1911

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1911 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1911
MCMXI
Ab urbe condita2664
Armenian calendar1360
ԹՎ ՌՅԿ
Assyrian calendar6661
Bahá'í calendar67–68
Balinese saka calendar1832–1833
Bengali calendar1318
Berber calendar2861
British Regnal year1 Geo. 5  2 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2455
Burmese calendar1273
Byzantine calendar7419–7420
Chinese calendar庚戌(Metal Dog)
4607 or 4547
     to 
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4608 or 4548
Coptic calendar1627–1628
Discordian calendar3077
Ethiopian calendar1903–1904
Hebrew calendar5671–5672
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1967–1968
 - Shaka Samvat1832–1833
 - Kali Yuga5011–5012
Holocene calendar11911
Igbo calendar911–912
Iranian calendar1289–1290
Islamic calendar1329–1330
Japanese calendarMeiji 44
(明治44年)
Javanese calendar1840–1841
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4244
Minguo calendar1 before ROC
民前1年
Nanakshahi calendar443
Thai solar calendar2453–2454
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

A highlight in European history was the race for the South Pole.

Sketch by Marguerite Martyn of 1911 women's fashion styles

Events

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July 24: Machu Picchu rediscovered

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Franz Marc, Blaues Pferd I, 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 is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

December

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Births

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Hedi Amara Nouira

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Date unknown

Nobel Prizes

References

  1. "Grand Central Palace Automobile Show has Auspicious Opening". The New York Times. January 1, 1911. p. 34.
  2. "A Successful Negro Aviator: Charles Ward Chappelle Invents an Aeroplane Which Attracts Attention". Savannah Tribune. Savannah, Georgia. February 11, 1911. p. 1.
  3. "Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake". Pittsburgh Press. January 5, 1911. p. 1.
  4. Kappa Alpha Psi Centennial Archived October 31, 2017, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. "Record of Current Events". The American Monthly Review of Reviews: 287–290. March 1911.
  6. Ashabranner, Brent; Jennifer (2001). No Better Hope: What the Lincoln Memorial Means to America. Twenty-First Century Books. p. 29.
  7. Kaplan, Temma (Spring 1985). "On the Socialist Origins of International Women's Day". Feminist Studies. 11 (1).
  8. van Delft, D.; Kes, P. (September 2010). "The discovery of superconductivity". Physics Today. 63 (9): 38–43. doi:10.1063/1.3490499.
  9. Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
  10. The South African Railways – Historical Survey. Editor George Hart, Publisher Bill Hart, Sponsored by Dorbyl Ltd., Published c. 1978, p. 24.
  11. "History in the Making". Mars Inc. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
  12. "The Llanelli railway riots of 1911". BBC Wales. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
  13. Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-753-51571-6.

Further reading

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