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  • Toledo, Spain
    1910
    Francisco Franco

    Graduated

    Toledo, Spain
    1910

    In 1907, he entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo, graduating in July 1910 as second lieutenant (251st out of 312 cadets).




  • China
    1910
    Xinhai Revolution

    Homer Lea Supported Sun Yat-sen's Military Ambitions

    China
    1910

    Homer Lea, an American, who became Sun Yat-sen's closest foreign advisor in 1910, supported Sun Yat-sen's military ambitions.




  • Paris, France
    1910
    Marie Curie

    She isolated Pure Radius Metal

    Paris, France
    1910

    In 1910, she isolated pure radius metal. She never succeeded in isolating polonium, which has a half-life of only 138 days.




  • Paris, France
    1910
    Marie Curie

    Curie succeeded in isolating Radium

    Paris, France
    1910

    In 1910 Curie succeeded in isolating radium; she also defined an international standard for radioactive emissions that was eventually named for her and Pierre: the curie.




  • Höchst, Frankfurt, Germany
    1910
    Antibiotic

    The Hoechst Company began To Market The Salvarsan Compound

    Höchst, Frankfurt, Germany
    1910

    The Hoechst company began to market the compound toward the end of 1910 under the name Salvarsan, now known as arsphenamine. The drug was used to treat syphilis in the first half of the 20th century.




  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1910
    Mexican Revolution

    The Díaz Regime Had become Highly Authoritarian

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1910

    By the 1910 election, the Díaz regime had become highly authoritarian, and opposition to it had increased in many sectors of Mexican society.




  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1910
    Mexican Revolution

    1910 Mexican Presidential Election

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1910

    Although similar overall to Díaz in his ideology, Madero hoped for other elites to rule alongside the president. Díaz thought he could control this election, as he had the previous seven; however, Madero campaigned vigorously and effectively. To ensure Madero did not win, Díaz had him jailed before the election. Madero escaped and fled for a short period to San Antonio, Texas. Díaz was announced the winner of the election by a "landslide".


  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1910
    Mexican Revolution

    The Revolutionary Movements broke out In Response To Madero's Plan

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1910

    In late 1910 revolutionary movements broke out in response to Madero's Plan de San Luis Potosí. Madero's vague promises of land reform in Mexico attracted many peasants throughout Mexico. Spontaneous rebellions arose in which ordinary farm laborers, miners, and other working-class Mexicans, along with much of the country's population of indigenous natives, fought Díaz's forces, with some success.


  • Mexico City, Mexico
    1910
    Mexican Revolution

    Madero announced His Intent To Challenge Díaz For The Presidency

    Mexico City, Mexico
    1910

    In 1910, Francisco I. Madero, a young man from a wealthy land-owning family in the northern state of Coahuila, announced his intent to challenge Díaz for the presidency in the next election, under the banner of the Anti-Reelectionist Party. Madero chose as his running mate Francisco Vázquez Gómez, a physician who had opposed Díaz.


  • Guatemala city, Guatemala
    1910
    Robert Fulton

    Bust of Fulton

    Guatemala city, Guatemala
    1910

    The Guatemalan government in 1910 erected a bust of Fulton in one of the parks of Guatemala City.


  • United Kingdom
    Jan, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    The government called the January 1910 general election

    United Kingdom
    Jan, 1910

    The government called the January 1910 general election, which resulted in a narrow Liberal victory; Churchill retained his seat at Dundee. After the election, he proposed the abolition of the House of Lords in a cabinet memorandum, suggesting that it be replaced either by a unicameral system or by a new, smaller second chamber that lacked an in-built advantage for the Conservatives.


  • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Feb, 1910
    Xinhai Revolution

    Gengxu New Army Uprising

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
    Feb, 1910

    In February 1910, the Gengxu New Army Uprising , also known as the Guangzhou New Army Uprising, took place. This involved a conflict between the citizens and local police against the New Army. After revolutionary leader Ni Yingdian was killed by Qing forces, the remaining revolutionaries were quickly defeated, causing the uprising to fail.


