1911

1911 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1911; MCMXI
Ab urbe condita	2664
Armenian calendar	1360; ԹՎ ՌՅԿ
Assyrian calendar	6661
Bahá'í calendar	67–68
Balinese saka calendar	1832–1833
Bengali calendar	1318
Berber calendar	2861
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 5 – 2 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2455
Burmese calendar	1273
Byzantine calendar	7419–7420
Chinese calendar	庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4607 or 4547; — to —; 辛亥年 (Metal Pig); 4608 or 4548
Coptic calendar	1627–1628
Discordian calendar	3077
Ethiopian calendar	1903–1904
Hebrew calendar	5671–5672
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1967–1968
- Shaka Samvat	1832–1833
- Kali Yuga	5011–5012
Holocene calendar	11911
Igbo calendar	911–912
Iranian calendar	1289–1290
Islamic calendar	1329–1330
Japanese calendar	Meiji 44; (明治４４年)
Javanese calendar	1840–1841
Juche calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4244
Minguo calendar	1 before ROC; 民前1年
Nanakshahi calendar	443
Thai solar calendar	2453–2454
Tibetan calendar	阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 2037 or 1656 or 884; — to —; 阴金猪年; (female Iron-Pig); 2038 or 1657 or 885

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century; 20th century ; 21st century;
Decades:	1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
Years:	1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914;

1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

A highlight was the race for the South Pole.

Sketch by Marguerite Martyn of 1911 women's fashion styles

January 3: Siege of Sidney Street

Events[edit]

January[edit]

Through mid-January (starting 31 December) – The first Industrial Airplane Show is held in conjunction with the U.S. International Auto Show, at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace in New York.^[1] Charles W. Chappelle (1872–1941), a member of the U.S. Aeronautical Reserve, is the only African-American to invent and display an airplane, for which he wins a medal.^[2]
January 3
- 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.^[3]
- Siege of Sidney Street: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events.
January 5 – Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity is founded at Indiana University Bloomington.^[4]
January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 18 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.
January 26 – The United States and Canada announce the successful negotiation of their first reciprocal trade agreement.
January 30 – The Cypriot football club Anorthosis Famagusta FC is founded.

February[edit]

February 5
- The Missouri State Capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is entirely destroyed by fire, after a bolt of lightning strikes the dome.
- The revolution in Haiti is suppressed after the leader, General Montreuil Guillaume, is captured by government troops and shot. General Millionard is executed two days later.^[5]
February 11 – The Lincoln Memorial Commission is established, to find an ideal site for the proposed Lincoln Memorial.^[6]
February 13 – HNK Hajduk Split, a Croatian football club, is founded.
February 17 – The first "quasi-official" airmail flight occurs, when Fred Wiseman carries three letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.
February 18 – The first official air mail flight, second overall, takes place from Allahabad, India to Naini, India, when Henri Pequet carries 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km.

March[edit]

March 8 – International Women's Day is celebrated, for the first time in history.^[7]
March 25 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146.
March 29 – The United States Army adopts a new service pistol, the M1911, designed by John Browning (it remains the U.S. service pistol for 74 years).

April[edit]

April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.
April 8 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity; he presents his findings on April 28.^[8]
April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.
April 18 – SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.
April 19 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez, but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.
April 22 – A passenger train from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, South Africa derails on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge, and plunges into the ravine 200 feet (61 metres) below, killing 31 and seriously injuring 23.^[9]^[10]
April 26 – HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb.
April 27 – Huanghuagang Uprising: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").

May[edit]

May 8 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on May 10.
May 13–15 – Mexican Revolution – Torreón massacre: Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Francisco I. Madero, in the Mexican city of Torreón.
May 17 – Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Díaz is convinced to resign, but does not do so yet.
May 21 – Mexican Revolution: In Ciudad Juárez, a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops.
May 24 – Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
May 25 – Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Díaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
May 30 – The very first Indianapolis 500 automobile race is held in the United States, won by Ray Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles per hour.
May 31 – The hull of the RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, on the very same day RMS Olympic starts her sea trials.

June[edit]

June 7 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.
June 14 – RMS Olympic departs Southampton, England, for her maiden voyage, with a first call at Cherbourg, France.
June 15 – RMS Olympic arrives in Queenstown, Ireland, to discharge and take up passengers.
June 21 – RMS Olympic arrives in New York, United States, at the end of her maiden voyage. She proceeds to her quarantine station off Staten Island, which she leaves at 7:45 a.m., and is saluted on her way up New York Harbor by all kinds of craft, as she steams to Pier 59 in the North River. With the assistance of twelve tugs, Olympic is safely moored at 10 a.m.
June 22 – George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, at Westminster Abbey in London. Moored at Pier 59 of New York Harbor, RMS Olympic is decorated for the occasion.
June 25 – The Polish Football Union (PFU), later absorbed into the Polish Football Association (Polish: Polski Związek Piłki Nożnej, PZPN), is founded.
June 28 – RMS Olympic departs New York, for her maiden eastbound voyage back to Southampton, England.
June 28 – The Nakhla meteorite falls in the Abu Hummus region of Egypt, providing evidence of water on Mars.
June – The Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance is held in Stockholm, Sweden.

July[edit]

July 24: Machu Picchu is rediscovered.

July 1 – The presence of the German warship Panther, in the Moroccan port of Agadir, triggers the Agadir Crisis.
July 4 – RMS Olympic crosses the Atlantic to discharge passengers, and mails at Plymouth, England.
July 5 – RMS Olympic arrives in Southampton, England, ending her maiden eastbound voyage from New York.
July 24 – Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru.

August[edit]

August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the theft is discovered the following day.
August 27 – CSKA Moscow, a well known for professional multi-sports club in Russia, is officially founded. (Formerly part of the Soviet Union)^[11]

September[edit]

September 20 – RMS Olympic collides with HMS Hawke, causing considerable damage to both ships.
September 25 – French battleship Liberté explodes at anchor in Toulon, France, killing around 300 on both the ship and the neighbouring area.
September 29 – Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

October[edit]

October 7 – Liberal leader Karl Staaff returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, after an Riksdag election victory based on the promises of defence cuts and social reforms.
October 10 – The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution, that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
October 16 – Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Díaz, occupies the port of Veracruz, as a sign of rebellion against Madero.
October 26 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the New York Giants, 13-2, to win the 1911 World Series in 6 games. The game is tied 1-1 after three innings, but with four runs in the fourth, and seven runs in the seventh, the A's demolish the Giants. The most unusual play of the game is an inside-the-park home run made by the A's Jack Barry, on a bunt.

November[edit]

December 14: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole.

Franz Marc, Blaues Pferd, 1911

November 1 – The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 3 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market, in competition with the Ford Model T.
November 4 – The Treaty of Berlin brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
November 5 – Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).
November 17 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated (the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an American historically black college or university) is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

December[edit]

December 9 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee kills 84 miners, despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
December 12 – The Delhi Durbar is held, to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India, and the transfer of the capital of British India from Calcutta to Delhi.
December 14 – Roald Amundsen's expedition reaches the South Pole.
December 18 – The first exhibition, by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters, opens in Munich.
December 24 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
December 29 – Sun Yat-sen is elected Provisional President of the Republic of China.

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The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published under American management in England, by Cambridge University Press.
New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from experiments involving Rutherford scattering, proposing the Rutherford model of the atom.