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1910 Execution of twelve for anarchism ends Japanese labor agitation (1910) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Minor socialist and labor agitations were brought to a violent end in 1910 by the execution of twelve persons for anarchistic agitations; the labor movement did not revive until 1919-1922. ●●

1910 Founding of The Round Table review ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts a Round Table Group (later called the Cliveden Set) wielded great influence through bodies including The Round Table, an anonymous quarterly founded in 1910 with money from Sir Abe Bailey and the Rhodes Trust and edited by Lothian. ●●

1910 Mexican Revolution challenges the old oligarchy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley dates the first serious challenge to Latin America's oligarchic alliance to Mexico in 1910. It arose from the commercialization and later incipient industrialization of Latin American society, which weakened the union of the older ruling groups. ●●

1910 Quigley traces Kindergarten members into Round Table and The Times ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley tallies where the twenty-three South African 'Kindergarten' men later worked. Nine founded and wrote The Round Table after 1910 and seven controlled The Times after 1912, evidence he offers for the network. ●●

1910 Curtis's draft becomes the Union of South Africa constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Curtis was chief author of the constitution draft the Transvaal delegation brought to the National Convention. With modifications it became the Constitution of the Union of South Africa in 1910. ●●

1910 Union of South Africa achieved ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Union of South Africa was achieved in 1910. Quigley says this did not end the Kindergarten, which turned to repeat the same feat on the imperial scale. ●●

1910 First issue of The Round Table (15 Nov 1910) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first issue of The Round Table appeared dated 15 November 1910, carrying no names of officers or contributors. Quigley says this anonymity was maintained deliberately for decades. ●●

1910 Gatto dates the shift of colleges toward serving business ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto argues that after 1910 serving business and the political state became the chief purpose of American colleges and universities, displacing the older aim of developing mind and character. ●●

1910 Brandeis coins the term 'scientific management' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that the term 'scientific management' was created by lawyer Louis Brandeis in 1910 for the Interstate Commerce Commission rate hearings, understanding how a phrase could shape public imagination. ●●

1910 Carrington reports involuntary sterilizations, 1910 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Charles V. Carrington, who in a July 1910 criminology journal reported two cases of successful involuntary sterilization in America. ●●

1910 Dewey publishes How We Think, 1910 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that by 1910 Dewey offered his own five-step method in How We Think, which Gatto reads as arguing that we do not really think at all. ●●

1910 Secret Jekyll Island meeting on monetary reform ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book recounts a secret 1910 gathering at Jekyll Island where bankers drafted what became the Federal Reserve System. It quotes participant Frank Vanderlip admitting he acted as furtively as a conspirator. ●●

1910 Norman Angell's 'The Great Illusion' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Norman Angell argued that the financial and commercial ties between nations had made war economically futile, so no rational country would start one. The book became a cult, selling over a million copies before 1914. ●●

1910 The secret Jekyll Island meeting ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1910 Henry Davison gathered Senator Aldrich, Paul Warburg, Benjamin Strong and others in secret on Jekyll Island, Georgia, to design an American central bank. The plan they drafted became the Aldrich Plan, forerunner of the Federal Reserve. ●●

1910 Nelson Aldrich struck by a New York trolley ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But on October 21, 1910, while in New York City, Aldrich was struck by a southbound Madison Avenue trolley car. He was hurled into the street and knocked unconscious.12 Confined... ●●

1910 US-backed overthrow of Nicaragua's President Zelaya ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Estrada became president of Nicaragua after the U.S. orchestrated the overthrow of nationalist President Zelaya. When sworn in on August 21, 1910, it marked the first explicitly directed American regime change operation. ●●

1910 Rockefeller hookworm commission opens in Washington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Instead of being based in New York, like other Rockefeller programs, it opened in 1910 in Washington, D.C., diplomatically south of the Mason-Dixon line. The executive secretary was a Tennessee native, Dr. ●●

1910 Jim Loeb founds the Loeb Classical Library ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jim Loeb endowed the Loeb Classical Library, producing pocket editions of Greek and Latin literature with English translations. His philanthropy achieved noteworthy cultural results. ●●

1910 Wireless telegraph enables Dr. Crippen's arrest at sea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wireless telegraph leads to arrest of Dr. Hawley Crippen at sea after captain of Montrose reports suspicious passengers to Scotland Yard ●●

1910 Russell and Whitehead publish Principia Mathematica ai_extracted 1 cit. no story was the goal of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, the giants of English rationalism, who published their great work in three volumes from 1910 to 1913. Their title, Principia Mathematica, g ●●

1910 Great Idaho Fire burns three million acres ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The evolution in the Forest Service’s mission began with the Great Idaho Fire of 1910, which burned some three million acres in Idaho and Montana, and led to the death of eighty-five people. ●●

1910 Mary Harriman funds the Eugenics Record Office ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On February 16, 1910, widow Mary Harriman agreed to fund the creation of the Eugenics Record Office, donating $15,000 per year (eventually over half a million dollars total) to establish the database that would catalog the genetic backgrounds of millions of Americans. ●●

c. 1910 The Round Table journal launched 0 cit. The Round Table movement launched its quarterly journal, 'The Round Table: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Commonwealth.' The journal gave the network a public voice for arguing its views on imperial federation and Commonwealth affairs. It continues publication today, now focused on Commonwealth and international affairs rather than imperial unity. culture / politics ●

31 May 1910 Union of South Africa formed 0 cit. The British colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River united into the self-governing Union of South Africa within the British Empire. Political power was reserved for white voters; Black, Coloured, and Indian South Africans were largely excluded from the franchise, with only a limited qualified vote retained in the Cape. Louis Botha, a former Boer general, became the Union's first Prime Minister. politics ●●●

1910 Hilferding publishes Finance Capital ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rudolf Hilferding's Finance Capital, written by the Austrian Marxist, supplied Lenin with the second main pillar of his theory of imperialism as monopoly finance capitalism. ●●

July 1910 Rangers and posses lynch Black Texans during the Slocum massacre 0 cit. A white mob killed an unknown but substantial number of Black residents of Slocum, Texas, over several days; state Rangers were dispatched afterward, ostensibly to restore order, but no one was ever prosecuted for the killings. The Slocum massacre is documented mainly through local records and later scholarly reconstruction, since contemporary official accounts minimized it, and historians treat it as part of a broader pattern in which Rangers were sent after racial violence rather than deployed to prevent it. society ●●

c. 1 January 1910 Bureau splits into Home and Foreign Sections 0 cit. The Secret Service Bureau divided into a Home Section under Vernon Kell, which handled counter-espionage inside Britain and its empire, and a Foreign Section under Mansfield Cumming, which ran agents abroad. The Home Section grew into the Security Service, MI5. The Foreign Section grew into the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. politics ●●

1910 Edmond Locard founds the first forensic crime laboratory 0 cit. Edmond Locard established a police laboratory in Lyon dedicated to the scientific examination of physical evidence, generally regarded as the first crime laboratory of its kind. Locard is best known for articulating the exchange principle, the idea that every contact between a criminal and a crime scene leaves a trace. His laboratory became a model that other countries, including the FBI, later copied. science ●●●

c. 1910 Paternalist rule and the colour bar 0 cit. Belgium ran the Congo as a paternalist state built on a partnership of the colonial administration, the Catholic Church, and large companies. Africans were provided basic schooling and health care aimed at producing obedient workers, but were barred from higher education, political rights, and senior jobs by an informal colour bar. The system kept Congolese people subordinate while presenting itself as benevolent guardianship. politics / society ●●

c. 1910 The Octopus and the enclave economy 0 cit. Across Central America, United Fruit builds a self-contained enclave economy: company land, company railroads, company ports, company telegraph lines, and company towns with their own stores and scrip. Locals called it El Pulpo, "the Octopus," for the reach of its tentacles. Profits flowed north while host nations gained little tax revenue and little control. economy / society ●●●

c. 1910 The Mission Schools and the First Christian Converts 0 cit. Protestant and Catholic missions spread across Kikuyu country in the early 1900s, and their schools offered literacy, Christianity, and a path into clerical and church employment. The athomi, the readers, became the first mission-educated Africans and gained standing and opportunity through their ties to the colonial order. This new Christian, literate group is the seedbed of the progressive African class that later aligned with the government against the oath-bound fighters. culture / religion / society ●●