  • Jamaica
    1910
    Marcus Garvey

    The Watchman

    Jamaica
    1910

    In early 1910, Garvey began publishing a magazine, Garvey's Watchman—its name a reference to George William Gordon's The Watchman—although it only lasted three issues. He claimed it had a circulation of 3000, although this was likely an exaggeration. Garvey also enrolled in elocution lessons with the radical journalist Robert J. Love, whom Garvey came to regard as a mentor. With his enhanced skill at speaking in a Standard English manner, he entered several public speaking competitions.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill was promoted to Home Secretary

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1910

    In February 1910, Churchill was promoted to Home Secretary, giving him control over the police and prison services, and he implemented a prison reform program. Measures included a distinction between criminal and political prisoners, with prison rules for the latter being relaxed.


  • China
    1910
    Plague

    Pneumonic plague breaks out in Manchuria

    China
    1910

    Pneumonic plague breaks out in Manchuria, killing about 60,000 people over the course of a year.


  • France
    Apr, 1910
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle was promoted to corporal

    France
    Apr, 1910

    In April 1910 he was promoted to corporal. His company commander declined to promote him to sergeant, the usual rank for a potential officer, commenting that the young man clearly felt that nothing less than Constable of France would be good enough for him.


  • Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1910
    Anna May Wong

    The family moved to a neighborhood on Figueroa Street

    Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    1910

    In 1910, the family moved to a neighborhood on Figueroa Street where they were the only Chinese people on their block, living alongside mostly Mexican and Eastern European families. The two hills separating their new home from Chinatown helped Wong to assimilate into American culture.


  • Wiesbaden, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 19, 1910
    Antibiotic

    Ehrlich and Hata announced Their Discovery

    Wiesbaden, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 19, 1910

    In 1910 Ehrlich and Hata announced their discovery, which they called drug "606", at the Congress for Internal Medicine at Wiesbaden.


  • Jamaica
    Apr, 1910
    Marcus Garvey

    First assistant secretary

    Jamaica
    Apr, 1910

    Garvey involved himself with the National Club, Jamaica's first nationalist organization, becoming its first assistant secretary in April 1910. The group campaigned to remove the British Governor of Jamaica, Sydney Olivier, from office, and to end the migration of Indian "coolies", or indentured workers, to Jamaica, as they were seen as a source of economic competition by the established population. With fellow Club member Wilfred Domingo he published a pamphlet expressing the group's ideas, The Struggling Mass.


  • United Kingdom
    Apr, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Lords relented and the People's Budget passed into law

    United Kingdom
    Apr, 1910

    In April, the Lords relented and the People's Budget passed into law.


  • Cornwall and Rothesay, United Kingdom
    Friday May 6, 1910
    Edward VIII

    Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay

    Cornwall and Rothesay, United Kingdom
    Friday May 6, 1910

    Edward automatically became Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay on 6 May 1910 when his father ascended the throne as George V on the death of Edward VII.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday May 25, 1910
    The Wright brothers

    Two Family flights

    U.S.
    Wednesday May 25, 1910

    On May 25, 1910, back at Huffman Prairie, Orville piloted two unique flights. First, he took off on a six-minute flight with Wilbur as his passenger, the only time the Wright brothers ever flew together. They received permission from their father to make the flight. They had always promised Milton they would never fly together to avoid the chance of a double tragedy and to ensure one brother would remain to continue their experiments. Next, Orville took his 82-year-old father on a nearly seven-minute flight, the only one of Milton Wright's life. The aircraft rose to about 350 feet (107 m) while the elderly Wright called to his son, "Higher, Orville, higher!"


  • Hastings, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday May 31, 1910
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Death

    Hastings, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday May 31, 1910

    On 31 May 1910, she died at her home in Hastings, Sussex, after suffering a stroke that paralyzed half her body. Her ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Munn's Parish Church, Kilmun, and obituaries honouring her appeared in publications such as The Lancet and The British Medical Journal.


  • U.S.
    Monday Jun 13, 1910
    The Wright brothers

    The mountebank business

    U.S.
    Monday Jun 13, 1910

    There were not many customers for airplanes, so in the spring of 1910 the Wrights hired and trained a team of salaried exhibition pilots to show off their machines and win prize money for the company—despite Wilbur's disdain for what he called "the mountebank business". The team debuted at the Indianapolis Speedway on June 13.


