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1910

Years :	1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
Years:	1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
January 16 - Constant rains in Paris, France cause the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro become filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
February 20 - Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
March 19 - In America, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
April 27 - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found South Africa Party.
April 27 - British House of Commons passes David Lloyd George's (1909) 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
April 29 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 11 - U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa.
June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship.
July 2 - Demonstrations in France against public executions.
July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.

August 14 - fire at World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
August 28 - Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
September 16 - Australian Treasury given authority to issue currency, replacing the use of the British Pound.
October 1 - bomb explodes on the Los Angeles Times building - 21 dead, several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara later arrested and sentenced.
October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
October 10 - Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
October 18 - Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of Greece.

November 7 - First air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
November 23 - Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
December - British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
December 12 - New York socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the police until six weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
December 16 - In Houndsditch District, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.