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.