1910-19

=1910-1919=

1910

 * Edward VII dies.
 * George V becomes King of the United Kingdom.
 * The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
 * The Tango Catches On

1911

 * Aircraft used as a military weapon in Turkish-Italian War.
 * Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution.
 * Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom
 * The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered
 * [|Mona Lisa Is Stolen]
 * Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole

1912

 * Titanic sinks on maiden voyage.
 * New Mexico and Arizona admitted as states of the USA.
 * Henri Seimet flies non stop from Paris to London in three hours.
 * Parachutes Invented
 * Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link," Discovered (Fraud)

1913

 * Henry Ford develops first moving assembly line.
 * Work starts on the Australian Capital, Canberra.
 * First Crossword Puzzle

1914

 * Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies (including the Little Tramp).
 * Franz Ferdinand assassinated. World War One begins.
 * Battle of the Marne
 * First Traffic Light
 * Panama Canal Officially Opened

1915

 * Australians land at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
 * Paris is bombed by German zeppelins.
 * Armenian Genocide
 * D.W. Griffith's //The Birth of a Nation// Released
 * Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon
 * [|//Lusitania// Sunk by German U-Boat]
 * Second Battle of Ypres

1916

 * Battle of the Somme.
 * First self-service grocery store, USA.
 * Battle of Verdun
 * Easter Rising in Ireland

1917

 * First Battle of Giza - British retreat from the Turks.
 * First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded
 * [|Mata Hari Executed for Being a Spy]
 * Russian Revolution
 * U.S. Enters World War I

1918

 * Hostilities cease on the Western Front.
 * Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes.
 * Daylight Saving Time Introduced
 * Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed

1919

 * Prohibition of alcohol in North America.
 * Versailles Treaty signed by Allies and Germany