Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
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 score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot
The Greek–Serbian Alliance of 1913 was signed at Thessaloniki on 1 June 1913, in the aftermath of the First Balkan War, when both countries wanted to preserve their gains in Macedo…
The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War
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 full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film ind
William Sulzer, nicknamed Plain Bill, was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 39th governor of New York serving for 10 months in 1913, and a long-serving U.S. representat…
Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a
The Treaty of London (1913) was signed on 30 May following the London Conference of 1912–1913. It dealt with the territorial adjustments arising out of the conclusion of the First …
The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War between the Balkan allies and the Ottoman Empire
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, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby
The Natives Land Act, 1913 was an Act of the Parliament of South Africa that was aimed at regulating the acquisition of land. It largely prohibited the sale of land from whites to …
Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented
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 Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
The Kingdom of Serbia was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882.
Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it is bordered by Hungary in the north, Romania in the n…
Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve sl…
American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913
The Bulgarian Army, also called Bulgarian Armed Forces, is the military of Bulgaria. The commander-in-chief is the president of Bulgaria. The Ministry of Defense is responsible for…
The Bulgarian army launches attacks against Serbian positions, triggering the Second Balkan War
The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1…
Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the…
The Second Revolution was a failed 1913 revolt by the governors of several southern Chinese provinces and supporters of Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang (KMT) against the Beiyang governmen…
The Second Revolution breaks out against the Beiyang government, as Li Liejun proclaims Jiangxi independent from the…
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: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest,…
Tohoku University is a public research university in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. It is colloquially referred to as Tohokudai or Tonpei .
Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit…
Wilhelmina was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well a…
Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
William Kenneth Carpenter was an American discus thrower. He won the NCAA and AAU titles in 1935 and 1936, becoming the first two-time NCAA champion in a weight throw event from th…
Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach (died 1984)
The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak was a cholera outbreak the Romanian Army suffered during the Second Balkan War of 1913 against the Kingdom of Bulgaria. This conflict was pa…
The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.
Stainless steel is an iron-based alloy that contains chromium, making it resistant to rust and corrosion. Alternatively, it is known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), Niro…
First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, responsible for defending the country, the Crown Dependencies, and the Overseas Territories from naval attack …
Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
Dimitris "Mimis" Fotopoulos was a Greek actor, writer, poet, and artist.
Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (died 1986)
Emil Hans Willi Hennig was a German biologist and zoologist who is considered the founder of phylogenetic systematics, otherwise known as cladistics. In 1945 as a prisoner of war, …
Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist (died 1976)