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Events

Roald Amundsen (left) and his companions at the South Pole

• 1910 : After the fall of King Manuel II , the First Republic is proclaimed in Portugal .
• 1910: The British King and Emperor of India , Edward VII , dies of an acute attack of chronic bronchitis in Buckingham Palace . His 44-year-old son George V succeeds him to the British throne.
• 1910: The German socialist and women's rights activist Clara Zetkin proposes the introduction of an international women's day at the Second International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen , without, however, favoring a specific date. The first Women's Day was then celebrated on March 19, 1911 in Denmark , Germany , Austria-Hungary and Switzerland .
• 1911 to 1912 : The Italian-Turkish War begins with the Italian declaration of war on September 29, 1911 and ended with the Peace of Ouchy on October 18, 1912.
• 1911: With the discovery of the apparently murdered Andrej Jušcinskij 12-year-old starts in Kiev , the Beilis affair . Conservative members of the organization of the Black Hundred try to portray the murder as a Jewish ritual murder , although all the evidence points in a different direction.
• December 14, 1911: Roald Amundsen is the first person to reach the South Pole .
• 1912: Titanic's maiden voyage and sinking .
• 1912: Woodrow Wilson wins the presidential election in the United States.
• 1912: Sun Yat-sen proclaims the Republic of China and establishes the Kuomintang .
• 1912: The Spanish Prime Minister José Canalejas Méndez is murdered in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid by the anarchist Manuel Pardiñas Serrano . Álvaro Figueroa Torres is from King Alfonso XIII. appointed Prime Minister.
• 1912 and 1913 : The Balkan Wars are two wars between the states of the Balkan Peninsula in 1912 and 1913 in the run-up to the First World War. As a result, the Ottoman Empire in Europe was pushed into the current borders of Turkey and had to cede large areas to neighboring countries.
• 1913: Norway becomes the first sovereign state in Europe to introduce women's suffrage .
• 1913: Construction of Canberra , the planned capital of Australia in the Australian Capital Territory created in 1910 , begins according to plans by architect Walter Burley Griffin .
• 1913: The Natives Land Act in South Africa paves the way for the later apartheid system .
• 1914 to 1918 : The assassination attempt on Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo triggers the July crisis that ultimately leads to the First World War .
• 1914: The Ancona package boat, which transports 200 passengers, is the first watercraft to travel the full length of the Panama Canal . Official opening ceremonies are canceled due to the outbreak of war in Europe.
• 1914 to 1923 : The initial phase of German inflation from 1914 to 1923 , one of the most radical devaluations that a large industrial nation has ever experienced.
• 1915 : The Ottoman Tehcir law presented by Interior Minister Talât Pascha initiates the genocide of the Armenians .
• 1916 : Germany is the first country in the world to introduce summer time . May 1st starts on April 30th at 11:00 p.m.
• 1917 : October Revolution in Russia and the beginning of the civil war in Russia (until 1922).
• 1918: The November Revolution overthrows the German Empire and leads to the First Republic . Kaiser Wilhelm II goes into exile.
• 1918: Czechoslovakia is founded.
• 1918: The Russian tsarist family is murdered in Yekaterinburg .
• 1918: Lenin is seriously injured in an assassination attempt; Fanny Kaplan is arrested as a suspect . The attack triggers the so-called red terrorist phase .
• 1918: Independent Hungarian state and Soviet republic (1919).
• 1918: Beginning of an influenza pandemic (" Spanish flu "). Around 500 million people will fall ill by the end of 1919 and over 20 million will die from the pandemic.
• 1919 : Foundation of the Weimar Republic .
• 1919: Karl Liebknecht , Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches found the KPD as an independent party. Spartacus uprising in Berlin. Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered by soldiers of the Guard Cavalry Rifle Division in Berlin; Luxemburg's body sunk in the Landwehr Canal.
• 1919: Proclamation and suppression of the Bremen Council Republic and the Munich Council Republic .
• 14. / 15. June 1919, the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown .
• 1919: The statutes of the League of Nations are adopted by the General Assembly of the Versailles Peace Conference.

