1911 year

January

• January 10 - Supporters of the ousted Honduran President Manuel Bonilla , sailing from New Orleans, with the support of the US Navy cruiser Tacoma, captured the port of Trujillo on the Honduran coast ^[1] .
• The Caspian oil and gas province has been opened.
• January - the strongest earthquake of magnitude 10 in the city of Verny (now - Alma - Ata). Mention of the disaster can be found in the newspaper "Semirechenskiye Vedomosti", in the novel by Yuri Dombrovsky "Guardian of Antiquities."

February

• February 18 - the largest collapse of 2.2 billion m³ occurred on the Murghab River , resulting in the formation of a natural dam and Lake Sarez .
• February 27 - the French government led by Aristide Briand resigned ^[2] .

March

• March 2 - Vice-President of the Senate of France Ernest Monis became the Prime Minister of France ^[3] .
• March 25 - the murder of Andrei Yushchinsky , a student in the preparatory class of the Kiev-Sofia Theological College . Authorities (including those represented by the Minister of Justice) exerted pressure on the investigation and promoted the adoption of a religious-ritual version of the murder. The Jew was charged with the Jew Mendel Beilis , but the jury acquitted him. The investigation into the murder and the subsequent trial, called the “ Beilis case, ” were widely covered in the Russian and international press and had a huge public outcry ^[4] .
• March 28 - Honduran President Manuel Davila resigned in accordance with the agreements reached by the warring parties on board the US Navy cruiser Tacoma. Francisco Bertrand Barayona became interim president. In the fall, he held elections in which US-backed former president Manuel Bonilla won. ^[5]

April

• April 27 - The Huanghuang Rebellion in China . Huang Xing and his associates captured the governor's residence in Guangzhou, but were not supported by the local garrison. Killed 72 rebels, Huang Sin fled ^[6] .

May

• May 3 - German state secretary Alfred von Kiderlen-Wechter outlined in the memorandum a plan for military intervention in Morocco in order to demand territorial concessions from the colonies from France ^[7] . The plan is approved by the Kaiser ^[8] .
• May 10 - Nicaraguan President Juan José Estrada ordered the arrest of opposition-minded General Louis Mena , supported by the United States . The army refused to comply, Estrada resigned and emigrated to the United States. The President of Nicaragua was Vice President Adolfo Diaz ^[9] .
• May 14 - in Bekeshchab, the Zilinsky brothers killed the leader of the Peasant Party of Hungary Andras Achim ^[10] .
• May 20 - The Chinese government signed an agreement with a consortium of British, French, German and American banks, transferring the entire construction of railways in China to the hands of foreigners. The country began the movement of "railway protection" ^[11] .
• May 31 - the British liner Titanic , the largest passenger ship in the world , was launched.

June

• June 23
  • French Prime Minister Ernest Monis resigned ^[3] .
  • The meeting of Albanian representatives in Gercha adopted the Red Book , the program for the autonomy of Albania ^[12] .
• June 27 - a government was formed in France headed by Joseph Cayo ^[13] .

July

• July 1 - The German gunboat Panther entered the Moroccan port of Agadir in the morning (the so- called Panther jump ). At noon, the German ambassador Shen told the French government that the Panther would guarantee German interests in Morocco until peace reigned there. The beginning of the Agadir crisis ^[14] .
• July 3 - V.K. Arsenyev 's secret expedition of 1911 to fight against hunkhuzs and poachers in the Ussuri Territory started.
• July 4 - Great Britain announced to Germany that it did not intend to recognize the new redistribution of Morocco ^[14] .
• July 9 - French Ambassador to Berlin Jules Cambon invited Germany to resolve the Agadir crisis by transferring part of the territory of French Congo to Germany. There was no direct answer ^[14] .
• July 15 - State Secretary Alfred von Kiederlen-Wechter demanded that France transfer all of French Congo to Germany (for recognition of the French protectorate over Morocco) ^[15] .
• July 21 - British Finance Minister David Lloyd George expressed support for France in the Agadir crisis, saying that England would not be able to resolve this issue without her participation and that “if the UK is treated in matters affecting its vital interests, it’s as if it will no longer it doesn’t matter in the family of nations, then ... a world bought at such a price would be a humiliation unbearable for such a great country like ours. ” After that, Germany renounced its own territorial claims in Morocco and reduced the amount of territorial compensation required from France for recognizing the French protectorate over it ^[15] .
• July 31 - Rallies in support of the autonomy of Albania began in Vlore and Berat ^[12] .

