Events[]
- By this year there are few signs in San Francisco of the 1906 earthquake.[1]
- Austria becomes the official name of Austria-Hungary for the first time.[2]
- George Smith Patton, Jr. begins first military assignment, patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border.[3]
- Bronislaw Malinowski begins studying the Trobriand Islanders.[3]
- Paul Robeson joins the Rutgers University football team but is attacked by his racist teammates.[4]
- A second construction work on Pearl Harbor begins.[5]
- Poincare's government bans the wearing of costly gowns and jewelry at the Opera, the Odeon, and the Comedie Franchise.[6]
- Vacuum tubes introduced into telephone systems for better cross-country and transatlantic communications.[7]
- Basics of sonar become available.[7]
- The US Supreme Court rules that Edison and his partners have violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.[8]
- D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation is released to theaters.[3]
- William Fox sets up a little studio in Hollywood that becomes 20th Century Fox. Carl Laemmle opens Universal Studios.[8]
- Chinese constitution drawn up, but provincial rulers block enactment.[7]
- The Nantao district is separated from the International Settlements of Shanghai by a three mile-long wall.[9]
- Women begin using lipstick.[7]
- Phillip James Blumburtt is sent to the Pankot region.[9]
- Venustiano Carranza becomes president of Mexico.[10]
- New Orleans jazz players begin emigrating from to Chicago. (Approximate)[11]
- January:
- January-March: Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. Allies land, but fail to control the Dardenelles strait.[7]
- February 18: Germany begins submarine blockade of Great Britain.[7]
- Spring: The Celtic Scholar publishes Charles B. Hawken's discovery of the Abergavenney manuscript.[13]
- March: Italy enters the war against its former allies.[14]
- April
- Remy Baudouin enlists with Pancho Villa's army.[15]
- Turks massacre and deport thousands of Armenians, whom they accuse of aiding Russia.[7]
- April 22: Second Battle of Ypres. Germans introduce poison gas to warfare.[7]
- May
- May-October: German and Austrian forces rout Russian army.[7]
- Summer: Indiana spends summer break working as a coal shoveler on a train.[16]
- July 9: German SW African forces fall to British attacks.[7]
- August
- August 4-7: Germans take Warsaw.[7]
- August 25: Germans capture Brest-Litovsk.[7]
- September
- Battles of Champagne and Loos. British and French offensives fail.[7]
- September 19: Austro-German conquests of Poland, Lithuania and Kurland are nearly complete and Vilnius falls.[7]
- September 25-0ctober 15: Third Battle of Artois. British finally employ poison gas, but battle still ends in a stalemate.[7]
- October 5: Allied troops land in Greece.[7]
- October 15: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.[7]
- November: Gertrude Bell joins the British Intelligence Service.[3]
- December
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