1910 Isaiah Shembe founds the Nazareth Baptist Church 0 cit. The Zulu prophet Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church, one of the largest of the Zionist-type African independent churches. He wove Zulu custom, dance, and dress together with Christian worship, offering a faith that did not require Africans to abandon their culture. Such churches asserted a spiritual independence that quietly rejected the missionaries' claim to define the true religion. culture / religion / society ●●

c. 1910 The Loss of the Kikuyu Lands at Kiambu 6 cit. Along the southern edge of Kikuyu country, near Kiambu and Limuru, settlers took some of the most fertile ridges, land the Kikuyu insisted they had bought or cleared, not abandoned. Officials often argued the ground had been emptied by the famine and smallpox of the 1890s, but the Kikuyu held that it had owners who were still alive. These contested ridges, remembered as stolen land, became the seedbed of Kikuyu grievance and later of Mau Mau. economy / society ●●

c. 1910 The lodge as a networking club of the colonial establishment 0 cit. Freemasonry in colonial Kenya functioned mainly as a network of status and mutual aid among administrators, settlers, and professionals, meeting behind closed doors for ritual and dining. Membership signaled standing in the small European elite and could smooth business and official ties. This was a secular fraternal role, distinct from the missions, whose purpose was evangelism and schooling. The date marks the pattern rather than a single event, so it is approximate. politics / society ●●

c. 1910 Collapse of the Arab-Swahili plantation economy 0 cit. Without enslaved labour, the great coastal plantations that had grown grain, coconuts, and cloves went into steep decline, and the Arab-Swahili landowning class lost its economic base. Estates fell idle or passed to absentee owners while former slaves and Mijikenda cultivators worked them as squatters. The coast's old commercial engine seized up just as the interior was being opened for settler agriculture. economy / society ●●

c. 1910 The lakeside worked as a labour reserve 0 cit. The densely settled lands around Lake Victoria were treated mainly as a reservoir of workers for settler farms and towns, and as fertile ground for mission schools. Men migrated out for wage labour while the region itself saw limited local investment beyond what fed the labour supply. Missionised and drawn on for its people, the lakeside developed in a lopsided way, neither settler core nor neglected margin. economy / society ●●

c. 1910 Dukawalla shopkeepers spread retail trade across the country 0 cit. Indian-run dukas reached nearly every town and rural centre, handling much of the colony's retail trade and the buying of African produce. The dukawalla became the everyday face of Indian settlement across Kenya. This visible role also placed the community between white rulers above and the African majority below, a middleman position that later drew resentment. economy / society ●●

c. 1910 Goan clerks and Sikh artisans staff the colonial economy 0 cit. Goan Catholic clerks filled government and railway offices while Sikh and Gujarati fundis worked as masons, carpenters, mechanics, tailors and fitters. Different communities, including Ismaili, Hindu, Sikh, Goan and Bohra, tended to cluster in distinct trades and keep their own institutions. Together they ran much of the day-to-day machinery of the colony below the European ranks. economy / society ●●

1910 Rotary clubs federate into a national association 0 cit. Sixteen clubs formed the National Association of Rotary Clubs of America and elected Paul Harris its first president. The federation gave the movement a shared structure as new clubs formed across the country. It was renamed the International Association of Rotary Clubs as the movement crossed borders. economy / society ●●

1910 Rotary spreads beyond the United States 0 cit. A club chartered in Winnipeg became the first Rotary Club outside the United States. Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland followed within two years. The rapid international growth pushed the movement to reorganize as an association of clubs in many countries. economy / society ●●

c. 1910 Rotary and Freemasonry share roots but not identity 0 cit. In the early twentieth century Rotary grew alongside the older fraternal orders, and many early members also belonged to Masonic lodges. Both traditions valued fellowship, ethics, and mutual aid among men of standing. Rotary, however, is not a Masonic body: it has no secret ritual or oath, publishes its membership and activities, and centers on open community service rather than initiation. religion / society ●●

