1910

1845–1958	Germany [earth sciences]	German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt lays the basis of modern geography with the publication of Kosmos/Cosmos, in which he arranges geographic knowledge in a systematic fashion.
1910	Germany [clothing and fashion]	The synthetic fabric rayon is used in Germany for stockings, the first garment to be manufactured from it.
1910	United Kingdom [food and drink]	Italian immigrant Lawrence Asky introduces the ice-cream cone into Britain.
1910	[orchestral music]	The French composer Maurice Ravel completes his orchestral work Pavane pour une infante défunte/Pavan for a Dead Infanta, based on a piano work of 1899, and his work for two pianos Ma Mère l'oye/Mother Goose, which he orchestrates in 1911 and turns into a ballet in 1912.
1910	[orchestral music]	The Austrian composer Gustav Mahler completes his Symphony No. 9.
1910	[orchestral music]	The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams completes his orchestral work Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.
1910	[orchestral music]	The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin completes his symphonic poem Prometheus – The Poem of Fire.
1910	[painting]	The Italian artist Umberto Boccioni paints Riot in the Galleria and The City Rises.
1910	[painting]	The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso paints Portrait of Ambroise Vollard and Portrait of D H Kahnweiler.
1910	[painting]	The French artist Henri Matisse paints The Dance.
1910	United Kingdom [musical performers]	The British singer and actor Gracie Fields makes her first professional appearance at the New Hippodrome Theatre, Rochdale, in the north-west of England.
1910	France [physics]	The French industrial chemist Georges Claude develops neon lighting when he discovers that the gas emits light when an electric current is passed through it. As it is initially only possible to produce red lighting, its potential is mainly restricted to advertising.
1910	USA [consumer products]	The US company Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Co. launches the first electric food mixer.
1910	USA [biology]	US geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan discovers that certain inherited characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are sex linked. He later argues that because all sex-related characteristics are inherited together they are linearly arranged on the X-chromosome.
1910	France [cinema and film]	The Gaumont-Palace opens in Paris, France, the first of the great ‘picture palaces’ and one of the first cinemas with facilities to give continuous showing of multi-reel films.
1910	USA [shops and shopping]	Elizabeth Arden opens her first beauty shop, in New York City. She will later expand to create a chain of shops and a very successful range of cosmetics.
1910	[solo and chamber music]	The Austrian composer Alban Berg completes his String Quartet (Opus 3).
1910	USA [statistics and demography]	Less than half the population over 25 in the USA has a high school education and just 4% are college graduates.
1910	United Kingdom [unions and associations]	Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his sister Agnes found the Girl Guides, a sister movement to the Scouts, in Britain.
28 February 1910	South Africa [slavery]	The last Chinese labourers leave the Rand diamond mines in South Africa, the slave-like conditions of their employment having created a furore throughout the British Empire.
21 April 1910	[births and deaths]	Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), US author who created the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, dies in Redding, Connecticut (74).
6 May 1910	United Kingdom [political events]	Following the death of King Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland, he is succeeded by George V.
19 May 1910	USA [astronomy]	Halley's Comet – which comes near the Earth roughly every 75 years – returns, with the Earth passing through the comet's tail. In the USA, it is regarded by some as announcing the end of the world.
1 July 1910	South Africa [legislation]	By an act of the British Parliament the Union of South Africa becomes a dominion, an independent country remaining within the British Empire.
13 August 1910	[births and deaths]	Florence Nightingale, ‘Lady of the Lamp’, English nurse who was in charge of nursing the British troops during the Crimean War and who established nursing as a profession for women, dies in London, England (90).
22 August 1910	Japan, Korea [colonies and mandate]	Japan formally annexes Korea, having already secured political and military control of the Chinese fiefdom.
27 August 1910	[births and deaths]	Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Albanian-born Indian ascetic who founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, devoted to helping the poor, born in Yugoslavia of Albanian parents (–1997).
28 August 1910	Montenegro [political events]	Montenegro is proclaimed a kingdom independent of the Ottoman Empire under Nicholas I.
15 September 1910	South Africa [elections]	The South African Party wins the first South African elections and Louis Botha becomes prime minister.
5 October 1910	Portugal [law and government]	Portugal is proclaimed a republic under Theophila Braga, following the deposition of King Manuel II.
20 November 1910	[births and deaths]	Lev Nikolayevich (‘Leo’) Tolstoy, Russian author best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, dies in Astapovo, Russia (82).

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