Monday 24 November 2008

General stuff for 1910-1916

1910-
April 21st - Mark Twain died.
May 6th - Edward VII of England dies, George V inherites the throne.
August 13th - Florence Nightingale died.
September 1st - The Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against Modernism.
October 11th - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to ride in an airplane.
October 18th - Eleutherios becomes the Prime Minister of Greece.

1911-
March 8th - International Womens Day is celbrated for the first time.
May 11th - A Futurist exibition in Milan is the first efforts to make the groups theories concrete.
June 22nd - George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
July 24th - Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu.
August 22nd - The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in France.
September 29th - Italy declares war on Turkey.

1912-
New Mexico and Arizona become official states of the USA.
January 28th - Jackson Pollock is born.
April 10th - Titanic sets sail from Southampton.
April 14th - Titanic strikes an iceburg.
April 15th - Titanic sinks at 2.20am taking 1500 lives.
August 23rd - Gene Kelly is born.

1913-
March - The House Of Romanov celebrates 300 years of ruling Russia.
March 18th - King George I of Greece is assassinated.
June 4th - Suffragette Emily Davison runs out infront of the Kings horses at Epsom, Derby. She dies 4 days later.
August 13th - Stainless steel is invented by Harry Brearly.
December 12th - Vincenzo Perugia attempts to sell the Mona Lisa in Italy. He is arrested and the Mona Lisa is returned to France.

1914-
World War I begins.
Austria-Hungry and Germany declare war on Russia.
Germany declares was on France.
Britain and Japan declare war on Germany.
Britain and France declare war on Turkey.
Josef Muller-Brockman is born.

1915-
March 19th - Pluto is photographed for the first time.
December 12th - Frank Sinatra is born.
December 25th - British and German forces leave the trenches for a football game in no-mans land.

1916-
The summer olympics in Berlin, Germany are cancelled.
January 29th - German zeppelins bomb Paris for the first time.
Febuary - Tristan Tzara 'founds' the art movement Dadaism.
May 21st - Britain introduces daylight saving time.

Refrences-
Wikipedia
The Graphic and Design timeline by Heller and Petit.

Martha.

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