1913 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1913?
- January 1, 1913 – The British Board of Censors is established.
- January 17, 1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- February 6, 1913 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 20, 1913 – King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
- March 12, 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
- March 18, 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
- March 28, 1913 – Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- April 24, 1913 – The Woolworth Building 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 29, 1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, provoking a riot.
- 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 25, 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- August 3, 1913 – A major labour dispute, known as the Wheatland Hop Riot, starts in Wheatland, California.
- 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 Tōhoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
- December 1, 1913 – The Buenos Aires Subway, the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
- December 14, 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Sclass Kongō, 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.
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