Important Historical Events of the year 1911, Year 1911 in History
List of 1911 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1911
What happened in the year 1911?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 3, 1911 | A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan. |
| January 3, 1911 | A gun battle in the East End of London leaves two dead. It sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill. |
| January 5, 1911 | Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. |
| January 12, 1911 | The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. |
| January 14, 1911 | Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. |
| January 15, 1911 | Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded. |
| January 18, 1911 | Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. |
| January 21, 1911 | The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place. |
| January 29, 1911 | Mexican Revolution: Mexicali is captured by the Mexican Liberal Party, igniting the Magonista rebellion of 1911. |
| January 30, 1911 | The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. |
| February 18, 1911 | The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away. |
| March 25, 1911 | In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. |
| March 25, 1911 | Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair. |
| March 29, 1911 | The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official side arm of the U.S. Army. |
| April 2, 1911 | The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census. |
| April 6, 1911 | During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg). |
| April 8, 1911 | Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. |
| April 27, 1911 | Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate. |
| April 29, 1911 | Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded. |
| May 15, 1911 | In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up. |
| May 15, 1911 | More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales. |
| May 19, 1911 | Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. |
| May 21, 1911 | President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution. |
| May 23, 1911 | The New York Public Library is dedicated. |
| May 30, 1911 | At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race. |
| May 31, 1911 | The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| May 31, 1911 | The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution. |
| June 16, 1911 | IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York. |
| June 22, 1911 | George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| June 22, 1911 | Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana.[6] |
| June 28, 1911 | The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt. |
| July 1, 1911 | Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. |
| July 4, 1911 | A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. |
| July 7, 1911 | The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. |
| July 14, 1911 | Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by President Taft after he lands his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.[20] |
| July 24, 1911 | Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas". |
| July 28, 1911 | The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London. |
| August 1, 1911 | Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate. |
| August 21, 1911 | The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. |
| August 24, 1911 | Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal. |
| August 29, 1911 | Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California. |
| August 29, 1911 | The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| September 7, 1911 | French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. |
| September 14, 1911 | Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II. |
| September 20, 1911 | The White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British warship HMS Hawke.[10] |
| September 24, 1911 | His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness. |
| September 25, 1911 | An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship. |
| September 29, 1911 | Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 5, 1911 | The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service. |
| October 9, 1911 | An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Qing dynasty, beginning the Xinhai Revolution. |
| October 10, 1911 | The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy. |
| October 13, 1911 | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent. |
| October 23, 1911 | The Italo-Turkish War sees the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot makes a reconnaissance flight. |
| October 24, 1911 | Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. |
| October 25, 1911 | The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps. |
| November 1, 1911 | World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs. |
| November 3, 1911 | Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. |
| November 5, 1911 | After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. |
| November 11, 1911 | Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. |
| November 19, 1911 | The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. |
| December 9, 1911 | A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines. |
| December 14, 1911 | Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. |
| December 27, 1911 | "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. |
| December 29, 1911 | Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. |