1909–1911: Хроника событий и трагедий года

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February 1 – A coal mine explosion at the Browder Coal Company in Drakesboro, Kentucky kills 34 miners. February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners. February 5 – A coal mine explosion at the Jefferson Clearfield Coal Company mine at Ernest, Pennsylvania, kills 11 miners (10 Hungarian) but another 110 are able to escape. February 9 – French liner General Chanzy sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off Menorca, with only one survivor of the 157 on board. February 12 – Chinese expedition to Tibet: A force of 2,000 Chinese troops march into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet; the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, is forced to flee to British India. February 13 – The strike, begun on November 23, 1909, by 20,000 women against New York City's shirtwaist (blouse) factories ends after 339 manufacturers agree to a reduced workweek (52 hours a week rather than 56), increased wages and labor union recognition. February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native born Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo.

April 5 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated. April 10 – Halley's Comet becomes visible with the naked eye (perihelion: April 20); Earth passes through its tail about May 19 (its next visit will be in 1986).

May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII. May 12 – The second National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting is held in New York City. May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created.

June 2 – Charles Rolls became the first person to fly across the English Channel and back without stopping. June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern day Oslo) without fanfare, and no announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole. June 5 – The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China. June 6 – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established. June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement. June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole. June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours. June 25 – The ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.

July – First Girl Guide troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Agnes Baden Powell. July 4 – African American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. July 9–10 – 'Fowler's match': the Eton v Harrow cricket match at Lord's ground in London, known after the captain of Eton College, Robert St Leger Fowler, and described as "what might just be the greatest cricket match of all time". July 11 – Departure for France of Amenokal Moussa Ag Amastan as part of the Tuareg mission. July 12 – Charles Rolls becomes the first British aviation fatality when his French built Wright aeroplane suffers a broken rudder at an altitude of 80 feet (24 m) and crashes during a contest at Bournemouth. July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Crippen. July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August – The International Commercial Bureau of the American Republics becomes the Pan American Union. August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 world's fair destroys exhibitions of Britain and France. August 20 – The Great Fire of 1910 ("Big Blowup"), a wildfire that burns 4,700 square miles in the Inland Northwest of the United States, due to dry weather. August 22 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, by which the Empire of Japan formally annexes the Korean Empire, is signed (it becomes effectively void in 1945, which is formally recognised in 1965). August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.
August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished. August 31 – Gafanha da Nazaré is founded by Prior Sardo and becomes the last Portuguese town to receive royal charter from the monarchy, granted by King Manuel II.

November 7 – The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. November 14 – In the first takeoff from a ship by a fixed wing aircraft, Eugene Ely takes off from a temporary platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia. November 18 – Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside the Parliament of the United Kingdom over the failure of the Conciliation Bill. November 20 – The Mexican Revolution begins, when Francisco I. Madero proclaims the elections of 1910 null and void, and calls for an armed revolution at 6 p. m. against the illegitimate presidency/dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. November 22 – Revolt of the Lash at Rio de Janeiro: Mutineers in the Brazilian Navy, led by João Cândido Felisberto, seize control of the new dreadnought battleship Minas Geraes and other ships, whose guns are aimed at the city as the crews demand improvements in their conditions (which are conceded on November 26 by the Brazilian government). November 23 – Murderer Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. December 10 – Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West has its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Arturo Toscanini and starring Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn. December 19 – The second 1910 United Kingdom general election (the last to be fought with an all male electorate) concludes with confirmation of a majority for the Liberal Party in alliance with the Irish Parliamentary Party, resolving the battle of wills between the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the House of Lords by giving a majority for restriction of the powers of the Lords and support for the Irish Home Rule movement. December 21 – Pretoria Pit disaster: a coal mine explosion at the Hulton Colliery Company of Westhoughton in Lancashire, England, kills 344 miners, with just one survivor.

Autumn – English born comedians Charlie Chaplin and Stan Jefferson, later known as Stan Laurel, embark from Southampton on the same ship, SS Cairnrona, on their first trip to North America, as part of Fred Karno's comedy troupe. The electric streetcars of Austria Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year. Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles. Hitachi, an electromechanics company, is founded as a mining machine repair factory in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Fawzi Al Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1962)

January 1 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist (b. 1837)
January 4 – Léon Delagrange, French pioneer aviator (b. 1873)
January 5 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
January 12 – Bass Reeves, one of the first African American Deputy U. S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River (b. 1838)
January 13 – Andrew Jackson Davis, American spiritualist (b. 1826)
January 25 – W. G. Read Mullan, American Jesuit, academic (b. 1860)
January 27 – Thomas Crapper, British plumber (b. 1836)
January 29 – Sir Charles Todd, Australian telegraph pioneer (b. 1826)
January 30 – Granville Woods, African American inventor (b. 1856)

February 6 – Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian Roman Catholic priest, saint (b. 1839)
February 7 – Elizabeth Martha Olmsted, American poet (b. 1825)
February 9 – Miguel Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother (b. 1854)
February 10 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist (b. 1831)
February 10 – Dirk van Raalte, American Union soldier and politician (b. 1844)
February 14 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)
February 20 – Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1846)
February 23 – Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1864)
February 26 – Esther E. Baldwin, American missionary (b. 1840)

March 1 – José Domingo de Obaldía, 2nd President of Panama (b. 1845)
March 4 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
March 9 – Fredrik von Otter, 8th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1833)
March 10 – Karl Lueger, Austrian mayor (b. 1844)
March 18 – Julio Herrera y Reissig, Uruguayan poet, writer (b. 1875)
March 20 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
March 26 – An Jung geun, Korean assassin (b. 1879)
March 27 – Alexander Agassiz, American scientist (b. 1835)
March 28 – David Josiah Brewer, American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1837)
March 29 – H. Maria George Colby, American fashion editor (b. 1844)
March 30 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856)

May 1 – Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti (b. 1820)
May 3 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
May 10 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist (b. 1826)
May 12 – Sir William Huggins, British astronomer (b. 1824)
May 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo soprano, composer (b. 1821)
May 22 – Jules Renard, French writer (b. 1864)
May 27 – Robert Koch, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
May 28 – Kálmán Mikszáth, Hungarian novelist (b. 1847)
May 29 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, British born American physician (b. 1821)

June 5 – William Sydney Porter (alias O. Henry), American novelist (b. 1862)
June 7 – Goldwin Smith, British born Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1823)
June 8 – Henry Granger Piffard, New York dermatologist and author of the first systematic treatise on dermatology in America (b. 1842)
June 11 – Maria Schininà, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed (b. 1844)
June 24 – Juan Williams Rebolledo, Chilean admiral and politician (b. 1825)

Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet and teacher (b. 1826)

New International Year Book 1910 970pp of detailed global coverage. Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 206–24.