economy

Decaffeinated Coffee HAG

• 1910: With the Australian Notes Act , the Commonwealth Treasury is founded in Australia and the Australian pound is introduced as a separate currency for the united Australia.
• 1910: A change in the company creates the automobile manufacturer Alfa Romeo in Milan .
• 1911: Racing driver Louis Chevrolet and entrepreneur William Durant found the automobile company Chevrolet Motor Car Company in Detroit .
• 1912: President Adolfo Díaz introduces the Córdoba Oro as the new currency in Nicaragua in place of the previously valid peso . At the beginning, one cordoba is equal to one US dollar .
• 1912: In Eindhoven the expanding company Philips & Co. is transferred to the incorporated limited company N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken .
• 1913: The baker Karl Albrecht senior, who had to give up his job for health reasons, went into business for himself as a bread trader. His wife Anna founds a mom and pop shop under his name in Schonnebeck . Under their sons Karl and Theo , the Aldi company became a trading empire in the course of the 20th century.
• 1913: Karl Rapp founds Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH , predecessor of Bavarian Motor Works ( BMW ) in Munich . The Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) are founded in 1916.
• 1913: Arthur Andersen and Clarence DeLany found the accounting firm Andersen, DeLany & Co in Chicago , Illinois , which grew into one of the largest accounting firms in the world .
• 1914: At a press conference, Henry Ford announced the introduction of the eight-hour day at Ford on January 12 and a minimum wage of five US dollars per day.
• 1914: The Maserati automobile company is founded in Bologna .
• 1915: During the First World War , bread is rationed in the German Reich . The bread menu is the first of the following food brands .
• 1915: The film technology company Technicolor is founded.
• 1916: William Edward Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt found the Pacific Aero Products Company in Seattle , which developed into the aircraft manufacturer The Boeing Company .
• 1917: The standards committee of German industry (forerunner of DIN ) is founded.
• 1917: Creation of the British company BP .
• 1918: Large-scale industry and railways are nationalized in the Soviet Union .
• 1919: Henri Farman founds the world's first scheduled airline with his brother Maurice . The Lignes Farman became a predecessor of Air France in 1933 .
• 1919: In Nuremberg, the General German Trade Union Confederation is formed, an amalgamation of 52 trade unions led by Carl Legien .
• 1919: Creation of the Danone company in Barcelona by Isaac Carasso.
• 1919: The Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij ( KLM ) is founded, making it the oldest airline in the world that still exists.

Cultural history

science and technology

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• The Ford Model T dominates the auto market.
• Robert Goddard develops the first rockets .
• 1910: Robert Victor Neher, together with Edwin Lauber and Alfred Gmür, files a patent application in Switzerland for the process he devised for the production of aluminum foil .
• 1910: The earth crosses the tail of Halley's Comet , which scares many people because astronomers recently discovered the poisonous gas dicyan in it.
• 1910: The Zeppelin LZ 7 "Germany" , which had been in operation a few days earlier, crashes in a storm on Limberg in the Teutoburg Forest near Bad Iburg after an engine fails. Passengers and crew survive the accident.
• 1910: During an involuntary flight test with the Coanda-1910 , the Romanian physicist and aerodynamicist Henri Marie Coandă discovered the Coandă effect named after him . As the aircraft lands, he observes how the gases and flames from the engine build up along the fuselage of the aircraft. The aircraft catches fire and is completely destroyed.
• 1910: The German doctor Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transvestism .
• 1910: Sigmund Freud founds the International Psychoanalytic Association together with other psychoanalysts in Nuremberg .
• 1911: The first Solvay conference on the theory of radiation and quanta , organized by the Belgian industrialist and amateur researcher Ernest Solvay , is held in Brussels under the chairmanship of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz .
• 1911: The Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science is founded in Berlin . V., forerunner of the later Max Planck Society .
• 1911: The world's first television set is installed in the Deutsches Museum.
• 1911: Joseph John Thomson builds the first mass spectrograph .
• 1912: The American Albert Berry is the first person to jump out of an airplane with a parachute . His subsequent comment is: "Never again!" The parachute was developed by Thomas Wesley Benoist and pilot Tony Jannus .
• 1912: Victor Franz Hess discovers cosmic radiation with the help of balloon flights in the earth's atmosphere . He published the discovery in Physikalische Zeitschrift 13 (1912), 1084.
• 1912: Max von Laue discovered, together with Walter Friedrich and Paul Knipping, the diffraction of X-rays on crystals (published in: Munich Reports 1912, 303 ). Both the wave character of the X-rays and the lattice structure of the crystals are thus verified.
• 1912: During a meeting of the Geological Association in Frankfurt's Senckenberg Museum, Alfred Wegener first presented his thoughts on continental drift to the public.
• 1912: The German chemist Anton Köllisch synthesizes the ecstasy active ingredient MDMA for the first time for the chemical company Merck .
• 1912: The diesel Klose Sulzer thermal locomotive for the Prussian State Railways is completed in Berlin , the world's first diesel locomotive .
• 1912: The Internationale Feuerlösch-Gesellschaft mbH presents the first "quick dry fire extinguisher " in Berlin . The patented extinguishing process revolutionizes fire fighting and can be seen as the forerunner of all modern mobile fire extinguishers.
• 1912: The German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938) discovered the 3000 year old bust of Nefertiti , wife of Akhenaten in Tell El-Amarna .
• 1913: The French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer when they were able to detect ozone in higher atmospheric layers for the first time using UV spectroscopic investigations .
• 1913: Sigmund Freud publishes Totem and Tabu , in which he deals with the prohibition of incest .
• 1914: Walter Schottky develops the laws for the start-up, space charge and saturation area in the vacuum tube .
• 1914: Ernest Rutherford identifies the "recoil atoms " when bombarding hydrogen atoms with electrons as protons .

