39 events found for 1911
Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's…
The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of…
The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier destroys six to eight square blocks of Ocean Park, California.
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre…
Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of…
The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.
His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at…
An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward…
Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire, In this war , Italy gains Libya which ends Ottoman rule in North Africa .
An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution.
The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight.
Orville Wright remains in the air for nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese…