Important Historical Events of the year 1910, Year 1910 in History
List of 1910 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1910
What happened in the year 1910?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1910 | Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson. |
| January 13, 1910 | The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. |
| January 15, 1910 | Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft). |
| February 8, 1910 | The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. |
| March 1, 1910 | The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people. |
| March 3, 1910 | Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy. |
| March 8, 1910 | French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. |
| March 28, 1910 | Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near in France. |
| April 5, 1910 | The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated. |
| April 12, 1910 | SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched. |
| April 16, 1910 | The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time. |
| April 28, 1910 | Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom. |
| April 29, 1910 | The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public. |
| May 4, 1910 | The Royal Canadian Navy is created. |
| May 6, 1910 | George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII. |
| May 31, 1910 | The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa. |
| June 2, 1910 | Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane. |
| June 17, 1910 | Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight. |
| June 19, 1910 | The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. |
| June 25, 1910 | The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. |
| June 25, 1910 | Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. |
| July 4, 1910 | The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured. |
| July 15, 1910 | In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. |
| July 16, 1910 | John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia. |
| July 24, 1910 | The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. |
| August 20, 1910 | Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people. |
| August 29, 1910 | The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea. |
| September 12, 1910 | Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter). |
| September 22, 1910 | The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. |
| September 26, 1910 | Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled. |
| October 1, 1910 | A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21. |
| October 5, 1910 | In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared. |
| October 6, 1910 | Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times. |
| October 11, 1910 | Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. |
| October 14, 1910 | English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C. |
| October 15, 1910 | Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. |
| October 21, 1910 | HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| October 22, 1910 | Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife. |
| November 7, 1910 | The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse. |
| November 10, 1910 | The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910. |
| November 14, 1910 | Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. |
| November 18, 1910 | In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday. |
| November 20, 1910 | Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. |
| November 21, 1910 | Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash). |
| November 23, 1910 | Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. |
| December 3, 1910 | Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. |
| December 21, 1910 | An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners. |