Martha, the last passenger pigeon

• 1914: In the zoo of Cincinnati , the pigeon Martha, the last known individual of its genus, dies , which largely disappeared towards the end of the 19th century . Since then, the pigeon, together with the bison hunt, has become a symbol of the overexploitation of nature.
• 1915: Albert Einstein gives his first public lecture on the general theory of relativity he developed in the Treptower observatory . At the Prussian Academy of Sciences , Einstein presented the core of the general theory of relativity. He uses differential geometry to describe the curved space-time .
• 1915: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ), from which NASA emerges in 1958 , is established. It is intended to coordinate innovations in aircraft and propulsion construction and place them on a scientific basis. The knowledge obtained in this way will be made available to the American aviation industry.
• 1916: The longest railway line in the world, the Trans-Siberian Railway , is completed.
• 1916: Oskar Dressel succeeds in synthesizing the drug suramin . Suramin or suramin sodium is the first effective remedy for sleeping sickness .
• 1916: In the United States caused the National Park Service . It is his responsibility to make the managed places accessible and to preserve the natural landscape and fauna as well as historical monuments.
• 1917: The American paleontologist Charles Walcott finds fossilized in the Burgess slate the extinct species Fasciculus vesanus , which lived on Earth about 510 million years ago in the Cambrian .
• 1918: The explorer Reinhard Maack discovers the at least 2000 year old rock carving White Lady in the Brandberg massif .
• 1918: Incas , the last Caroline Parakeet , dies in the Cincinnati Zoo . Since then, the only parrot species in North America has been considered extinct.
• 1919: The Bauhaus , initiated by Walter Gropius , is built in Weimar as a college for design.
• 1919: Arthur Eddington observed during a total solar eclipse in the Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe that the gravitational field of the sun light just as distracting as the general theory of relativity of Albert Einstein predicts.
• 1919: The Junkers F 13 is the first all-metal aircraft to make its maiden flight.
• 1919: Ernest Rutherford artificially converts nitrogen into oxygen .
• 1919: Francis William Aston discovers that isotopy is a phenomenon that is distributed over the entire periodic table

