Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
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 …
English dramatist W
International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 count…
The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York
The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, formally known as the Convention between the United States and Other Powers Providing for the Preservation and Protection of Fur Seal…
Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had bee…
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London.
William Paul Brady was an American lawyer. From 1909 to around 1914, he served as the first district attorney for Texas' 70th judicial district, and from 1917 to 1919 he was the ju…
In a case later termed a "legal lynching", Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and death sentence against…
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in North America and parts of Europe, is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to th…
The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the fi
Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, was a French aviator. He is known for winning the first Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910.
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the Unite
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies …
The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed
The Royal Canadian Navy is the naval force of Canada. The navy is one of three environmental commands within the Canadian Armed Forces. As of February 2024, the RCN operates 12 Hal…
The Royal Canadian Navy is created
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.
George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII
The South Africa Act 1909 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created the Union of South Africa out of the former Cape, Natal, Orange River, and Transvaal colon…
The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa
Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor, and early pilot.
Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A
Father's Day is a day set aside for honoring one's father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. "Father's Day" complements similar celebr…
The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers o…
Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer
Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in a…
Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the Engl
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purp
The Johnson–Jeffries riots were a series of race riots that occurred throughout the United States after African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeated white boxer James J. Jeffries i…
The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the…
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as partially responsible for laying the …
In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague…
John Robertson Duigan MC was an Australian pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft.
John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a state that spanned much of Southeastern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century…
The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. The de…
The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
Clarence Berton Roueché Jr. was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), Th…
Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (died 1994)
Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza was a Greek politician, leader of the New Democracy party (1981–1984), member of parliament, and author.
Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence (died 1990)
Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger …
Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (died 1999)