1910s

Years

• 1910
• 1911
• 1912
• 1913
• 1914
• 1915
• 1916
• 1917
• 1918
• 1919

Notable Events

• June 28, 1911 – The Nakhla meteorite falls in Egypt, providing evidence of water on Mars.
• June 28, 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, triggering the start of World War I.

Exact Dates Unknown

• 1910 – Physicist Theodor Wulf climbs the Eiffel Tower with an electrometer and discovers the first evidence of cosmic rays.
• 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 1918 – The "1918 Influenza Pandemic", later known incorrectly as the "Spanish flu", breaks out.
  It kills an estimated 17 to 50 million people, second deadliest only to the Black Death bubonic plague of 1346–1353.

Timeline
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