Visual arts

• 1910: Umberto Boccioni presents the manifesto of futuristic painting.
• 1910: The predominantly expressionist New Secession splits off from the Berlin Secession under the leadership of Max Liebermann .
• 1910 to 1911: The Manet and the Post-Impressionists exhibition at Grafton Galleries in London , organized by Roger Fry , introduces the concept of post-impressionism . Edwardian audiences in London were shocked by the exhibition and the press published scathing reviews. In it, the organizer Fry is described as “crazy”, and Paul Cézanne's works are compared with children's doodles.
• 1911: Because Gustav Pauli , scientific director of Der Kunstverein in Bremen , bought the painting Poppy Field from Vincent van Gogh for the Kunsthalle Bremen , a “warning” appears in the Bremer Nachrichten . That is the impetus for the Bremen artist dispute .
• 1911: The portrait of the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by the 31-year-old Italian painter Vincenzo Peruggia .
• 1911: An unemployed that have become Navy Koch stands in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum on Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch with a knife.
• 1911: After a dispute provoked by him, Wassily Kandinsky leaves the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and founds the artists' association Der Blaue Reiter with Franz Marc .
• 1912: Marcel Duchamp paints Nu descendant un escalier no. 2 , a key work of classical modernism .
• 1912: The term Orphism is coined by the writer Guillaume Apollinaire for the pictures by Robert Delaunay , who in the same year gives an introduction to the Delaunay exhibition in the gallery Der Sturm by Herwarth Walden . He sees this as the overcoming of cubism .
• 1912: Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso develop paper collé , an early form of collage .
• 1913: The Little Mermaid , created by Edvard Eriksen and the symbol of the city, is unveiled in Copenhagen .
• 1913: The Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig is inaugurated for the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Nations . The foundation stone had been laid 15 years earlier. Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Friedrich August III. take part in the event.
• 1915: The publisher and art dealer Watanabe Shōzaburō coined the term Shin-hanga for the modern form of Japanese woodcut . The first Shin-hanga in the bathroom comes from Hashiguchi Goyō . At the same time, the Sōsaku-hanga , another form of woodcut , in which the artist carries out all three work steps (drawing, carving, printing) himself, is flourishing .
• 1916: Hugo Ball , Emmy Hennings , Tristan Tzara , Richard Huelsenbeck , Marcel Janco and Hans Arp found the artistic and literary movement of Dadaism in Zurich . Dadaism has given considerable impulses to modern art through to contemporary art .
• 1919: Foundation of the Hamburg Secession .

Fashion

• The corset is increasingly being removed from women's fashion.
• The French fashion designer Paul Poiret designs the so-called " hobble skirt ".
• In Paris, trouser dresses are also becoming fashionable.

literature

• 1911: Thomas Mann publishes his work Death in Venice .
• 1912: The Reclam-Verlag sets up book machines for the first time in Erfurt for the sale of books.
• 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs publishes his work Tarzan .
• 1914: The short book Dubliner by James Joyce is published for the first time.
• 1917: The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for the first time.
• 1919: The New York publisher Joseph Medill Patterson brings the Daily News out the first daily newspaper in the small tabloid - newspaper format .
• George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion (1913)
• Bertolt Brecht : Baal (1918)
• Kurt Pinthus (Ed.) : Twilight of Man (1919)

Music and theater

• Dixieland Jazz
• Delta blues
• 1911: The Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss is premiered in Dresden.
• 1911: The March of Women by Ethel Smyth premieres at Pall Mall , London. Another performance will take place on March 23rd at the Royal Albert Hall , from where the song spread rapidly in England and became the anthem of the English suffragette movement .
• 1914: The world premiere of the opera Notre Dame by Franz Schmidt, based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, takes place at the Court Opera in Vienna after multiple rejection . The soprano Marie Gutheil-Schoder sings the role of Esmeralda. The work was Schmidt's greatest success, but was soon forgotten.

Hugo Ball at a performance in Cabaret Voltaire , 1916

• 1916: Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings found Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich , the birthplace of Dadaism . In June Ball will perform his first phonetic poem Gadji beri bimba here .
• 1916: Die Schneider von Schönau , a comic opera in three acts by the Dutch composer Jan Brandts-Buys with the libretto by Ignaz Michael Welleminsky , is premiered at the Dresden Court Opera. The opera gave the composer international success.
• 1916: The world premiere of the opera Das Höllisch Gold by Julius Bittner takes place in Darmstadt. The opera becomes the composer's greatest success.
• 1918: World premiere of the opera Die Gezeichen by Franz Schreker in Frankfurt am Main

Movie

• 1910: Probably the first in Hollywood film shot in Old California by director DW Griffith premieres in the United States.
• 1910: Urban Gad film Afgrunden ( depths ) is in Dusseldorf shown for the first time in Germany. The Danish film, in which Asta Nielsen celebrates her debut in the lead role, lasts 45 minutes and is considered to be the first full-length film in Europe.
• 1910: Frankenstein (the first film adaptation, as a short film)
• 1911: The Babelsberg film studio is founded.
• 1912: Carl Laemmle and others found the Universal Film Manufacturing Company , from which the film production company Universal Studios emerged.
• 1912: Oliver Twist (the first American feature film)
• 1913: The feature film Der Student von Prag with Paul Wegener in the title role is premiered in Berlin . It is considered to be the world's first auteur film and art film. The double exposure shots by cameraman Guido Seeber are considered to be an important step towards separating German film from theater towards a film-specific expression.
• 1914: The Paramount Pictures film studio is founded in Hollywood.

