Important Historical Events of the year 1913, Year 1913 in History
List of 1913 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1913
What happened in the year 1913?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 3, 1913 | An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States. |
| January 3, 1913 | First Balkan War: Greece completes its capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender.[19] |
| January 5, 1913 | First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. |
| January 18, 1913 | First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. |
| February 2, 1913 | Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City. |
| February 3, 1913 | The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax. |
| February 5, 1913 | Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. |
| February 5, 1913 | Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years. |
| February 9, 1913 | A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of the Americas, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. |
| February 13, 1913 | The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence. |
| February 17, 1913 | The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century. |
| February 19, 1913 | Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country. |
| February 20, 1913 | King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra. |
| February 21, 1913 | Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. |
| March 3, 1913 | Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C. |
| March 4, 1913 | First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later. |
| March 4, 1913 | The United States Department of Labor is formed. |
| March 12, 1913 | The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. |
| March 18, 1913 | King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. |
| March 20, 1913 | Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. |
| March 22, 1913 | Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.[14] |
| March 23, 1913 | A tornado outbreak kills more than 240 people in the central United States, while an ongoing flood in the Ohio River watershed was killing 650 people. |
| March 26, 1913 | First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. |
| March 31, 1913 | The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert. |
| April 4, 1913 | First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes. |
| April 8, 1913 | The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law. |
| April 24, 1913 | The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened. |
| May 3, 1913 | Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry. |
| May 14, 1913 | Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. |
| May 29, 1913 | Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot. |
| May 30, 1913 | The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation. |
| June 1, 1913 | The Greek–Serbian Treaty of Alliance is signed, paving the way for the Second Balkan War. |
| June 4, 1913 | Emily Davison, a suffragist, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later. |
| June 19, 1913 | Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented. |
| June 23, 1913 | Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran. |
| June 24, 1913 | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. |
| June 25, 1913 | American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
| July 3, 1913 | Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors. |
| July 4, 1913 | President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
| July 12, 1913 | Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends. |
| July 12, 1913 | The Second Revolution breaks out against the Beiyang government, as Li Liejun proclaims Jiangxi independent from the Republic of China. |
| July 13, 1913 | The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts. |
| August 10, 1913 | Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war. |
| August 13, 1913 | First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley. |
| August 16, 1913 | Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students. |
| August 16, 1913 | Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary. |
| August 28, 1913 | Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. |
| October 7, 1913 | Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line. |
| October 9, 1913 | The steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic. |
| October 10, 1913 | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal. |
| October 14, 1913 | Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. |
| October 31, 1913 | Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States. |
| October 31, 1913 | The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins. |
| November 5, 1913 | King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. |
| November 7, 1913 | The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date. |
| November 9, 1913 | The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people. |
| December 1, 1913 | The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation. |
| December 1, 1913 | Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. |
| December 11, 1913 | More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested. |
| December 14, 1913 | Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II. |
| December 21, 1913 | Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World. |
| December 23, 1913 | The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System. |
| December 24, 1913 | The Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan results in the deaths of 73 striking workers families at a Christmas party participants (including 59 children) when someone falsely yells "fire". |
| December 29, 1913 | Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man. |