Editing 1910 (section)

== Events ==
[[File:Comet-Halley's-tail-NASA-1986-b&w.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Halley's Comet]]'s tail]]
=== January ===
{{Main|January 1910}}
* [[January 6]] – [[Abé language|Abé]] people in the [[French West Africa]] colony of [[Côte d'Ivoire]] rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.<ref>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Manning|title=Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, 1880–1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1998|pages=64–65}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – By the [[Treaty of Punakha]], the Himalayan kingdom of [[Bhutan]] becomes a [[protectorate]] of the British Empire.<ref>{{cite book|first=A. C.|last=Sinha|title=Bhutan: Tradition, Transition and Transformation|publisher=Indus Publishing|year=2001|page=102}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] – [[Charcot Island]] is discovered by the [[Antarctic]] expedition led by French explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charcot]] on the ship ''[[Pourquoi-Pas (1908)|Pourquoi Pas?]]''<ref>{{cite book|first=Jeff|last=Rubin|title=Antarctica|publisher=Lonely Planet|year=2008|page=50}}</ref> Charcot returns from his expedition on February 11.
* [[January 12]] – [[Great January Comet of 1910]] first observed ([[perihelion]]: January 17).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bortle|first=J.|title=The Bright Comet Chronicles|website=harvard.edu|url=http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/bortle.html|access-date=2008-11-18|archive-date=May 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514011923/http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/bortle.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – Amidst the [[constitutional crisis]] caused by the [[House of Lords]] rejecting the [[People's Budget]] the [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election]] is held resulting in a [[hung parliament]] with neither Liberals nor Conservatives gaining a majority.<ref>{{citation |last=Blewett |first=Neal | author-link = Neal Blewett |title=The Peers, the Parties and the People: The General Elections of 1910 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan London |year=1972 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-00652-6|isbn=978-1-349-00654-0 }}</ref>
* [[January 21]] – [[1910 Great Flood of Paris|The Great Flood of Paris]] begins when the [[Seine]] overflows its banks.<ref>{{cite book|first=Heather|last=Stimmler-Hall|title=Paris & Île-de-France|publisher=Windsor|year=2004|page=16}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – Completion of construction of New York City's [[Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower]], at {{Convert|700|ft}} the world's tallest building at this time, is celebrated.<ref>{{cite news|title=Metropolitan Life Has Jubilee Dinner|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1910-01-23|page=12}}</ref>
* [[January 31]]
** A coal mine [[explosion]] at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in [[Primero, Colorado]], kills 75 miners.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cherry Mine Disaster Duplicated in Colorado|newspaper=Colorado Springs Gazette|date=1910-02-01|page=1}}</ref>
** American-born medical practitioner [[Hawley Harvey Crippen]] poisons his wife, Cora, and buries her body in the cellar of their London home (probable date).<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>

=== February ===
{{Main|February 1910}}
* [[February 1]] – A coal mine explosion at the Browder Coal Company in [[Drakesboro, Kentucky]] kills 34 miners.<ref name="AROR March 1910">{{cite journal|title=Record of Current Events|journal=The American Monthly Review of Reviews|date=March 1910|pages=289–93}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of [[Coahuila]] in Mexico kills 68 miners.<ref name="AROR March 1910"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Mine Blast Kills 70 — Cigarette Blamed for Disaster|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1910-02-03|page=1}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Indiana University of Pennsylvania Libraries|url=http://www.lib.iup.edu/spec_coll/articles/ernest_mine_disaster.html|title=The Ernest Mine Disaster of 1916|first=Eileen Mountjoy|last=Cooper|date=2022-05-15|accessdate=2023-04-01|via=[[Wayback Machine]]|archive-date=August 16, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090816164838/http://www.lib.iup.edu/spec_coll/articles/ernest_mine_disaster.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[February 8]] – The [[Boy Scouts of America]] youth organization is incorporated by publisher, adventurer and philanthropist [[William D. Boyce]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rowan|first=Edward L.|title=To Do My Best: James E. West and the History of the Boy Scouts of America|publisher=Publishing Works, Inc|year=2005|isbn=978-0974647913|location=Exeter, NH}}</ref>
* [[February 9]] – French liner ''General Chanzy'' sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off [[Menorca]], with only one survivor of the 157 on board.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/02/13/105074719.pdf|title=Dead From Wreck Line Menorca Coast|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1910-02-13|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10834896|title=Marine Disasters. Wreck of the ''General Chanzy''|newspaper=The Argus|location=Melbourne|issue=19835|date=1910-02-15|accessdate=2022-12-27|page=7|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
* [[February 12]] – [[Chinese expedition to Tibet (1910)|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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Alex|last=McKay|title=Tibet and the British Raj: The Frontier Cadre, 1904–1947|publisher=Routledge|year=1997|pages=46–47}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/uprising-of-20000-1909|title=Uprising of 20,000 (1909)|work=Jewish Women's Archive|access-date=April 1, 2023|archive-date=April 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403215618/https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/uprising-of-20000-1909|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Boutros Ghali]], the first native-born [[Prime Minister of Egypt]], is assassinated in Cairo.