Movie poster for Dough and Dynamite

• 1914: Charlie Chaplin begins his screen career, he starts working at Keystone Studios . At the beginning of January, the shooting of his first film Wonderful Life , directed by Henry Lehrman , begins . On 7 and 9 February, the films are Kid Auto Races at Venice ( Soapbox Race in Venice ), which has been completed in just 45 minutes on January 10, and Mabel's Strange Predicament ( Mabel in embarrassing situation ) published in which Chaplin first time can be seen in the role of the tramp. This was followed by several films with Mabel Normand , but Chaplin repeatedly had problems with the directors and the leading actress. His first directorial debut, Caught in the Rain , will be released on May 4th . The film Dough and Dynamite by and with Charles Chaplin will be released at the end of October . Mack Sennett's feature film Tillie's Punctured Romance ( Tillie's troubled romance ) with Marie Dressler , Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand has its world premiere on 14 November. It is considered the first full-length comedy film in the United States. At the end of the year, Charlie Chaplin's engagement with Keystone Studios ends after 35 films because they refuse to accept his increased fee demands. In November, Chaplin signs a contract with Essanay, run by film pioneers George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson .

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Gertie the Dinosaur

• 1914: The short film Gertie the Dinosaur by Winsor McCay has its first performance at the Palace Theater in Chicago. The title character is considered the first real cartoon character that the animation helps to its commercial and artistic breakthrough.
• 1915: The silent film The Birth of a Nation by David Wark Griffith premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1916: The groundbreaking epic film Intolerance by David Wark Griffith is premiered .
• 1916: The vagabond with Charlie Chaplin
• 1917: Technicolor is used for the first time in two colors in the film The Gulf Between .
• 1917: With the first of four parts of Let there be light! (Director: Richard Oswald ) the first moral and educational film comes to the cinemas.
• 1919: Different from the others

broadcast

• In 1919 wireless transmission technology was first used publicly. Until then, radio broadcasting was a privilege of the military.
• Numerous small transmitters are being built in the USA and Europe.
• In Germany , the Reichspost secures its claim to radio communications and is outsourcing a new department for "radio telegraphy" from its old "telegraph and telephone system" department. Hans Bredow changes as ministerial director to the Reich Ministry of Post and begins to set up a "Reich radio network".
• A post memorandum summarizes the political concerns against the new medium in Germany: “A general release of the use of receiving devices to receive any messages, as has been done in some countries in which the state is involved in the transport of wireless messages in internal traffic not concerned, has his great concerns, because it would be technically possible for everyone to listen to all messages in the air. "

Sports

Olympic rings

• V. Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm 1912; July 6, 1912 to July 22, 1912.
• Foundation of several important sports and football clubs. Including Malmö FF , Hamburg-St. Pauli Turnverein (later name: FC St. Pauli ), FK Austria Wien , HNK Hajduk Split , VfB Stuttgart (through merger of two clubs), PSV Eindhoven and FC Valencia . The Norwegian football club Rosenborg Trondheim is founded under the name Odd . Hamburger SV is formed through the merger of the three clubs SC Germania 1887 , Hamburger FC 1888 and FC Falke 06 .
• 1911: The German Fencing Association is founded in Frankfurt am Main .
• 1911: Austrian football championship 1911/12 - The first Austrian football championship is brought into being, in which only Viennese clubs are entitled to participate. The first match will be played on September 3rd.
• 1911: The French Jacques Schneider initiates the Schneider Trophy , a race for seaplanes.
• 1911: The first Monte Carlo Rally , initiated by Albert I , begins. In Geneva, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Berlin, Vienna and Brussels, a total of 20 participants are heading towards Monaco . The Frenchman Henri Louis Rougier was the first overall winner.
• 1911: Out on the racetrack in Speedway (Indiana) , the first is the 500 mile race at Indianapolis for automobiles held. Ray Harroun wins on a Marmon Wasp .
• 1912: The American George Horine is the first to cross a height of two meters in a high jump in Palo Alto .
• 1914: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) hoists the official Olympic flag with the five rings for the first time at the 16th Olympic Congress .
• 1914: The International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ), founded in 1912 , publishes the first list of world records in athletics . Since the federation rejects women's sport, it only contains 95 men's world records.
• 1914: The Saint Petersburg chess tournament in 1914 is one of the most important international chess tournaments . The reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker wins it after a sometimes spectacular course.
• 1915: Because of the World War, the International Olympic Committee moves from Paris to Lausanne in neutral Switzerland.
• 1916: The Campeonato Sudamericano of 1916 was the first South American championship in football and thus the first continental championship for national football teams worldwide. Uruguay wins the tournament.
• 1917: Foundation of the National Hockey League . The first matchday is on December 19th.

society

• World expos
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  Poster for the 1911 World Exhibition in Turin.

