:1911

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{{Events by month|1911}}

{{About year|1911|the film|1911 (film)|the handgun|M1911 pistol}}

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Events

= January =

{{Main|January 1911}}

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= February =

{{Main|February 1911}}

  • February 5
  • The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is destroyed by fire after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome.
  • The revolution in Haiti is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is executed two days later.{{cite journal|title=Record of Current Events|journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|date=March 1911|pages=287–290}}
  • February 17 – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.
  • February 18
  • The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place in British India from Allahabad to Naini when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.
  • A serious earthquake causes a landslide that creates Lake Sarez in modern-day Tajikistan.

= March =

{{Main|March 1911}}

  • March 19 – International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.{{cite journal|first=Temma|last=Kaplan|title=On the Socialist Origins of International Women's Day|journal=Feminist Studies|volume=11|issue=1|date=Spring 1985|pages=163–171|doi=10.2307/3180144|jstor=3180144}}
  • March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 people.
  • March 29 – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning (it remains the U.S. service pistol for 74 years).

= April =

{{Main|April 1911}}

= May =

{{Main|May 1911}}

= June =

{{Main|June 1911}}

  • June 7 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.
  • June 14 – {{RMS|Olympic}} departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
  • June 15 – RMS Olympic arrives in Queenstown, Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.
  • June 21 – {{RMS|Olympic}} arrives in New York at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way up New York Harbor by all kinds of craft as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs, Olympic is safely moored at 10 a.m.
  • June 22 – George V and Mary are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, at Westminster Abbey in London.{{cite book |last1=Range |first1=Matthias |title=Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II |date=23 August 2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-02344-4 |page=239 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&pg=PA239 |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418141117/https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&pg=PA239 |url-status=live }} Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor, {{RMS|Olympic}} is decorated for the occasion.
  • June 23 – Frank C. Mars starts the Mars Candy Factory in Tacoma, Washington, origin of Mars, Incorporated, the global confectionery and pet food brand.{{cite web|url=http://www.mars.com/global/about-us/history|title=History in the Making|publisher=Mars Inc.|access-date=2020-07-07|archive-date=November 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118221101/http://www.mars.com/global/about-us/history|url-status=live}}

= July =

{{Main|July 1911}}

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  • July 1 – The presence of the German warship {{SMS|Panther|1901|2}} in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis.
  • July 4 – {{RMS|Olympic}}, having crossed the Atlantic, discharges passengers and mail off Plymouth, England.
  • July 5 – {{RMS|Olympic}} arrives in Southampton, England, ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New York.
  • July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru.
  • July 25 – Headington Football Club merge with Headington Quarry to create Headington United, which much later becomes Oxford United F.C. in England.
  • July 28 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition begins as the SY Aurora departs London.{{cite book|last=Bryan|first=R.|date=2011|title=Ordeal by Ice: Ships of the Antarctic|location=Dobbs Ferry|publisher=Sheridan House|isbn=978-1-57409-312-4|page=269}}

= August =

{{Main|August 1911}}

  • August 1720 – Britain's National Railway strike of 1911, its first national strike of railway workers; on August 19 it leads to the Llanelli riots in Wales which result in 6 deaths.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2011/08/llanelli_railway_riots_1911.html|publisher=BBC Wales|title=The Llanelli railway riots of 1911|access-date=7 September 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126062932/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/waleshistory/2011/08/llanelli_railway_riots_1911.html|url-status=live}}
  • August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the painting is returned in 1913.
  • August 27 – CSKA Moscow, a professional multi-sports club in Russia, is officially founded.{{cite book|title=Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game|isbn=978-0-753-51571-6|page=50|last1=Bennetts|first1=Marc|date=March 5, 2009|publisher=Virgin Books }}
  • August 29 – Ishi, the last unassimilated Native American in the U.S. using stone tools, emerges from hiding near Oroville, California.

= September =

{{Main|September 1911}}

= October =

{{Main|October 1911}}

= November =

{{Main|November 1911}}

= December =

{{Main|December 1911}}

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Births

= January =

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= February =

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= March =

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= April =

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= May =

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= June =

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= July =

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= August =

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= September =

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= October =

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= November =

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= December =

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Deaths

= January =

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= February =

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= March =

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= April =

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= May =

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= June =

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= July =

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= August =

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= September =

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= October =

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= November =

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= December =

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Nobel Prizes

References

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Further reading

  • [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=9GZMAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP4 New International year book: 1911 comprehensive, global coverage online]
  • [https://archive.org/details/britannicayearbo00chisuoft Britannica year-book, 1913 (1913) covers 1911 and 1912, global coverage]
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 225–44.

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