1913 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1913?
- January 5, 1913 – First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, 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 – A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos during the First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
- February 6, 1913 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- March 21, 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- March 28, 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- May 14, 1913 – New York Governor 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, provoking a riot.
- May 30, 1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- June 4, 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
- June 19, 1913 – Natives’ Land Act in South Africa implemented.
- July 31, 1913 – The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest.
- August 3, 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- August 16, 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
- October 9, 1913 – Steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic.
- October 31, 1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile road across United States.
- November 3, 1913 – The United States introduces an income tax.
- December 1, 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
- December 21, 1913 – Arthur Wynne’s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
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