The Decades: 1910
Current Events
China abolishes slavery (1910)
Florence Nightingale died (1910)
Father's Dave first celebrated (1910)
Philly beats Chicago in world series (1910)
Hailey's Comet (1910)
The Titanic Sinks (1912)
Panama Canal completed (1913)
WW 1 begins (1914)
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (1915)
Margaret Sanger jailed for writing Family Limitation, first book on
birth control (1915)
First Rose Bowl game (1916)
Four women arrested picketing White House for vote, 6 months in jail
(1917)
WW 1 ends (1918)
Major world wide Spanish Flu pandemic, 22 million die (1918)
Women over 30 get vote in England (1918)
General Strike in Winnipeg (1919)
Russian Revolution (1919)
Literature
Howard's End, E.M. Forester (1910)
The History of Mr. Polly, H.G. Wells (1910)
Mark Twain died (1910)
The White Peacock, D.H. Lawrence (1911)
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence (1913)
Pygmalion, Shaw (1913)
John Barlycorn, Jack London (1913)
Tarzan of the Apes, E.R. Burroughts (1914)
The Dubliners, James Joyce (1914)
Chance, Joseph Conrad (1914)
North of Boston, Robert Frost (1914)
Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham (1915)
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1915)
The Thirty Nine Steps, John Buchan (1915)
The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence (1915)
Greenmantle, John Buchan (1916)
The Innocents, Sinclair Lewis (1917)
Exiles, James Joyce (1918)
Far Away and Long Ago, W.H. Hudson (1918)
The Defeat of Youth, Aldous Huxley (1918)
Joan and Peter, H.G. Wells (1918)
The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad (1919)