What happened in 1911

36 events　World 2, North America 4, Europe 10, USSR / Russia 1, Asia 5, Latin America 9, Africa 1, Oceania 4

Highlights of 1911

Apr 13Latin AmericaMexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.
Jul 1AfricaThe presence of the German warship in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis.
Sep 18USSR / RussiaPyotr Stolypin, third Prime Minister of the Russian Empire is assassinated in Kiev by Leftist revolutionary Dmitry Bogrov and is succeeded by Count Vladimir Kokovtsov.
Sep 29EuropeItaly declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Oct 10AsiaThe Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
Nov 3North AmericaChevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.

Jun 13Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris with Vaslav Nijinsky in the lead.
Nov 5Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica (confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on February 25, 1912).

Jan 18Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, the first time an aircraft has landed on a ship.
Mar 25The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City kills 146 people.
Jun 23Frank C. Mars starts the Mars Candy Factory in Tacoma, Washington, origin of Mars, Incorporated, the global confectionery and pet food brand.
Nov 3Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.

Jan 3Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events.
Jan 4Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Robert Falcon Scott's British Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole arrives in the Antarctic and establishes a base camp at Cape Evans on Ross Island.
Jan 26Premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden.
Apr 3Jean Sibelius conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.
Sep 29Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Nov 1The world's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Nov 1Amundsen and Scott expeditions: Capt. Scott's Terra Nova Expedition sets out for the South Pole from his base camp.
Nov 4Morocco–Congo Treaty brings the Agadir Crisis to a close. This treaty leads Morocco to be split between France (as a protectorate) and Spain (as the colony of Spanish Sahara), with Germany forfeiting all claims to Morocco. In return, France gives Germany a portion of the French Congo (as Kamerun) and Germany cedes some of German Kamerun to France (as Chad).
Dec 18The first exhibition by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters opens in Munich.
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is published under American management in England, by Cambridge University Press.

Sep 18Pyotr Stolypin, third Prime Minister of the Russian Empire is assassinated in Kiev by Leftist revolutionary Dmitry Bogrov and is succeeded by Count Vladimir Kokovtsov.

Jan 31911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 8.0 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.
Feb 18A serious earthquake causes a landslide that creates Lake Sarez in modern-day Tajikistan.
Apr 27Huanghuagang Uprising: In China, rebels take five villages in an attempt to create a power base to fight Imperial rule; those who die are remembered as "The 72 Martyrs" (the event is also called the "Second Guangzhou Uprising" and the "Yellow Flower Mound Revolt").
Oct 10The Wuchang Uprising starts the Xinhai Revolution that leads to the founding of the Republic of China.
Dec 29Sun Yat-sen is elected Provisional President of the Republic of China.

Apr 13Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader "Red" López gets drunk.
Apr 19Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez, but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.
May 8Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juárez without Madero's permission; the government troops surrender on May 10.
May 13Mexican Revolution: Torreón massacre – Over 300 Chinese residents are massacred by the revolutionary forces of Francisco I. Madero, in the Mexican city of Torreón.
May 21Mexican Revolution: In Ciudad Juárez, a peace treaty is signed between Madero's rebels and government troops.
May 24Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 (officials claim only 40).
May 25Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Díaz signs his resignation and leaves for Veracruz; on May 31 he leaves for exile in France.
Jun 7Mexican Revolution: Francisco Madero arrives in Mexico City, just after the 1911 Michoacán earthquake.
Oct 16Mexican Revolution: Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Díaz, occupies the port of Veracruz, as a sign of rebellion against Madero.

Jul 1The presence of the German warship in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis.

Jan 1A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
Jul 28The Australasian Antarctic Expedition begins as the SY Aurora departs London.
Dec 2Australasian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Hobart.
New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford deduces the existence of a compact atomic nucleus from experiments involving Rutherford scattering, proposing the Rutherford model of the atom.