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| 1911 |
| | | Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Baseball pitcher Cy Young retires with a record achievement of 511 wins in 22 professional seasons | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Alfred Adler ends his association breaks with Sigmund Freud and forms his own school of psychology | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Copper mining begins in Katanga, soon to be followed by the extraction of even more profitable diamonds | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Bruno Walter conducts in Munich the first performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, a few months after the composer's death | |
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| 1911 |
| | | French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Conservative leader Robert Laird Borden becomes prime minister of Canada, ending fifteen years of Liberal rule under Wilfrid Laurier | |
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| 1911 |
| | | An uprising in the city of Wuchang is the first major event in the rapidly developing Chinese revolution | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Rudolph Wurlitzer's company in the USA produces the first of its famous movie theatre organs | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Walter Gropius builds the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine in Germany | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The US composer Irving Berlin writes 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Jelly Roll Morton plays in New York his Jelly Roll Blues | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Robert Lorimer completes a chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The painters Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and others form Der Blaue Reiter | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Roald Amundsen and his Norwegian team become the first people to stand at the South Pole | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Italian premier, Giovanni Giolitti, introduces reformist legislation including a national insurance act | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Bernard Leach discovers his skill and future craft at a raku party in Japan, where each guest is invited to throw a pot | |
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| 1912 |
| | | A republic of China is proclaimed, with Sun Yatsen as its provisional president | |
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| 1912 |
| | | New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Robert Falcon Scott and his companions reach the South Pole a month after Amundsen - and die on the return journey | |
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| 1912 |
| | | US aeroplane designer Glenn Curtis demonstrates the potential of the first successful flying boat, The Flying Fish | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The abdication of the child emperor Puyi brings to an end the Qing dynasty | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States of America | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Former president Theodore Roosevelt campaigns against President Taft for the Republican nomination | |
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| 1912 |
| | | UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year | |
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| 1912 |
| | | A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war | |
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