1910 The Union of South Africa and the exclusion of Black South Africans 0 cit. Britain unites its colonies and the former republics into the self-governing Union of South Africa in 1910, reconciling with the defeated Boers. The settlement is made between whites, and the black majority is left almost entirely without the vote. The compromise hardens into a system of land and labour control that leads on to formal segregation and, after 1948, apartheid. politics / society ●●●●

c. 1910 Kikuyu, Embu and Meru locked into the reserve system 2 cit. With the mountain communities conquered, the administration fixed their boundaries and folded them into native reserves under appointed headmen and chiefs. The Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru were grouped as a bloc of reserves that later shared a single political framework. Confined land, taxes, and labour demands replaced the older order of ridges and elders. economy / politics ●●

c. 1910 Taita-Taveta becomes a colonial labour reserve 3 cit. Colonial rule alienated much of the plains land around the Taita Hills for settler estates, railways and sisal plantations, penning the Taita into their hills. With little room to farm, men were drawn into wage labour on the sisal and the Voi railway works. The community was pulled into the bottom of a cash economy that it did not control. economy / politics ●●

c. 1910 Missionaries borrowed the local name for God 0 cit. When missionaries translated the Bible, they usually took the existing high-god name for the Christian God. Kikuyu scripture used Ngai, Luo and Luhya texts used Nyasaye and Were, and so on. This eased conversion, since the God preached seemed to be the God already known, and it quietly conceded that the people had worshipped one creator before the missionaries came. politics / religion ●●●

c. 1910 Colonial and missionary readings of the Mbwaa story 1 cit. Anne-Marie Peatrik traces how the recorded versions were reshaped by their collectors. Early administrators such as Hobley, Horne, and Hopkins pressed the story into a migration narrative that made the population legible for government and dropped its absurd episodes, while missionaries matched the water-crossing to the biblical Exodus to serve conversion. Lambert's later linguistic reconstruction added its own errors, wrongly tracing "Mbwaa" to a Swahili word for coast across unrelated languages. culture / politics / religion ●●

c. 1910 Eastern White Highlands become the Kikuyu land crisis 2 cit. The eastern or Central highland edge of the White Highlands, around Kiambu, Limuru, the Aberdares and Mount Kenya, cut into Kikuyu land claims and also tightened pressure on Embu and Meru communities around Mount Kenya. That geography produced the sharpest direct link between lost family land, loyalist advantage, squatter eviction and Mau Mau. It also fed the later smallholder title, coffee and cooperative order in Central Kenya. economy / politics / society ●●●●

10 October 1911 to 12 February 1912 Xinhai Revolution wikidata 0 cit. no story revolution in China that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China ●●●

29 December 1911 Independence of Mongolia 0 cit. no story Outer Mongolia declares independence from Qing China under the Bogd Khan; independence was secured by the 1921 revolution. politics ●●●

29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912 Italo-Turkish War 0 cit. no story Italy seizes Ottoman Libya and the Dodecanese islands, using aircraft in combat for the first time. Ottoman weakness revealed by the war helps trigger the Balkan Wars. war ●●

15 May 1911 Breakup of Standard Oil 0 cit. The U.S. Supreme Court finds Standard Oil an illegal monopoly and orders it split into 34 companies, among them the ancestors of Exxon, Mobil, and Chevron. It remains the landmark antitrust action in business history. economy / politics ●●●●●

16 June 1911 Founding of IBM 0 cit. The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company forms from a merger of punched card and scale makers, renamed IBM in 1924. Under the Watsons it comes to dominate business machines and then the computer industry. economy / technology ●●●●

c. 1911 Hollywood emerges as a film center 0 cit. The Nestor Company opened Hollywood's first film studio in 1911, and filmmakers drawn by sunshine, varied scenery, and distance from eastern patent enforcers clustered nearby. Within a decade Hollywood was the capital of American cinema. culture / economy ●●●●

1911 Xinhai Revolution and fall of the Qing 0 cit. An uprising at Wuchang in October 1911 sparked a revolution that spread across China. It ended more than two thousand years of imperial rule. politics / war ●●●●●

1911 Taylor publishes The Principles of Scientific Management 0 cit. Frederick Taylor set out a system for studying and timing work to raise output. His scientific management reshaped factory labor and drew criticism for treating workers as machines. economy / society ●●●●

