1910

From top to bottom, left to right: The death of Edward VII ends the Edwardian era and begins George V’s reign in the United Kingdom; the Mexican Revolution ignites a decade-long struggle reshaping the nation’s politics and society; the Great January Comet of 1910 captivates observers worldwide with a spectacular celestial display; the 5 October 1910 revolution in Portugal topples the monarchy and establishes the First Portuguese Republic; the Great Fire of 1910 burns over three million acres in the northwestern United States, one of the largest wildfires in American history; and the Tonypandy riots erupt in Wales during a coal miners’ strike, highlighting labor unrest and industrial hardships.
1910 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1910
MCMX
Ab urbe condita2663
Armenian calendar1359
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԹ
Assyrian calendar6660
Baháʼí calendar66–67
Balinese saka calendar1831–1832
Bengali calendar1316–1317
Berber calendar2860
British Regnal year10 Edw. 7 – 1 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2454
Burmese calendar1272
Byzantine calendar7418–7419
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4607 or 4400
    — to —
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4608 or 4401
Coptic calendar1626–1627
Discordian calendar3076
Ethiopian calendar1902–1903
Hebrew calendar5670–5671
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1966–1967
 - Shaka Samvat1831–1832
 - Kali Yuga5010–5011
Holocene calendar11910
Igbo calendar910–911
Iranian calendar1288–1289
Islamic calendar1327–1329
Japanese calendarMeiji 43
(明治43年)
Javanese calendar1839–1840
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4243
Minguo calendar2 before ROC
民前2年
Nanakshahi calendar442
Thai solar calendar2452–2453
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Bird)
2036 or 1655 or 883
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Iron-Dog)
2037 or 1656 or 884

1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

Halley's Comet's tail

January

  • January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.[1]
  • January 8 – Treaty of Punakha: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan becomes a protectorate of the British Empire.[2]
  • January 11 – Charcot Island is discovered by the Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the ship Pourquoi Pas?[3]
  • January 12 – Great January Comet of 1910 first observed (perihelion: January 17).[4]
  • January 15 – Amidst the constitutional crisis caused by the House of Lords rejecting the People's Budget, the January 1910 United Kingdom general election is held resulting in a hung parliament with neither Liberals nor Conservatives gaining a majority.[5]
  • January 21 – The Great Flood of Paris begins when the Seine overflows its banks.[6]
  • January 22 – Completion of construction of New York City's Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, at 700 feet (210 m) the world's tallest building at this time, is celebrated.[7]
  • January 31
    • A coal mine explosion at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Primero, Colorado, kills 75 miners.[8]
    • American-born medical practitioner Hawley Harvey Crippen poisons his wife, Cora, and buries her body in the cellar of their London home (probable date).[9]

February

  • February 1 – A coal mine explosion at the Browder Coal Company in Drakesboro, Kentucky kills 34 miners.[10]
  • February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.[10]
  • February 5 – A coal mine explosion at the Jefferson Clearfield Coal Company mine at Ernest, Pennsylvania, kills 11 miners (10 Hungarian) but another 110 are able to escape.[11]
  • February 9 – French liner General Chanzy sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off Menorca, with only one survivor of the 157 on board.[12]
  • February 12 – Chinese expedition to Tibet: A force of 2,000 Chinese troops march into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet; the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, is forced to flee to British India.[13]
  • February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo.

March

  • March – Albanian revolt of 1910: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
  • March 1 – The Wellington, Washington avalanche sweeps away two Great Northern Railway (U.S.) passenger trains in the Cascade Mountains, killing 96, making it the worst snowslide accident in United States history.[14]
  • March 3 – Morocco signs accords with France in Paris, permitting the French to occupy Casablanca and Oujda in return for military training, as part of refinancing of loans.[15]
  • March 4 – The Rogers Pass avalanche buries a group of Canadian Pacific Railway workers clearing tracks in the Selkirk Mountains at Rogers Pass (British Columbia), making it the worst snowslide accident in Canadian history.[16]
  • March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's license No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.[17]
  • March 10
    • Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is made illegal.
    • Release of In Old California, the first film made in Hollywood, California, directed by D. W. Griffith.[18]
  • March 17 – Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.
  • March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
  • March 20 – The first clinic for treatment of occupational diseases is opened in Milan (Italy).[19]
  • March 23 – A rebellion by Rif tribesmen in Spanish Morocco is finally suppressed after 8 months. During the conflict, an estimated 8,000 Berbers and 2,000 Spanish soldiers have been killed.
  • March 27 – A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312 people after ballroom decorations catch alight.[20]

