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=== January === {{Main|January 1911}} [[File:Siege of Sidney Street β Churchill.jpg|thumb|right|[[January 3]]: [[Siege of Sidney Street]] in London]] * [[January 1]] – A decade after federation, the [[Northern Territory]] and the [[Australian Capital Territory]] are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * [[January 3]] ** [[1911 Kebin earthquake]]: An earthquake of 7.7 [[Moment magnitude scale|moment magnitude]] strikes near [[Almaty]] in [[Russian Turkestan]], killing 450 or more people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake|work=[[Pittsburgh Press]]|date=1911-01-05|page=1}}</ref> ** [[Siege of Sidney Street]] in London: Two [[Latvian people|Latvian]] anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. [[Home Secretary]] [[Winston Churchill]] arrives to oversee events. * [[January 4]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Robert Falcon Scott]]'s British [[Terra Nova Expedition|''Terra Nova'' Expedition]] to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at [[Cape Evans]] on [[Ross Island]]. * [[January 5]] – Egypt's [[Zamalek SC]] is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer [[George Merzbach]] as Qasr El Nile Club. * [[January 14]] – [[Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott expeditions|Amundsen and Scott expeditions]]: [[Roald Amundsen]]'s Norwegian South Pole expedition arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at the [[Bay of Whales]] on the eastern edge of the [[Ross Ice Shelf]]. * [[January 18]] – [[Eugene B. Ely]] lands on the deck of the [[USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] stationed in [[San Francisco]] harbor, the first time an aircraft has landed on a ship. * [[January 26]] – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement. * First [[Monte Carlo Rally]] inaugurated.
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