1913

And we're into the twentieth century! Only 100 years of history remaining to this series! So much has happened since the first post in this series, 882.

 I think this is the first time the 'births' list has threatened to outnumber the entries for events in the year on Wikipedia! So what did happen?
  • Mexican Revolution
  • Building of Canberra began
  • First Balkan War... and the Second Balkan War
  • Assassination of King George I of Greece
  • First full-length Indian feature film released
  • Rockefeller Foundation charter approved, and the foundation began with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller - that's a LOT of money!!!!
  • The Little Mermaid statue was finished in Kopenhagen, Denmark
  • Stainless steel invented
  • King Otto of Bavaria was deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig
  • Ford Motor Company introduced the first moving assembly line
  • First packaged cigarette
  • Georges Sagnac showed that light propagates at a speed independent of the speed of its source 
  • Women's suffrage movement in several places, but women's suffrage was enacted in Norway (not yet in the USA or the UK)
 There were five Nobel Prizes:
  • Physics - Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
  • Chemistry - Alfred Werner
  • Medicine - Charles Richet
  • Literature - Rabindranath Tagore
  • Peace - Henri La Fontaine
And amongst the deaths, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Menelik II. Also, Emily Davison, a British suffragette, was trampled by a horse (owned by King George V) in the Epsom Derby and she died four days later from her injuries.

All in all, it seems to have been a very messy year.

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