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| 1913 |
| | | An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I | |
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| 1915 |
| | | An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs | |
|  | Poster advertising Metro-land
London's Transport Museum
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| 1916 |
| | | William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US | |
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| 1919 |
| | | John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown fly from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland | |
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| 1919 |
| | | Canadian National Railways is formed from two of the country's largest rail systems | |
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| 1921 |
| | | The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber | |
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| 1922 |
| | | British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin' | |
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