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| 1910 |
| | | E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss biplane on the US cruiser Pennsylvania, pointing the way to the future development of the aircraft carrier | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays | |
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| c. 1911 |
| | | The lost Inca city of Machu Picchu is reached by US archaeologist Hiram Bingham | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Nearly 150 New York garment workers die in a factory fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Pennsylvania Station opens in New York, designed by McKim, Mead & White | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Al Jolson makes his first recording, That Haunting Melody, for the Victor label | |
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| 1911 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo | |
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| 1911 |
| | | G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The British chancellor, David Lloyd George, introduces the National Insurance Bill, providing workers with insurance in a few selected industries | |
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| 1911 |
| | | John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is broken up by US antitrust legislation | |
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| 1911 |
| | | In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories | |
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| 1911 |
| | | US inventor Isaac Newton Lewis patents a lighter version of the machine gun | |
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| 1911 |
| | | US driver Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 motor race | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Spanish composer Enrique Granados completes his Goyescas, seven pieces for piano | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Scott Joplin completes a ragtime opera, Treemonisha | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire. | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes) | |
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| 1911 |
| | | President Taft sends US marines to Honduras to protect American banana interests during a spell of political turmoil | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Nestor Film Company opens the first film studio in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Asquith's Parliament Bill proposes to end the constitutional crisis in the UK by restricting the power of the House of Lords | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Confronted with the threat of 300 newly created peerages, the House of Lords narrowly passes Asquith's Parliament Bill (by 17 votes) | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty' | |
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