15 May 1911 Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil 0 cit. On 15 May 1911 the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly and ordered it split into 34 separate companies. The decision reshaped American antitrust law and the oil industry. economy / politics ●●●●●

c. 1911 Mobil's flying red horse is Pegasus of Greek myth 0 cit. The Socony oil company adopted a flying red horse as its trademark around 1911, the winged horse Pegasus of Greek mythology. The emblem was later carried by Mobil. economy / religion / technology ●●

1911 Assassination of Prime Minister Stolypin, 1911 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia's reforming and repressive chief minister Pyotr Stolypin was assassinated in the presence of the tsar in 1911. ●●

1911 Discovery at Hankow precipitates 1911 revolution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The discovery of the revolutionists' headquarters at Hankow in 1911 precipitated the revolution, as Sun Yat-sen returned from abroad and Yuan Shih-kai forced the Manchu abdication. ●●

1911 Payment for Members of Parliament introduced ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Payment for Members of Parliament was adopted first in 1911 at 400 pounds a year, later raised in 1936 to 500 pounds with an expenses allowance. Before this, unpaid seats restricted membership to the well-to-do. ●●

1911 Parliament Act of 1911 curbs the House of Lords ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Parliament bill, law in August 1911, stripped the Lords of any veto over money bills and limited them to a suspensive veto: any other bill became law if passed by the Commons in three sessions over at least two years. ●●

1911 Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley marks the 1911 appearance of Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management as a step in spreading rationalization from production to business efficiency. ●●

1911 Curtis decides the Empire should be renamed 'Commonwealth of Nations' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley claims Lionel Curtis's ideas became policy a generation later. In 1911 Curtis decided the Dominions should be called the 'Commonwealth of Nations', which he says was made official in 1948. ●●

1911 Round Table organization set up in Canada (1911) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says Arthur Glazebrook, on instructions from Milner and working with Curtis, Kerr and Marris, set up the Round Table organization in Canada in 1911. About a dozen units were established. ●●

1911 Lothian's 1911 warning on two codes of morality ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the August 1911 Round Table, the future Lord Lothian wrote that two codes of international morality, British and German, could not both prevail. Quigley cites it as evidence of the Group's early anti-German stance. ●●

1911 Frederick Taylor publishes Principles of Scientific Management ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Frederick Taylor published Principles of Scientific Management in 1911. Wood says 'Taylorism' shaped business, government and the technocratic emphasis on efficiency. ●●

1911 Public Education Association calls for schools as welfare agencies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that in 1911 the Public Education Association, which he describes as run by bankers and society figures, announced an urgent need to convert public schools into child welfare agencies. ●●

1911 Birth of Frances 'Bootie' Zimmer, Gatto's mother ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto's mother, Frances Zimmer, was born on Halloween 1911 in Monongahela, three years before the country had an income tax or a Federal Reserve Bank. ●●

1911 Robert Michels publishes Political Parties ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites the German sociologist Robert Michels, who in his 1911 book Political Parties warned that large bureaucracies could use their wealth to buy off critics and resist reform. Gatto applies the argument to school bureaucracies. ●●

1911 Wilson meets Colonel Edward Mandell House ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says Wilson met kingmaker Edward Mandell House in November 1911, beginning House's grooming of Wilson for the presidency. It quotes both men describing an immediate meeting of minds. ●●

1911 John Foster Dulles joins Sullivan & Cromwell ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Foster Dulles joined Sullivan & Cromwell, the country's most eminent corporate law firm, as a clerk, beginning a nearly forty-year career there. ●●

1911 Death of Albert von Rothschild in Vienna ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Albert von Rothschild, the last major figure of his generation in Vienna, died in 1911, after which his younger son Louis assumed control of the Vienna house. ●●

1911 Jim Loeb marries Toni Hambuechen ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Jim Loeb married nurse Toni Hambüchen and moved to Hochried, a vast Bavarian estate, where they lived a reclusive life. He never returned to New York. ●●