=== March ===
{{Main|March 1910}}
* [[March]] – [[Albanian revolt of 1910]]: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in [[Ottoman Albania|Albania]].
* [[March 1]] – The [[Wellington, Washington avalanche]] sweeps away two [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)]] [[passenger train]]s in the [[Cascade Mountains]], killing 96, making it the worst [[snowslide]] accident in [[United States]] history.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gary|last=Krist|author-link=Gary Krist (writer)|title=The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche|publisher=Henry Holt & Co|year=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The 10 Worst Snow Disasters in History|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-10-worst-snow-disaste|date=2004-02-16|journal=[[Scientific American]]|access-date=2012-01-03|archive-date=November 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104221030/http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-10-worst-snow-disaste|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – [[Morocco]] signs accords with France in Paris, permitting the French to occupy [[Casablanca]] and [[Oujda]] in return for military training, as part of refinancing of loans.<ref>{{cite book|first=C. R.|last=Pennell|title=Morocco Since 1830: A History|publisher=New York University Press|year=2000|page=147}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – The [[1910 Rogers Pass avalanche|Rogers Pass avalanche]] buries a group of [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] workers clearing tracks in the [[Selkirk Mountains]] at [[Rogers Pass (British Columbia)]], making it the worst snowslide accident in Canadian history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/Disasters-of-the-century-Rogers-Pass-Avalanche|title=Disasters of the century – Rogers Pass Avalanche|publisher=Factual TV|access-date=April 1, 2023|archive-date=April 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420083006/http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/Disasters-of-the-century-Rogers-Pass-Avalanche|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 8]] – In [[France]], [[Raymonde de Laroche]] is awarded [[Pilot's license]] No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.<ref>{{cite book|first=Eileen F.|last=Lebow|title=Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation|url=https://archive.org/details/beforeameliawome00lebo|url-access=registration|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Brassey's, Inc.|year=2002|isbn=1-57488-482-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/beforeameliawome00lebo/page/14 14]}}</ref>
* [[March 10]]
** [[Slavery in China]], which has existed since the [[Shang dynasty]], is now made illegal.
** [[Nazareth Baptist Church]], an [[African-initiated church]], is founded by Prophet [[Isaiah Shembe]] in South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8458829.stm|title=Unholy row over World Cup trumpet|access-date=2010-01-16|last=Fisher|first=Jonah|date=2010-01-16|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|archive-date=July 11, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711124139/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8458829.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 12]] – American actress [[Florence Lawrence]] becomes "the first true movie star" after being named in advertisements, having previously been billed only as "The Biograph Girl".<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Robinson|title=From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1996|pages=159–161}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – Progressive Republicans in the [[United States House of Representatives]] rebel against Speaker [[Joseph Gurney Cannon]], removing him from the Rules Committee and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.
* [[March 18]] – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's ''[[Frankenstein (1910 film)|Frankenstein]]'' comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor [[Charles Stanton Ogle|Charles Ogle]] (unbilled) as the monster.
* [[March 20]] – The first clinic for treatment of [[occupational disease]]s is opened in [[Milan]] (Italy).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fielding|first1=H.|last2=Garrison|first2=M. D.|title=An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data|publisher=W.B. Saunders Co.|year=1917|page=775}}</ref>
* [[March 22]] – [[President of the United States]] [[William H. Taft]] gives an American endorsement in favor of creating a "World Court" for the resolution of disputes between nations.<ref>{{cite book|first=Merle Eugene|last=Curti|title=Peace or War: The American Struggle, 1636-1936|publisher=W. W. Norton|year=1936|page=222|quote=the most dramatic event in the history of arbitration in the prewar years.}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – A rebellion by Rif tribesmen in Spanish Morocco is finally suppressed after 8 months. During the conflict, an estimated 8,000 Berbers and 2,000 Spanish soldiers have been killed.
* [[March 27]] – A fire during a barn-dance in [[Ököritófülpös]], Hungary, kills 312 people after ballroom decorations catch alight.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fire Toll May Reach 400|newspaper=Indianapolis Star|date=1910-03-29|page=2}}</ref>

