- February 25
- Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troops to British-Indies. [1]
- March 1
- An avalanche of snow hits two trains stranded for seven days outside the Cascade Tunnel below Stevens Pass, near Wellington, Washington, USA, killing 96. Deadliest avalanche in US history. [1] [377.13]
- March 8
- Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris, France, becomes first licensed female pilot. [1]
- March 10
- March 16
- Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona, Florida. [1]
- March 26
- US forbid immigration of criminals, anarchists, paupers, and the sick. [1]
- March 28
- Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane (the Fabre Hydravion) after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. [1] [5]
- April 2
- Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), is murdered at age 37. [1]
- April 3
- Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley, is climbed. [1]
- April 19
- Halley's Comet seen by naked eye first time this trip (in Curacao). [1]
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- April 23
- International Exhibition opens in Brussels, Belgium. [1]
- April 24
- German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms. [1]
- April 27
- Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights. [1]
- A giant meteor bursts over Mexico, falls in mountains, starts forest fire. [521]
- April 28
- First night-time airplane flight (by Claude Grahame-White, in England). [1]
- May 4
- Canadian parliament accepts creation of Royal Canadian Navy. [1]
- Tel Aviv is founded. [1]
- May 6
- King Edward VII of England (1901-10), dies suddenly after short illness at age 68. [1] [859.33]
- King George V ascends to British throne. [1]
- May 10
- First aircraft air display held (Hendon, England). [1]
- Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth in 1910. [1]
- May 18
- Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic. [1]
- May 20
- Funeral is held for Britain's King Edward VII. Nine kings of the world attend. This is the first important news event filed in color. [1] [55.66]
- May 29
- Vatican Pope releases encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers. [1]
- May 31
- The Union of South Africa is formed, incorporating Cape of Good Hope. [285.35] [700.47A] [1458.52]
- June 2
- First roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England). [1]
- Pygmies are discovered in Dutch New Guinea. [1]
- June 19
- Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Washington, USA). [1] [5]
- June 20
- Krazy Kat comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal. [1]
- June 22
- First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland. [1]
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- A 16kg carbonaceous chondrite meteorite (type CV) falls at Vigarano in Italy. [523.91]
- July 1
- Union of South Africa becomes a dominion. [1]
- July 9
- Walter Brookins becomes first to pilot an airplane to one mile altitude. [1]
- August 14
- 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC. [1]
- August 22
- September 10
- Great Idaho Fire destroys three million acres of timber. [1]
- September 11
- First commercially-successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood, California). [1]
- September 27
- First test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France). [1]
- October 2
- First two-aircraft collision (in Milan, Italy). [1]
- October 5
- Revolution in Portugal overthrows constitutional monarchy of King Manuel II and establishes the Portuguese First Republic. [1] [538.58]
- November 7
- The first air freight shipment (from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. [5]
- November 12
- First movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson River from a burning balloon. [1]
- November 14
- First airplane take-off from a naval vessel equipped with a flight-deck, a 50hp Curtiss pusher biplane, from US light cruiser Birmingham at Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. [1] [55.12]
- November 20
- Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero. [1]
- November 22
- A group of men meet in secret at Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA, to write legislation to revise US banking system to produce a central bank under their control. The men are US Senator Nelson Aldrich, his secretary Arthur B. Shelton, assistant secretary to Treasury and special assistant to National Monetary Commission A. Piatt Andrew, president of National City Bank of New York Frank Vanderlip, senior partnet at J.P. Morgan Company Henry P. Davidson, president of First National Bank of New York Charles D. Norton, lieutenant of J.P. Morgan Benjamin Strong, partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company Paul Warburg. (The result is the Federal Reserve System in 1913.) [1040.405]
- November 27
- New York's Pennsylvania Station opens as world's largest railway terminal. [1]
- December 3
- Neon lights are first publically seen, at Paris Auto Show. [1]
- December 9
- French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir. [1]
- December 10
- JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics. [1]
- December 19
- First US city ordinance requiring white and black residential areas (Baltimore, Maryland). [1]
- Rayon fabric is first commercially produced, in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. [1]
- December 21
- Explosion in coal mine in Hulton, England; 344 mine workers die. [1]
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- US tobacco industry production of cigarettes during year: 9 billion. [1]
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- January 1
- Belgian Mining law introduces 9.5-hour work day. [1]
- South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government. [1]