1911 Official secrecy: the classification of state knowledge 0 cit. Britain's Official Secrets Act and its imitators give the state the power to classify information and punish its disclosure. Control of secret knowledge, what the public may and may not know, became a defining tool of the modern security state. pillar / politics / society ●●●

14 December 1911 Amundsen wins the race to the South Pole 0 cit. Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team becomes the first to reach the geographic South Pole, beating the British party of Robert Scott. It was the climax of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. exploration / society ●●●●

1911 Supreme Court orders breakup of Standard Oil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered that the Standard Oil Company be broken up ●●

1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, where 146 workers, mainly immigrant teenage girls, died ●●

1911 Henri Bergson publishes Creative Evolution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Philosopher Henri Bergson publishes Creative Evolution, associating thought process with form of movie at extreme point of mechanization ●●

1911 Mexican Revolution overthrows Porfirio Diaz ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The resulting social tensions exploded in the Mexican Revolution, another convulsive affair that led to Díaz’s overthrow in 1911 and lasted until 1916. ●●

1911 Death of Francis Galton, founder of eugenics ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Francis Galton, the founder of the eugenics movement, died in 1911. His passing marked the transition of eugenic thought from his idealistic vision to more coercive and negative forms of eugenics promoted by followers in America. ●●

1911 Merger forms Computing-Tabulating-Recording, IBM forerunner ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These were to merge in 1911 to form the Computing-Tabulator Recording Company, the forerunner of International Business Machines ●●

1911 Supreme Court breaks up American Tobacco Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In tobacco, the American Tobacco Company remained all-powerful until 1911, when it was broken up by a Supreme Court decision ●●

1 November 1911 First recorded aerial bombing in warfare 0 cit. During the Italo-Turkish War, Italian aviator Giulio Gavotti dropped small grenades by hand from his monoplane onto Ottoman positions near Tripoli, the first aerial bombardment in the history of warfare. Italy had also used aircraft for reconnaissance earlier that year, another military first. The episode showed early European militaries that aircraft could serve as offensive weapons, not just scouts. technology / war ●●

18 October 1911 House of the Temple Cornerstone Laid 0 cit. The Scottish Rite's Supreme Council laid the cornerstone for the House of the Temple, its new national headquarters in Washington, D.C. Architect John Russell Pope modeled the building on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Grand Master J. Claude Keiper of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia presided over the ceremony. Construction took four years to finish. culture / religion ●●

c. 1911 Victoria Nyanza Lodge consecrated in Entebbe, Uganda 0 cit. Victoria Nyanza Lodge No. 3492 was consecrated at Entebbe in the Uganda Protectorate, extending organized English Freemasonry beyond Kenya's borders into the wider East African territories administered from Nairobi and Mombasa. It became one of the founding lodges of what would later be grouped together as the District Grand Lodge of East Africa. The lodge's founding is documented in the District Grand Lodge's own historical records, though some sources give slightly inconsistent dates for the exact year. society ●

1911 Franklin D. Roosevelt is initiated a Freemason 0 cit. Franklin D. Roosevelt was initiated into Holland Lodge No. 8 in New York City in 1911. He remained a Mason throughout his political career, and his membership is documented in lodge and Masonic biographical records. politics / society ●●

18 August 1911 The first Parliament Act ends the Lords' veto over money bills 0 cit. After the unelected House of Lords blocks the Commons' 1909 budget, the Parliament Act removes the Lords' power to veto money bills and limits it to a two-year delay on other legislation. It settles, in law, that the elected Commons holds ultimate authority over finance and, increasingly, over lawmaking generally. politics ●●●

25 March 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire spurs labor reform 0 cit. A fire at a garment factory killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women trapped behind locked doors. The disaster fueled the women-led labor movement and led to new workplace safety laws. economy / society ●●

1911 Sam Zemurray buys a coup in Honduras 0 cit. The banana trader Sam Zemurray, head of the rival Cuyamel Fruit Company, bankrolls an armed overthrow of the Honduran government to protect his concessions and tax breaks. He hired the mercenary Lee Christmas and helped install the exiled Manuel Bonilla as president. It became a textbook case of a company toppling a government for private gain. economy / politics ●●●

1911 Copper smelting begins in Katanga 0 cit. Union Miniere poured its first Katangan copper at the Star of the Congo mine near the new town of Elisabethville, today Lubumbashi. The colony was reshaped around the mines, drawing in migrant labor and building a railway to ship metal out to the coast. Katanga became one of the world's great copper producers, its output feeding European and American industry rather than local development. economy / technology ●●

1911 Carnegie's fortune becomes a philanthropic engine 0 cit. Andrew Carnegie creates the Carnegie Corporation of New York, adding to earlier bodies like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His giving built libraries, funded research and pushed an agenda for international order. Like Rockefeller, he showed how a single industrial fortune could steer public life for generations. culture / economy / society ●●

August 1911 The Official Secrets Act of 1911 passes in a day 0 cit. Amid a public panic about German spies, Parliament rushed a sweeping new Official Secrets Act through in a single day with almost no debate. Its notorious Section 2 made the unauthorized sharing of any official information a crime, no matter how trivial or harmless. The catch-all clause stayed on the books until 1989 and became a model for secrecy laws across the British Empire. politics / war ●●●

1911 Ford takes mass production across borders 0 cit. Ford opened an assembly plant at Trafford Park near Manchester, extending American mass-production methods into Europe, and soon built plants in Germany and beyond. Fordism became a globally exported system, not just a set of factories but a model of industrial organization. The car majors became early examples of firms whose operations, workforce, and influence spanned continents. economy / technology ●●

15 May 1911 Standard Oil is broken up by antitrust 0 cit. The US Supreme Court found Standard Oil an illegal monopoly and ordered it split into 34 separate companies, several of which grew into today's oil majors. It was a landmark moment of the state pushing back against a firm that had grown too dominant. The breakup set a precedent that a government could dismantle a company on grounds of size and market power alone. economy / politics ●●

1911 Muhumusa and the Nyabingi resistance 0 cit. The Nyabingi movement of the Uganda-Rwanda borderlands centered on a female spirit, Nyabingi, whose priestesses claimed her power to heal and to command. The best known, Muhumusa, led armed resistance to German and then British authority until her capture and detention by the British in 1911. The cult continued under other mediums for years, and its persistence pushed the British to outlaw it. politics / religion / war ●●

1911 The Second Maasai Move and the Maasai Case 2 cit. A second agreement in 1911 forced the northern Maasai off the Laikipia plateau, which settlers coveted, and crowded them into an enlarged southern reserve. Some Maasai leaders challenged the move in court in 1912 to 1913, arguing the treaty had been broken, but the case was thrown out on the ground that a dispute between the Crown and its protected subjects was not one the courts could hear. The move stripped the Maasai of about half their remaining land and remains a live grievance. diplomacy / politics / society ●●●

1911 The Second Maasai Move 0 cit. Only seven years after promising the northern reserve was permanent, the government forced the Laikipia Maasai to trek south so their plateau could be opened to settlers. A new agreement in 1911, of doubtful validity, joined the two reserves into one southern block, and the drive south cost many cattle and lives. The broken promise made clear that colonial treaties with Africans held only as long as they suited the settlers. economy / politics ●●

1911 The second Maasai Agreement clears Laikipia for ranches 0 cit. A second Anglo-Maasai Agreement removes the northern Maasai from Laikipia and moves them to an enlarged southern reserve. The plateau is thrown open to European ranching, and its Maasai occupants never regain the land. This forced move is the origin of the large private holdings that still dominate Laikipia. politics / society ●●●

1911 Rotary adopts the motto Service Above Self 0 cit. At its Portland convention Rotary embraced two guiding phrases, later summed up as Service Above Self and He Profits Most Who Serves Best. The idea tied membership to volunteer service rather than only to business contacts. Service Above Self was later declared the principal motto of Rotary. society ●●

1911 The 1911 removal empties Laikipia for white ranchers 3 cit. A second agreement in 1911 forced the northern Maasai to leave Laikipia and crowd into an enlarged southern reserve, breaking the promise that the earlier reserves would last as long as the Maasai existed. The move was pushed through so that settlers could take the well-watered Laikipia grasslands for ranches. Driving herds south cost the Maasai many more cattle along the way. economy / politics ●●●●