American-born medical practitioner
Hawley Harvey Crippen poisons his wife, Cora, and buries her body in the cellar of their London home (probable date).[8]
February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of
Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.[9][10]
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.[11]
February 9 – French liner General Chanzy sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off
Menorca, with only one survivor of the 157 on board.[12][13]
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.[15]
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.[18]
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".[22]
March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor
Charles Ogle (unbilled) as the monster.
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.[25]
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 meters) and crashes during a contest at
Bournemouth.[39]
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.[47]
The electric streetcars of
Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.
^Robinson, David (1996). From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–161.
^Fielding, H.; Garrison, M. D. (1917). An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data. W.B. Saunders Co. p. 775.
^Curti, Merle Eugene (1936). Peace or War: The American Struggle, 1636-1936. W. W. Norton. p. 222. the most dramatic event in the history of arbitration in the prewar years.
^"Fire Toll May Reach 400". Indianapolis Star. March 29, 1910. p. 2.
^Yeomans, Donald Keith (1998).
"Great Comets in History". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
^Ridpath, Ian (1985).
"Through the comet's tail". Revised extracts from "A Comet Called Halley", published by Cambridge University Press in 1985.
Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
^"Flies English Channel Twice". The New York Times. June 3, 1910. p. 1.
^Paul Simpson-Housley, Antarctica: Exploration, Perception, and Metaphor (Routledge, 1992), p26
^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from
the original(PDF) on September 27, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2019.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link)
^"Great Welcome for New Opera". The New York Times. December 11, 1910. p. 1.
American-born medical practitioner
Hawley Harvey Crippen poisons his wife, Cora, and buries her body in the cellar of their London home (probable date).[8]
February 2 – A coal mine explosion at the Palau mine at Las Esperanzas in the State of
Coahuila in Mexico kills 68 miners.[9][10]
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.[11]
February 9 – French liner General Chanzy sinks in the Mediterranean after striking rocks off
Menorca, with only one survivor of the 157 on board.[12][13]
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.[15]
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.[18]
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".[22]
March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor
Charles Ogle (unbilled) as the monster.
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.[25]
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 meters) and crashes during a contest at
Bournemouth.[39]
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.[47]
The electric streetcars of
Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.
^Robinson, David (1996). From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–161.
^Fielding, H.; Garrison, M. D. (1917). An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data. W.B. Saunders Co. p. 775.
^Curti, Merle Eugene (1936). Peace or War: The American Struggle, 1636-1936. W. W. Norton. p. 222. the most dramatic event in the history of arbitration in the prewar years.
^"Fire Toll May Reach 400". Indianapolis Star. March 29, 1910. p. 2.
^Yeomans, Donald Keith (1998).
"Great Comets in History". Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
^Ridpath, Ian (1985).
"Through the comet's tail". Revised extracts from "A Comet Called Halley", published by Cambridge University Press in 1985.
Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
^"Flies English Channel Twice". The New York Times. June 3, 1910. p. 1.
^Paul Simpson-Housley, Antarctica: Exploration, Perception, and Metaphor (Routledge, 1992), p26
^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived from
the original(PDF) on September 27, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2019.{{
cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link)
^"Great Welcome for New Opera". The New York Times. December 11, 1910. p. 1.