1913 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1913?
- January 17, 1913 – Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.
- 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.
- February 21, 1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
- March 4, 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
- 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 21, 1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- April 4, 1913 – The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 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 30, 1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- June 25, 1913 – American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
- July 12, 1913 – Second Balkan War: Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends.
- August 16, 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
- October 14, 1913 – Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
- October 31, 1913 – The Indianapolis Street Car 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 6, 1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
- December 15, 1913 – Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
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