August

• August 18 - negotiations between Germany and France to resolve the Agadir crisis are interrupted, Europe is on the brink of war ^[15] .
• August 19 - A Russian-German agreement on Persia and the Baghdad Road was signed in St. Petersburg . Russia agreed to the construction by Germany of the Baghdad railway and the construction of a line from Khanekin to Tehran with the right of Germany to seek a concession for it in the event of Russia's refusal. Germany recognized the “special interests” of Russia in Persia ^[16] .
• August 21 - Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci stole from the Louvre ^[17] .
• August 27 - one of the three teams in the football section of the Society of Skiing Lovers (OLLS) played their first official match. It is considered the foundation day of the professional football club CSKA .

September

• September 1 - The United States provided a loan to Nicaragua . By agreement, American lenders received 51% of the shares of the National Bank of Nicaragua, Nicaraguan customs until 1928 were transferred under American control as a guarantee of solvency ^[18] .
• September 4 - negotiations between France and Germany to resolve the Agadir crisis resumed ^[19] .
• September 14 - attempt on the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ^[20] .
• September 25th - one of the largest shipwrecks of the 20th century : in the crack chamber of the French squadron battleship Liberté ( FR Liberté ), which stood on the roadstead in Toulon, there was an explosion that killed 210 people; 184 were injured ^[21] .
• September 29 - Italy launched military operations against the Ottoman Empire . The Italo-Turkish War began ^[22] .

October

• October 5 - Italian naval landing took Tripoli and Homs in Turkish Tripolitania ^[22] .
• October 10 - the uprising in Wuchang , the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution , which led to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the proclamation of a republic in China ^[11] .
• October 11 - rebel soldiers and officers force General Li Yuanhong to head the military revolutionary government of Hubei Province and speak out against the imperial authorities of China ^[23] .
• October 14 - Italian troops occupied Tobruk in Turkish Cyrenaica ^[22] .
• October 20 - the battleship Gangut was launched in the Russian Empire ^[24] .
• October 21 - Italian troops occupied Benghazi ^[22] .
• October 27 - the regent of China, Grand Duke Chun, appointed the disgraced general Yuan Shikai as commander in chief of all the armed forces of China ^[25] .

November

• November 1 - Army Commander-in-Chief General Yuan Shikai was appointed by the Qing Dynasty as Prime Minister of China ^[25] .
• November 4 - French Ambassador Jules Cambon and German State Secretary Alfred von Kiederlen-Wechter signed a Franco-German agreement in Berlin . France was inferior to Germany 250 thousand km² in French Congo , having received 15 thousand km² in German Cameroon and Germany recognized its protectorate over Morocco ^[19] .
• November 14 - the secret expedition of 1911 by V.K. Arsenyev to combat the Khunkhuzes and poachers in the Ussuri region ended.
• November 25 - prominent Marxist theorist Paul Lafargue and his wife, Karl Marx's daughter Laura Lafargue committed suicide in Paris ^[26] .
• November 28 - the German cruiser Berlin, who replaced the Panther gunboat, was ordered to leave Agadir and return to Germany. The end of the Agadir crisis ^[19] .

December

• December 2 - in China, the rebel forces captured Nanjing . This caused the separation of more than ten provinces from Qing China ^[27] .
• December 11 - Maharaja of Nepal Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah Deva passed away. The five-year-old Tribhubana Bir Bikram Shah Deva ascended the throne ^[28] .
• December 14 - Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen with four satellites for the first time in history reached the South Pole .
• December 25 - Sun Yat-sen returned from exile to Shanghai , where he was enthusiastically received by his supporters ^[29] .

No exact dates

• The Casso case is the scandalous dismissal of more than one hundred employees of the Imperial Moscow University , the conflict was resolved only in 1917 .
• Frozen Niagara Falls ^[30] .

See also: Category: Born in 1911

• January 6 - Nikolai Afanasevich Kryuchkov , Soviet actor (d. 1994 ).
• January 22 - Bruno Kreisky , Federal Chancellor of Austria in 1970 - 1983 (d. 1990 ).
• January 23 - Arseny Nikiforovich Semenov , Soviet painter (d. 1992 ).
• January 24 - Katherine Moore , American fantasy writer in the fantasy genre , wife and co-author of Henry Kuttner (d. 1987 ).
• January 31 - Vanga , a Bulgarian woman who is credited with the gift of foresight (d. 1996 ).