  • Spokane, Washington, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1910
    Father's Day

    Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington

    Spokane, Washington, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1910

    On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington, by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Several local clergymen accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, "sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city".


  • Wales, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1910
    Edward VIII

    Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester

    Wales, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1910

    He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester a month later on 23 June 1910, his 16th birthday.


  • Paris, France
    Saturday Jun 25, 1910
    Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird's Premiere

    Paris, France
    Saturday Jun 25, 1910

    Stravinsky became an overnight sensation following the success of the Firebird's premiere in Paris on 25 June 1910.The composer had travelled from his estate in Ustilug to Paris in early June to attend the final rehearsals and the premiere of The Firebird.


  • Paris, France
    1910
    Eiffel Tower

    Father Theodor Wulf measured radiant energy at the top and bottom of the tower

    Paris, France
    1910

    Many innovations took place at the Eiffel Tower in the early 20th century. In 1910, Father Theodor Wulf measured radiant energy at the top and bottom of the tower. He found more at the top than expected, incidentally discovering what are known today as cosmic rays.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1910
    Nikola Tesla

    Tesla went on to have offices at the Metropolitan Life Tower

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1910

    Tesla went on to have offices at the Metropolitan Life Tower from 1910 to 1914; rented for a few months at the Woolworth Building, moving out because he could not afford the rent.


  • U.S.
    1910
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    NAACP leaders offered Du Bois the position of Director of Publicity and Research

    U.S.
    1910

    NAACP leaders offered Du Bois the position of Director of Publicity and Research. He accepted the job in the summer of 1910, and moved to New York after resigning from Atlanta University.


  • Costa Rica
    1910
    Marcus Garvey

    Garvey traveled to Costa Rica

    Costa Rica
    1910

    Economic hardship in Jamaica led to growing emigration from the island. In mid-1910, Garvey traveled to Costa Rica, where an uncle had secured him employment as a timekeeper on a large banana plantation in the Limón Province owned by the United Fruit Company (UFC).


  • Montana and Idaho, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 20, 1910
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    Great Fire of 1910

    Montana and Idaho, U.S.
    Saturday Aug 20, 1910

    The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the western United States that burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km2) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British Columbia, in the summer of 1910. It killed 87 people, mostly firefighters.


  • Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day Skopje, North Macedonia)
    Friday Aug 26, 1910
    Mother Teresa

    Birth

    Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day Skopje, North Macedonia)
    Friday Aug 26, 1910

    Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) Bojaxhiu; on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), Ottoman Empire. She was baptized in Skopje, the day after her birth. She later considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, her "true birthday".


  • Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom
    Aug, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Churchill had to deal with the Tonypandy Riot

    Rhondda, Wales, United Kingdom
    Aug, 1910

    In the summer of 1910, Churchill had to deal with the Tonypandy Riot, in which coal miners in the Rhondda Valley violently protested against their working conditions. The Chief Constable of Glamorgan requested troops to help police quell the rioting. Churchill, learning that the troops were already traveling, allowed them to go as far as Swindon and Cardiff, but blocked their deployment; he was concerned that the use of troops could lead to bloodshed. Instead, he sent 270 London police, who were not equipped with firearms, to assist their Welsh counterparts.


  • Zagreb, Croatia
    Sep, 1910
    Josip Broz Tito

    Gain employment in Zagreb

    Zagreb, Croatia
    Sep, 1910

    After completing his apprenticeship in September 1910, Broz used his contacts to gain employment in Zagreb and at the age of 18 joined the Metal Workers' Union and participated in his first labour protest. He also joined the Social Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia.


  • Switzerland
    Sep, 1910
    Igor Stravinsky

    Moving to Switzerland

    Switzerland
    Sep, 1910

    His family joined him before the end of the ballet season and they decided to remain in the West for a time, as his wife was expecting their third child. After spending the summer in La Baule, Brittany, they moved to Switzerland in early September.


  • France
    Sep, 1910
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle promoted to sergeant

    France
    Sep, 1910

    He was eventually promoted to sergeant in September 1910.


  • Osaka, Japan
    1910
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Sister's Death

    Osaka, Japan
    1910

    Yasunari's sister died shortly after meeting her, when he was 11.


  • Lausanne, Switzerland
    Friday Sep 23, 1910
    Igor Stravinsky

    Their Second Son Was born

    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Friday Sep 23, 1910

    On 23 September, their second son, Sviatoslav Soulima, was born at a maternity clinic in Lausanne; at the end of the month, they took up residence in Clarens.


  • France
    Oct, 1910
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle took up his place at St Cyr

    France
    Oct, 1910

    De Gaulle took up his place at St Cyr in October 1910.


  • Mexico
    Wednesday Oct 5, 1910
    Mexican Revolution

    The Plan de San Luis Potosí

    Mexico
    Wednesday Oct 5, 1910

    On 5 October 1910, Madero issued a "letter from jail," known as the Plan de San Luis Potosí, with its main slogan Sufragio Efectivo, No Re-elección ("free suffrage and no re-election"). It declared the Díaz presidency illegal and called for revolt against Díaz, starting on 20 November 1910. Madero's political plan did not outline major socioeconomic revolution, but it offered the hope of change for many disadvantaged Mexicans.


  • Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1910
    Bank of America

    Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust

    Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
    1910

    The central portion of the franchise dates to 1910, when Commercial National Bank and Continental National Bank of Chicago merged in 1910 to form Continental & Commercial National Bank, which evolved into Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust.


  • Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
    Monday Nov 7, 1910
    The Wright brothers

    First known commercial air cargo

    Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
    Monday Nov 7, 1910

    The Wright Company transported the first known commercial air cargo on November 7, 1910, by flying two bolts of dress silk 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, for the Morehouse-Martens Department Store, which paid a $5,000 fee.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1910
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    1910 Elections

    U.S.
    Tuesday Nov 8, 1910

    Prior to the 1910 elections, the local Democratic Party recruited Roosevelt to run for a seat in the New York State Assembly.


  • Chihuahua, México
    Thursday Nov 10, 1910
    Mexican Revolution

    Madero Supporter Toribio Ortega Took up arms With a Group of Followers

    Chihuahua, México
    Thursday Nov 10, 1910

    When it became obvious that the election had been fixed, Madero supporter Toribio Ortega took up arms with a group of followers at Cuchillo Parado, Chihuahua on 10 November 1910.


  • U.S.
    Nov, 1910
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    The Crisis

    U.S.
    Nov, 1910

    His primary duty was editing the NAACP's monthly magazine, which he named The Crisis. The first issue appeared in November 1910, and Du Bois pronounced that its aim was to set out "those facts and arguments which show the danger of race prejudice, particularly as manifested today toward colored people".


  • England, United Kingdom
    Nov, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Hugh Franklin attacked Churchill with a whip

    England, United Kingdom
    Nov, 1910

    In November 1910, the suffragist Hugh Franklin attacked Churchill with a whip; Franklin was arrested and imprisoned for six weeks.


  • Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (Now Croatia)
    Dec, 1910
    Josip Broz Tito

    He returned home

    Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (Now Croatia)
    Dec, 1910

    He returned home in December 1910.


  • Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Dec, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Liberals were re-elected with Churchill secure in Dundee

    Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Dec, 1910

    Asquith called a general election in December 1910 and the Liberals were re-elected with Churchill secure in Dundee.


  • West Virginia, U.S.
    1910
    Mother's Day

    The First State Officially Recognizing Mother's Day

    West Virginia, U.S.
    1910

    The first state officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday being West Virginia, Jarvis' home state, in 1910.


  • Stockholm, Sweden
    Sunday Dec 11, 1910
    Albrecht Kossel

    The Nobel Prize

    Stockholm, Sweden
    Sunday Dec 11, 1910

    Kossel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his research in cell biology, the chemical composition of the cell nucleus, and for his work in isolating and describing nucleic acids. The award was presented on 10 December 1910.


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