April

May

May 6: King George V

June

July

  • July – First Girl Guide troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Agnes Baden-Powell.[28]
  • July 9–10 – 'Fowler's match': the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's ground in London, known after the captain of Eton College, Robert St Leger Fowler, and described as "what might just be the greatest cricket match of all time".[29]
  • July 12 – Charles Rolls becomes the first British aviation fatality when his French-built Wright aeroplane suffers a broken rudder at an altitude of 80 feet (24 meters) and crashes during a contest at Bournemouth.[30]
  • July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Crippen.
  • July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August

  • August 20 – The Great Fire of 1910 ("Big Blowup"), a wildfire that burns 4,700 square miles in the Inland Northwest of the United States, due to dry weather.
  • August 22 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, by which the Empire of Japan formally annexes the Korean Empire, is signed (it becomes effectively void in 1945, which is formally recognised in 1965).
  • August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.
  • August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.

September

October

  • October
    • Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
    • Approximate date of origin of Manchurian plague, a form of pneumonic plague which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.[31]
  • October 5 – 5 October 1910 revolution: The First Portuguese Republic is proclaimed in Lisbon; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
  • October 7 – Baudette fire of 1910, a wildfire that burns ca. 350,000 square miles in Minnesota and Ontario, including several towns.
  • October 20 – The hull of White Star ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.
  • October 23 – Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).

November

December

Undated

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Django Reinhardt

February

William Shockley
Joan Bennett

March

David Niven
Tancredo Neves
Masayoshi Ōhira
Akira Kurosawa
Ingrid of Sweden

April

May

  • May 1
    • Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian-born philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (d. 1987)
    • J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer, ufologist (d. 1986)
  • May 12
    • Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (d. 2010)
    • Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
    • Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
  • May 23
    • Scatman Crothers, African-American actor, musician (d. 1986)
    • Artie Shaw, American clarinetist, bandleader (d. 2004)
  • May 24 – Ne Win, 4th President of Burma (d. 2002)
  • May 28
    • Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
    • T-Bone Walker, American singer, guitarist (d. 1975)
  • May 29 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)

June

Jacques Cousteau
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Paul Flory
Konrad Zuse

July

Gloria Stuart
William Hanna
  • July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
  • July 9 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d. 2001)
  • July 10 – Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Vietnamese politician (d. 1996)
  • July 11 – John Stapp, American U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician and biophysicist (d. 1999)
  • July 14 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
  • July 17 – James Elliott Coyne, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (d. 2012)
  • July 18 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
  • July 20 – Muriel Evans, American actress (d. 2000)
  • July 27 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-born American actress (d. 2016)

August

Mother Teresa

September

Diosdado Macapagal

October

Ngô Đình Nhu
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

November

Kurt Meyer
  • November 20 – Pauli Murray, African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and Episcopal priest (d. 1985)
  • November 21 – Ibn Baz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia (d. 1999)
  • November 26 – Cyril Cusack, South African–born Irish actor (d. 1993)

December

Date unknown

  • Fawzi Mulki, prime minister of Jordan (d. 1962)
  • Ek Yi Oun, prime minister of Cambodia (d. 2013)

Deaths

January

February

Miguel Febres Cordero

March

H. Maria George Colby

April

Mark Twain

May

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Robert Koch

June

July

Johann Gottfried Galle

August

Florence Nightingale

September

October

King Chulalongkorn
Jean Henri Dunant

November

Leo Tolstoy

December

Mary Baker Eddy
  • December 1 – William Pryor Letchworth, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1823)
  • December 3
    • Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)
    • Wesley Merritt, American general (b. 1836)
  • December 8 – Paškal Buconjić, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b. 1834)
  • December 28 – Benjamin Pitman, English-born American stenographer and crafts promoter (b. 1822)
  • December 29 – Reginald Doherty, British tennis player (b. 1872)
  • December 31 – John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)[46]

Date unknown

  • Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet and teacher (b. 1826)

Nobel Prizes

References

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  2. ↑ Sinha, A. C. (2001). Bhutan: Tradition, Transition and Transformation. Indus Publishing. p. 102.
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  8. ↑ "Cherry Mine Disaster Duplicated in Colorado". Colorado Springs Gazette. February 1, 1910. p. 1.
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Primary sources and year books

  • New International Year Book 1910 970pp of detailed global coverage.
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 206–24.