- January 5
- Portuguese expel Jesuits. [1]
- January 7
- First airplane bombing experiments conducted with explosives, in San Francisco, California. [1]
- Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam. [1]
- January 10
- First photo in US taken from an airplane, in San Diego, California. [1]
- Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified). [1]
- January 16
- Pandora becomes first two-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east. [1]
- January 17
- Failed assassination attempt on premier Aristide Briand in French Assembly. [1]
- January 18
- First aircraft landing on deck of ship, a Curtiss aircraft on armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, California. [1] [55.12]
- January 26
- Glenn Curtiss pilots first successful hydroplane, in San Diego, California. [1]
- January 30
- First rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba. [1]
- February 6
- Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul, Turkey. [1]
- February 8
- US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras. [1]
- February 17
- Fred J. Wiseman of Sonoma, California, carries in his airplane mail from the US Postal Service postmaster of Petaluma, California, to the postmaster of Santa Rosa. This is the world's first officially-sanctioned airmail flight. [1633.50]
- First amphibian flight to and from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego, California. [1]
- March 7
- US sends 20,000 troops to Mexican border. [1]
- March 8
- International Women's Day first celebrated. [1]
- March 25
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 145 workers. [1] [129]
- March 30
- Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 metre) completed. [1]
- April 5
- Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer. [1]
- April 12
- First non-stop London-Paris flight (by Pierre Prier in 3 hours 56 minutes). [1]
- April 30
- Portugal approves women's suffrage. [1]
- May 2
- French troops occupy Fès El Bali, Morocco. [1]
- May 9
- Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland. [1]
- May 15
- British house of commons accepts Parliament Bill. [1]
- US Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). [1]
- May 16
- Remains of a Neanderthal man is found in Jersey, United Kingdom. [1]
- Zeppelin Deutscheland wrecks at Dusseldorf, Germany. [1]
- May 18
- Mexican President/dictator José Porfirio Diaz' term ends. [1]
- May 25
- Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz. [1]
- May 31
- The Titanic passenger liner is launched in Belfast, Ireland, with no christening ceremony. It is the largest ship in the world: 825.5 feet, 92.5 feet across beam, 46382 tons displacement. [117.39] [720.80]
- June 6
- Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified). [1]
- June 22
- King George V of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. [1] [859.33]
- June 26
- Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph). [1]
- June 28
- A series of loud bangs are heard over Alexandria, Egypt, as about 40 pieces of a meteorite fall totalling 40kg, one kills a dog. The meteorite is named Nakhla for the village of El Nakhla El Baharia. (70 years later it is shown to be from Mars.) [521] [523.106]
- July 2
- Austrian conductor Felix Mottl dies in Munich at age 55 while conducting Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. [467]
- July 15
- 46 inches of rain (beginning July 14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. [1]
- July 24
- Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas." [5]
- August 10
- Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords. [1]
- August 21
- In Paris, France, the Mona Lisa painting is stolen by former Louvre employee Vincenzo Perugia, by hiding it under his coat. His intention is to sell it to an Italian museum. (The painting is recovered in 1914.) [5] [66.9] [760.38] [987.557] (August 22 [1])
- September 1
- M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km. [1]
- September 4
- Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft). [1]
- September 9
- First airmail service (British Post Office) from Hendon to Windsor. [1] [1428.95]
- September 14
- Piotr Stolypin, Russia's Prime Minister, is assassinated by Mordka Bogrov. [1]
- September 18
- Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown. [1]
- October 10
- Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus. The last Qing monarch of China abdicates. [1] [409.22]
- October
- At the British Royal Mint, trial strikings are made of a Canadian 1911 silver $1 coin. (These pieces later become Canada's most valuable coins, though not truly coins.) [3]
- October 20
- Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole. [1]
- October 23
- First aerial operation carried by an airplane in warfare, a reconnaissance mission by Italian military over a Turkish encampment at Azizia. [55.8]
- October 24
- Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole. [1]
- November 1
- First air raid, Italian pilot drops a 4.5-pound bomb on Turkish position at Ain Zara. [55.8]
- November 5
- Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica. [1]
- November 6
- Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico. [1]
- November 18
- Britain's first seaplane flies. [1]
- December 10
- Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days). [1]
- Tobias Asser given Nobel Prize for peace. [1]
- December 14
- Norwegian Roald Amundsen's team, including Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, become the first to reach the South Pole. [1] [5] [129] [395.52] [663.42] (December 15 [729.69])
- December 30
- Sun Yat-sen elected first President of Republic of China. [1]
- December 31
- Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize. [1]
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