=== April ===
{{Main|April 1910}}
* [[April 5]] – The [[Transandine Railway]] connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/w3-article-8094.html?_noredirect=1 |title=Expansión ferroviaria en Chile |access-date=2021-02-23 |website=Colecciones digitales |publisher=[[Archivo Nacional de Chile]] |language=Spanish |archive-date=February 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213062916/https://www.archivonacional.gob.cl/616/w3-article-8094.html?_noredirect=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 10]] – [[Halley's Comet]] becomes visible with the naked eye ([[perihelion]]: April 20);<ref>{{cite web|title=Great Comets in History|first=Donald Keith|last=Yeomans|publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory|url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?great_comets|year=1998|access-date=2007-03-15|archive-date=February 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204054558/http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?great_comets|url-status=live}}</ref> Earth passes through its tail about May 19<ref>{{cite web|year=1985|title=Through the comet's tail|work=Revised extracts from "A Comet Called Halley", published by Cambridge University Press in 1985|first=Ian|last=Ridpath|url=http://www.ianridpath.com/halley/halley12.htm|access-date=2011-06-19|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414130605/http://www.ianridpath.com/halley/halley12.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> (its next visit will be in [[1986]]).

=== May ===
{{Main|May 1910}}
[[File:King George 1923 LCCN2014715558 (cropped).jpg|150px|thumb| [[May 6]]: [[George V|King George V]]]]
* [[May 6]] – [[George V]] becomes King of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] upon the [[Death and state funeral of Edward VII|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 ===
{{Main|June 1910}}
* [[June 2]] – [[Charles Rolls]] became the first person to fly across the [[English Channel]] and back without stopping.<ref name="Pocket On This Day"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Flies English Channel Twice|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1910-06-03|page=1}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] – [[Amundsen's South Pole expedition|The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition]], led by [[Roald Amundsen]] on the steamer ''[[Fram (ship)|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.<ref>Paul Simpson-Housley, ''Antarctica: Exploration, Perception, and Metaphor'' (Routledge, 1992), p26</ref>
* [[June 5]] – The [[Nanyang industrial exposition]] ("[[Nanking]] Exposition"), an official [[world's fair]], opens in [[Qing dynasty]] [[China]].<ref>HK.huaxia.com. "[http://hk.huaxia.com/zhwh/gjzt/2010/04/1853085.html HK.huaxia.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912062448/http://hk.huaxia.com/zhwh/gjzt/2010/04/1853085.html |date=September 12, 2012 }}." 南洋勸業會：南京一個世紀前的世博會. Retrieved 2010-05-08.</ref><ref>Big5.xinhuanet.com. "[http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-04/30/c_13274125.htm Xinhuanet.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609055641/http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-04/30/c_13274125.htm |date=June 9, 2011 }}." 南京舉辦《跨越歷史的牽手--中國與世博會》圖片展. Retrieved 2010-05-08.</ref>
* [[June 6]] – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established.<ref>[https://krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue/mco/1910-06-06/edition/0/page/7?query=Compagnie%20van%20Bet&sort=relevance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064250/https://krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue/mco/1910-06-06/edition/0/page/7?query=Compagnie%20van%20Bet&sort=relevance|date=March 26, 2018}} 6 June 1910, page 7, ''Middelburgsche Courant'', Krantenbank, Zeeland.</ref>
* [[June 14]]–[[June 23|23]] – [[Edinburgh Missionary Conference]] is held in Scotland, presided over by [[John Mott]], launching the modern [[Christian ecumenism|ecumenical movement]] and the modern [[Mission (Christian)|missions]] movement.
* [[June 15]] – [[Terra Nova Expedition|The British Antarctic Expedition]], led by [[Robert Falcon Scott]] on the whaler ''[[Terra Nova (ship)|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 [[German Empire|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 [[Sergei Diaghilev|Diaghilev]]'s [[Ballets Russes]], is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.<ref>{{cite book |first=Harold C. |last=Schonberg |title=The Lives of the Great Composers |url=https://archive.org/details/livesofgreatcomp00scho_1 |url-access=registration |publisher=Norton |year=1997 |page=[https://archive.org/details/livesofgreatcomp00scho_1/page/479 479]|isbn=9780393038576 }}</ref>