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  Panoramic view of the exhibition space in Ghent, 1913.

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  Advertising poster for the World's Fair in San Francisco, 1915.

• World exhibitions in Brussels , Turin , Ghent and San Francisco . The world exhibition in Ghent was the last world exhibition before the First World War and the last world exhibition with a people show . Numerous colonies, including the Belgian Congo , have their own pavilion and are particularly intended to show Belgian imperialism in the best light.
• 1910: Virginia Stephen holds the so-called Dreadnought Prank with some of her friends .
• 1910: Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane , Washington state . Sonora Smart Dodd actually wants to honor their single father, based on the Mother's Day introduced in the USA , but sets a movement in motion.

Poster for the 1911 International Hygiene Exhibition

• 1911: At the suggestion of Odol -Fabrikanten Karl August Lingner is in the Municipal Exhibition Palace in Dresden , the International Hygiene Exhibition opened. It lasts until October 31 and is still the most popular exhibition in Dresden.
• 1911: The old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg is inaugurated.
• 1913: New York's Grand Central Terminal is inaugurated. It has been the largest train station in the world ever since.
• 1913: The first line of the Subterráneos de Buenos Aires , the first subway in South America and the entire southern hemisphere , built by the Compañía de Tranvías Anglo Argentina , is opened.

The first crossword puzzle

• 1913: The world's first crossword puzzle appears in the weekend supplement of New York World , invented by Arthur Wynne .

The animals hunted down during the Leipzig lion hunt in front of the police station

• 1913: As a consequence of a serious accident in Binz on Rügen, the German Life Saving Society is founded in Leipzig . The main goal of society is to keep people from drowning .
• 1913: Six lions escaped from a circus are killed in the “ Leipzig Lion Hunt ” in Leipzig .
• 1914: Despite a lack of evidence, Swedish migrant worker Joe Hill is found guilty of the murder of a grocer and his son in Salt Lake City . The case turns into one of the largest legal scandals in American history.

Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe .

• 1916: Anarchist and peace activist Emma Goldman is arrested in New York after giving a lecture on birth control . In October, Margaret Sanger , a nurse, opened the first US family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, New York City, along with her sister and a like-minded woman . Nine days later, the three women are arrested by the police.
• 1916: Shark attacks on the New Jersey coast .
• 1919: Spain's King Alfonso XIII. opens the first line of the Madrid Metro .
• 1919: Start of civil airmail in Germany. Airplanes took off twice a day from Berlin-Johannisthal to transport mail to the meeting place of the constituent national assembly in Weimar.
• 1919: Brit Eglantyne Jebb announces the founding of the children's charity Save the Children at the Royal Albert Hall in London . She and her sister collect donations to help children in Germany and Austria who are suffering from the consequences of the World War .
• 1919: The aviator Charles Godefroy crossed with a Nieuport 11 - biplane the Parisian Arc de Triomphe .
• 1919: Marie Juchacz founds the Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Germany under the name of the Main Committee for Workers' Welfare in the SPD .

Personalities

politics

Franz Joseph I (1830-1916)

• Franz Joseph I , Emperor in Austria-Hungary
• Franz Ferdinand , Crown Prince in Austria-Hungary
• George V , British King
• Kaiser Wilhelm II , German Emperor
• Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg , German Chancellor
• Raymond Poincaré , French President
• Meiji , emperor in Japan
• Woodrow Wilson , American President
• Max von Baden , heir to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden
• Friedrich Ebert , social democrat and politician
• Philipp Scheidemann , social democrat and politician
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , politician and revolutionary
• Karl Liebknecht , politician and revolutionary
• Rosa Luxemburg , politician and revolutionary

science

• Albert Einstein , theoretical physicist
• Roald Amundsen , polar explorer

music

• Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky , composer

Movie

• Charlie Chaplin , comedian, actor, director, composer and producer
• DW Griffith , actor, director and film producer
• Samuel Goldwyn , film producer

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winfried B. Lerg: The emergence of broadcasting in Germany (1965), p. 94, quoted. after Dussel, p. 25