1910

Years: 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Contents

1 Events

Events

January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
January 15- In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
19 March - In USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog found South Africa Party.
27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
29 April - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 11 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa.
June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship.
July 2 - Demonstrations in France against public executions.
July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
August 14 - fire at World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
October 1 - bomb explodes on the Los Angeles Times building - 21 dead, several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara later arrested and sentenced.
October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
October 10 - Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.

November 7 - First air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
December British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.