=== July ===
{{Main|July 1910}}
* July – First [[Girlguiding|Girl Guide]] troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of [[Agnes Baden-Powell]].<ref name="Women's History Timeline" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Guides|work=Leslie's Guiding Hisxtory Site|url=https://lesliesguidinghistory.webs.com/guides.htm|accessdate=2021-02-06|archive-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307160303/https://lesliesguidinghistory.webs.com/guides.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 4]] – [[African-American]] boxer [[Jack Johnson (boxer)|Jack Johnson]] defeats white American boxer [[James J. Jeffries]] in a [[heavyweight boxing]] match, sparking [[race riot]]s across the United States.
* [[July 9]]–[[July 10|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".<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2010/06/fowlers-match-100-years-on/|title=Fowler's match: 100 years on|date=23 June 2010|access-date=2010-07-08|journal=[[The Spectator]]|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103170428/https://www.spectator.co.uk/2010/06/fowlers-match-100-years-on/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] – Departure for France of [[Amenokal]] [[Moussa Ag Amastan]] as part of the [[Tuareg]] mission.<ref>{{cite book|first=Valérie|last=Chébiri|year=2019|url=https://www.editions-saint-honore.com/produit/mission-touareg-ou-le-voyage-en-france-de-lamenokal-moussa-ag-amastan/|title=Mission Touareg, ou le voyage de l'Aménokal Moussa ag Amastan|location=Paris|publisher=Editions Saint-Honoré|access-date=May 22, 2022|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503131348/https://www.editions-saint-honore.com/produit/mission-touareg-ou-le-voyage-en-france-de-lamenokal-moussa-ag-amastan/|url-status=dead}} See also SMDBast Production on YouTube.</ref>
* [[July 12]] – [[Charles Rolls]] becomes the first British aviation fatality when his French-built Wright aeroplane suffers a broken rudder at an altitude of {{convert|80|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} and crashes during a contest at [[Bournemouth]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Daniel, Clifton|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|location=Mount Kisco, NY|publisher=Chronicle Publications|year=1987|isbn=0-942191-01-3|page=139|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00moun}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – A [[wireless]] telegraph sent from the {{SS|Montrose|1897|6}} results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer [[Dr. Crippen]].
* [[July 24]] – [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces capture the city of [[Shkodër]] to put down the [[Albanian Revolt of 1910]].

=== August ===
{{Main|August 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]] – [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]] is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under [[Nicholas I of Montenegro|Nicholas I]].
* [[August 29]] – Emperor [[Sunjong of Korea]] abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.
* [[August 31]] – [[Gafanha da Nazaré]] is founded by [[João Ferreira Sardo|Prior Sardo]] and becomes the last Portuguese town to receive a ''[[foral]]'' (royal charter) from the [[List of Portuguese monarchs|monarchy]], granted by [[Manuel II of Portugal|King Manuel II]].<ref>''Diário do Governo'' no. 206 (16 September 1910). {{cite book|last=Rezende|first=João Vieira|title=Monografia da Gafanha|publisher=Gráfica Ilhavense|year=1936|location=Ílhavo|language=pt}}</ref>

=== September ===
{{Main|September 1910}}
* [[September 1]]
** The [[Holy See|Vatican]] introduces a compulsory [[oath against modernism]] (''Sacrorum antistitum''), to be taken by all priests upon [[ordination]].
** [[Sport Club Corinthians Paulista]] is founded in [[Brazil]] by railwaymen; its Association football team will be the first [[FIFA Club World Cup]] champions in 2000.

=== October ===
{{Main|October 1910}}
* [[October]]
** [[Infrared photography|Infrared photographs]] are first published by Professor [[Robert Williams Wood]], in the [[Royal Photographic Society]]'s journal.
** Approximate date of origin of [[Manchurian plague]], a form of [[pneumonic plague]] which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2011-01-14/130221815935.shtml |title=Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague |work=Sina.com |language=zh |access-date=January 14, 2011 |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028165551/http://news.sina.com.cn/c/sd/2011-01-14/130221815935.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Mark |last=Gamsa |title=The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910–1911 |journal=[[Past & Present (journal)|Past & Present]] | date=February 2006 |issue=190 |pages=147–183 |doi=10.1093/pastj/gtj001}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Goh, L. G. |author2=Ho, T. M. |author3=Phua, K. H. |title=Wisdom and Western Science: The Work of Dr Wu Lien-Teh |journal=[[Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health]] | doi=10.1177/101053958700100123 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=99–109 |series=Historical Milestones |date=January 1987 |pmid=3330665|s2cid=33328996 }}</ref>
* [[October 5]] – [[5 October 1910 revolution]]: The [[First Portuguese Republic]] is proclaimed in [[Lisbon]]; King [[Manuel II of Portugal]] flees to England.
* [[October 7]] – [[Baudette fire of 1910]], a wildfire that burns ca. 350,000 square miles in [[Minnesota]] and [[Ontario]], including several towns.
* [[October 18]] – The [[lake freighter]] [[SS William C. Moreland|SS ''William C. Moreland'']] runs aground on a reef near the [[Keweenaw Peninsula]] in [[Lake Superior]], leading to its loss.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meier |first1=Skip |title=Great Lakes Ships to be Remembered No. 35: William C. Moreland |journal=The Detroit Marine Historian |date=November 2011 |volume=65 |issue=3 |url=http://www.mhsd.org/historian11-11.pdf |publisher=Marine Historical Society of Detroit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108032236/http://www.mhsd.org/historian11-11.pdf |archive-date=8 November 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[October 20]] – The hull of [[White Star Line|White Star]] [[ocean liner]] {{RMS|Olympic}} is launched, at the [[Harland and Wolff]] shipyards in [[Belfast]].
* [[October 23]]
** [[Vajiravudh]] (Rama VI) is crowned [[King of Siam]], after the death of his father, King [[Chulalongkorn]] (Rama V).
** The [[Philadelphia Athletics]] defeat the [[Chicago Cubs]], 7–2, to win the [[1910 World Series]] in baseball in Game 5 ([[Jack Coombs]] has been the winning pitcher in three of the Athletics' four wins).

=== November ===
{{Main|November 1910}}
* [[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, Ohio|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 (CL-2)|USS ''Birmingham'']] in [[Hampton Roads, Virginia]].
* [[November 18]] – [[Black Friday (1910)|Black Friday]]: 300 [[suffragette]]s clash with police outside the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] over the failure of the [[Conciliation Bills|Conciliation Bill]].<ref name="Women's History Timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml|publisher=BBC Radio 4|work=Woman's Hour|title=Women's History Timeline: 1910–1919|access-date=April 1, 2023|archive-date=October 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002160848/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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]] [[Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes|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 ===
{{Main|December 1910}}
* [[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]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Great Welcome for New Opera|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1910-12-11|page=1}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – The [[December 1910 United Kingdom general election|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 (UK)|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]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=George Dangerfield|first=George|last=Dangerfield|title=[[The Strange Death of Liberal England]]|year=1935}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Westhoughton/Pretoria/index.html|title=The Pretoria Pit Disaster|work=The Parish of Westhoughton|access-date=2010-10-13|archive-date=July 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090726042004/http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Westhoughton/Pretoria/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

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* 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel's Southampton departure|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9018000/9018887.stm|date=2010-09-21|accessdate=2023-01-01|publisher=BBC|archive-date=June 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627201600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9018000/9018887.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The electric streetcars of [[Austria-Hungary]], France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7&nbsp;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]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hitachi Origin Story|url=https://www.hitachi.com/corporate/origin/story.html?e=1910_right|publisher=Hitachi|accessdate=2023-08-19|archive-date=August 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819220414/https://www.hitachi.com/corporate/origin/story.html?e=1910_right|url-status=live}}</ref>