• February 6 - Ronald Reagan , President of the United States (1981-1989), actor (d. 2004 ).
• 24 February
  • Wlodzimierz Recek , Polish sports and political figure, leader of the international Olympic movement, doctor of sciences (d. 2004 ) ^[31] .
  • Robert William ( Italian: Robert Williame ), a French pilot ace in World War II , was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor (d. 1940 ).
• March 8 - Alan Hovaness , American composer (d. 2000 ).
• March 11 - Arkady Beinusovich Migdal , Soviet theoretical physicist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (d. 1991 ).
• April 8 - Frantisek Perzhina , Czechoslovak pilot-ace of World War II (d. 2006 ).
• April 12 - Vytautas Sirios-Gira , Lithuanian writer (d. 1997 ).
• April 21 - Leonard Warren , American opera singer-baritone (d. 1960 ).
• April 28 - Lee Falk , American writer, theater director and producer, creator of the comic books about the Phantom and Mandrake the Wizard (d. 1999 ).
• May 24 - Wu Ne Win , general, military and political leader of Burma , president in 1974 - 1981 (d. 2002 ).
• May 27 - Vincent Price , an American film actor, known for the classic film adaptations of the works of E.A. Poe (d. 1993 ).
• June 17 - Victor Platonovich Nekrasov , Russian Soviet writer (d. 1987 ).
• June 24 - Juan Manuel Fangio - Argentine race car driver (d. 1995 ).
• June 30 - Cheslav Milosz , Polish poet , winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2004 ).
• July 1 - Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov , Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union , Hero of the Soviet Union , Minister of Defense of the USSR (1984-1987) (d. 2012 ).
• July 5 - Georges Pompidou , President of France (1969-1974) (d. 1974 ).
• July 14 - Vladimir Ivanovich Ovchinnikov , Soviet painter (d. 1978 ).
• August 17 - Mikhail Botvinnik , Soviet chess player, 6th world chess champion (d. 1995 ).
• September 7 - Todor Zhivkov , the long-standing communist leader of Bulgaria (d. 1998 ).
• September 19 - William Golding , English writer, Nobel laureate in literature (d. 1993 ).
• October 8 - Mark Bernes , Soviet singer and actor (d. 1969 ).
• October 15 - James Schmitz , American science fiction writer (d. 1981 ).
• October 20 - Mikhail Georgievich Kozell , Soviet painter and teacher (d. 1993 ).
• October 24 - Arkady Isaakovich Raikin , Soviet pop and theater actor (d. 1987 ).
• 1 ноября — Анри Труайя , французский писатель русского—армянского происхождения, настоящее имя Лев Асланович Тарасов (ум. 2007 ).
• 22 ноября — Лаци Олах , популярный советский барабанщик-джазмен (ум. 1989 ).
• 11 декабря — Цянь Сюэсэнь , китайский учёный, основоположник космической программы Китая (ум. 2009 ).
• 18 декабря — Жюль Дассен , французский кинорежиссёр (ум. 2008 ).
• 25 декабря — Иван Игнатьевич Якубовский , советский военачальник, Маршал Советского Союза (1967), дважды Герой Советского Союза (ум. 1976 ).

См. также: Категория:Умершие в 1911 году

• 20 февраля — Юзеф Монтвилл , польский банкир и меценат (род. 1850 ).
• 10 апреля — Микалоюс Константинас Чюрлёнис , литовский художник и композитор (род. 1875 ).
• 17 апреля — Архимандрит Мина (Михаил Ефимович Шустов) , настоятель Никольского единоверческого монастыря в Москве , известный миссионер .
• 18 мая — Густав Малер , австрийский композитор и дирижёр (род. 1860 ).
• 30 мая — Константин Михайлович Фофанов , русский поэт (род. 1862 ).
• 31 июля — Андреа Глория , итальянский историк , профессор Падуанского университета (род. 1821 ).
• 1 августа — Конрад Дуден , немецкий филолог, создатель орфографического словаря немецкого языка (род. 1829 ).
• 18 сентября — Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин , российский государственный деятель, премьер-министр России с 1906 года (род. 1862 ).
• 21 сентября — Ахмед Ораби-паша , египетский военный и политический деятель, руководитель борьбы с Великобританией в период Англо-египетской войны 1882 года (род. 1842 ).
• 1 октября — Вильгельм Дильтей , немецкий историк культуры и философ (род. 1833 ).
• 4 октября — Джозеф Белл , хирург и профессор Эдинбургского университета (род. 1837 ).
• 25 ноября
  • Поль Лафарг , французский экономист и политический деятель, один из крупных марксистских теоретиков (род. 1842 ).
  • Лаура Лафарг , активная деятельница французского социалистического движения. Дочь Карла Маркса и Женни фон Вестфален , жена Поля Лафарга (род. 1845 ).
• 5 декабря — Валентин Александрович Серов , русский художник (род. 1865 ).
• 13 декабря — Николай Николаевич Бекетов , один из основоположников физической химии и химической динамики , заложил основы принципа алюминотермии (род. 1827 ).
• 23 декабря — Николай Николаевич Златовратский , русский писатель (род. 1845 ).

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