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| 1910 May 6 |
| | | George V succeeds his father, Edward VII, on the British throne | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Gustav Mahler conducts in Munich the first performance of his Eighth Symphony, subsequently known as the 'Symphony of a Thousand' | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904 | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Union of South Africa becomes an independent dominion within the British empire | |
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| 1910 |
| | | J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Schéhérazade, with choreography by Fokine, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes) | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The US Congress passes the Mann White Slave Traffic Act, an attempt to control prostitution | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government | |
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| 1910 |
| | | John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories | |
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| 1910 |
| | | A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911 | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Gimbel family open their flagship department store in Manhattan | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Sun Yatsen and others merge several smaller Chinese political groups into the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Japan annexes Korea as a colony, to be controlled by a Japanese governor-general | |
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| 1910 |
| | | A republican revolution in Portugal deposes Manuel II, bringing to an end the Braganza dynasty and the Portuguese monarchy | |
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| 1910 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Elizabeth Arden opens her first beauty salon on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Ten men and two women establish the first kibbutz, at Degania in Palestine | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Louis Botha is prime minister of the newly formed Union of South Africa, with Jan Smuts as his minister of interior and defence | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Steiner House, designed by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos, is completed in Vienna | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, wandering from home in midwinter, dies of pneumonia in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Ferdinand Zeppelin's dirigible Deutschland provides the first commercial air service for passengers | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories | |
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