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Foundation of the Chanel firm.
Chanel S.A., or simply Chanel, is a French fashion house, founded in Paris by designer Coco Chanel, in 1910. The brand specializes in designing and manufacturing luxury goods, such as haute couture, ready-to-wear clothing, handbags, perfumes and cosmetics, among others. It was considered by Vogue magazine as "The most important fashion house in the world". -
On May 19, 1910, Halley's Comet visits Earth.
First observed in 240 BC by Chinese astronomers, since 1758 it has been called Halley in honor of the British astronomer Edmond Halley, who determined its orbit and accurately predicted its 'return' to Earth.
His visit in 1910 was especially close, as the Earth passed through the end of the comet's tail for six hours. It was also the first time that this object could be photographed. -
Japanese occupation of Korea
The Japanese occupation of Korea comprises part of the expansion of the Empire of Japan in which Korea was under Japanese rule as a colony for almost 35 years (from August 22, 1910 to August 15, 1945), for almost the entire the first half of the 20th century until the Japanese surrender in World War II, a few years before the Korean War. -
Revolution of October 5, 1910 in Portugal
The subjugation of the country to British colonial interests, the expenses of the royal family, the power of the Church, political and social instability, the system of alternation of the two parties in power (progressive and reactionary), the dictatorship of João Franco and the apparent inability to follow the evolution of the times and adapt to modernity contributed to an inexorable process of erosion of the Portuguese monarchy -
Start of the Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was an armed conflict that began in Mexico on November 20, 1910. The background of the conflict dates back to the situation in Mexico under the dictatorship known as the Porfiriato. Porfirio Díaz exercised power in the country in a dictatorial manner from 1876 to 1911. During these 35 years, Mexico experienced notable economic growth and political stability, but these achievements were achieved at high social costs. -
First abstract watercolor
Original title: Erstes abstraktes Aquarell
Author: Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky was a great color theorist and father of abstract art. Perhaps a visionary of what the world had in store for us since we are bound to be enveloped by a materialism that makes the soul and essence of people and things invaluable. -
Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), is the name used by a group of painters that formed in Munich in 1911, with the common desire to renew the artistic language. The founders of this movement, which constitutes an important stage in the evolution of expressionism, were Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc: in 1912, they published an almanac entitled Der Blaue Reiter, which contained several essays on contemporary painting and music. -
Sinking of the RMS Titanic
Was a maritime catastrophe that occurred on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic —of the White Star Line shipping company—, which was making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg in the ocean Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. The collision occurred on the starboard side at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, causing the ship to sink in less than three hours, at 02:20 a.m. on April 15. -
1912 United States presidential election
The 1912 United States presidential election was a rare three-way election. The president, William Howard Taft, was reelected as a candidate for the Republican Party with the support of his conservative wing. Former President Theodore Roosevelt, who created the Progressive Party and Democrat Woodrow Wilson, was nominated thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate, who still had a large and loyal following in 1912. -
Bohr's atomic model
Bohr's Atomic Model is a classical model of the atom, but it was the first atomic model in which a quantization was introduced from certain postulates.
It was proposed in 1913 by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, to explain how electrons can have stable orbits around the nucleus and why atoms have characteristic emission spectra. -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg in Sarajevo.
On June 28, 1914, at approximately 11 a.m., Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This was one of the triggers for the First World War. -
Start of the First World War.
World War I, formerly called the Great War,b was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
It received the qualification of "global" because all the great industrial and military powers of the time were involved, divided into two alliances -
Albert Einstein: Theory of General Relativity.
He proposed that the link was geometry: what happens, says Einstein, is that, in the presence of a mass, space-time is "deformed", so that any other mass notices that deformed space, and is forced to follow different paths than when space was undeformed (without any mass). -
Battle of Verdun.
The Battle of Verdun, fought from February 21 to December 18, 1916, was the largest and longest battle of World War I on the Western Front between the German and French armies. The battle took place in the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeastern France. -
Russian Revolution
The term Russian Revolution groups together all the events that led to the overthrow of the imperial tsarist regime during the February Revolution, the subsequent establishment of a Provisional Government, between February and October 1917, which proclaimed the Russian Republic, and the dissolution of the Russian Republic. after the October Revolution that proclaimed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. -
Spanish flu pandemic.
Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish Flu killed more than 40 million people worldwide. The exact number of the pandemic that is considered the most devastating in history is unknown. A century later, the origin of this epidemic that did not understand borders or social classes is still unknown. -
Assassination of Emiliano Zapata.
Emiliano Zapata arrived riding a magnificent horse that Guajardo gave him, accompanied by Gil Muñoz, Zeferino Ortega, Jesús Capistrán and his escort. He was received by false troop officers, who had instructions to give the signal to open fire against him and thus, at the first blast of the bugle, they shot down the revolutionary and his entourage. -
Foundation of the Bauhaus, school of crafts, design, art and architecture
The Bauhaus school was founded by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919. Despite the fact that its founder was an architect and the great influence he had on architecture, he did not have a department dedicated to it in his early years. It was defined as “the building of the future”. The reason, with her it was a question of uniting all the arts and has influenced all the European avant-gardes.