1910s facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 1910s was the decade that started on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919.

Events

Balkan Wars
1911-12: The Republic of China overthrew the Qing Dynsty
1912: The ship RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and sinks on its first voyage.
1912: Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden
1914–1918: World War I 15,000,000 people die
1917: The October revolution in Russia. Communists get rid of the king (Tsar)
1918–1919: Influenza (the spanish flu) spreads through Europe killing 25,000,000 to 50,000,000 people.

Sinking of the Titanic.
British World War I Mark V tank
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, The Art Institute of Chicago. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque co-invent Cubism, revolutionizing the art of painting and advancing the concepts of Modern art and Modernism.
Henri Matisse, L'Atelier Rouge, 1911, oil on canvas, 162 × 130 cm., The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Armory Show poster, 1913, Internationally groundbreaking exhibition of Modern art

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments