paris, he travelled to Shanghai, China, in 1911 with a group of aviation enthusiasts to promote aircraft sales. He achieved the fir…
René Vallon, French aviator (born 1880)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who went by the name Wentworth, was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in abolitionism in the …
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, American abolitionist (born 1823)
Frederick August Otto Schwarz was a German-born American toy retailer known for founding FAO Schwarz.
Frederick August Otto Schwarz, German-American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (born 1836)
Gustav Mahler was a Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism …
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1860)
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming was a Scottish astronomer. At the Harvard College Observatory, she contributed to the photographic classification of stellar spectra, helping to de…
Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (born 1857)
Milton Bradley was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with his eponymous enterprise, which was purch…
Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company (born 1836)
Maurice Rouvier was a French statesman of the "Opportunist" faction, who twice served as the Prime Minister of France. He is best known for his financial policies and his unpopular…
Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)
James Curtis Hepburn was an American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japane…
James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (born 1815)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen …
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Victor John Surridge was an English motor-cycle racer who raced for the Rudge team. After the works Rudge factory team visited the Isle of Man TT Races for the first time, Victor S…
Victor Surridge, English motorcycle racer (born 1882)
Allan McLean was an Australian politician who served as the 19th Premier of Victoria, in office from 1899 to 1900. He was later elected to federal parliament, where he served as a …
Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (born 1840)
The Second Guangzhou (Canton) Uprising, known in Chinese as the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising or the Guangzhou Xinhai Uprising, was a failed uprising took place in China led by Huan…
The Second Canton Uprising took place but was suppressed in Guangzhou, China
Louisa Edith Church Maryon was an English sculptor. Along with Ita Wegman, she belonged to the innermost circle of founders of anthroposophy and those around Rudolf Steiner.
Edith Maryon's statuette The Dance of Anitra (pictured), one of the few of her works known to survive in private hands,
The Mexican Revolution was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mex…
Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite which fell in Egypt in 1911. It was the first meteorite reported from Egypt, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, and the prot…
The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Ea
Parks Canada is the agency of the Government of Canada which manages the country's 37 National Parks, 11 national park reserves, 5 National Marine Conservation Areas, 171 National …
Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, commonly known as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general and politician who was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 until his overthrow in 1911. Seiz…
Mexican president Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco I