Editing 1910 (section)

=== 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>