| January 1 | Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day |
| January 1 | South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government |
| January 2 | Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
| January 3 | U.S. postal savings bank inaugurated |
| January 5 | Portuguese expel Jesuits |
| January 5 | SF has it's 1st air meet |
| January 7 | 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF |
| January 7 | Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam |
| January 10 | 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego |
| January 10 | Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified) |
| January 10 | Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
| January 13 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin |
| January 13 | Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay |
| January 13 | South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
| January 16 | Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east |
| January 17 | Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
| January 17 | Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in New York City |
| January 18 | 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) |
| January 26 | Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego |
| January 26 | Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden |
| January 28 | Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo |
| January 30 | 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba |
| January 31 | Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site |
| February 5 | Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
| February 6 | 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona |
| February 6 | Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey |
| February 8 | U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras |
| February 8 | Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in New York City |
| February 17 | 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) |
| February 21 | Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse elegique) |
| February 25 | Opera "Natoma," premieres in Philadelphia |
| March 3 | 1st U.S. federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri |
| March 4 | Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S. |
| March 7 | U.S. sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border |
| March 7 | Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker |
| March 8 | 1st International Woman's Day |
| March 13 | Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in New York City |
| March 13 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4 |
| March 16 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4 |
| March 18 | North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
| March 20 | National Squash Tennis Association forms (New York City) |
| March 20 | Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway New York City |
| March 25 | L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay |
| March 25 | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls |
| March 30 | Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed |
| April 3 | Harry James Smith' "Mrs. Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in New York City |
| April 4 | Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP |
| April 5 | MCC tour match vs. Jamaica finishes in a tie |
| April 5 | Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
| April 12 | 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m) |
| April 13 | Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames |
| April 15 | Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St. New York City |
| April 15 | Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning |
| April 19 | 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6 |
| April 19 | George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London |
| April 30 | Portugal approves woman suffrage |
| May 2 | French troops occupy Fes El Bali Morocco |
| May 9 | Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland |
| May 13 | 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05 |
| May 13 | New York Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st) |
| May 15 | British house of commons accept Parliament Bill |
| May 15 | Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates |
| May 15 | Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil with the Sherman Antitrust Act |
| May 16 | Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK |
| May 16 | Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf |
| May 17 | 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51 |
| May 18 | President/dictator Jose Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends |
| May 19 | Maurice Ravels opera "L'Heure Espagnole," premieres in Paris |
| May 19 | Philadelphia Athletics are 12 games back in AL, and will win World Series |
| May 20 | Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts vs. Sussex |
| May 22 | Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row |
| May 23 | New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft |
| May 25 | Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz |
| May 26 | 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run |
| May 29 | 1st running of Indianapolis 500 |
| May 30 | 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) |
| June 1 | 1st U.S. group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey |
| June 3 | "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1 |
| June 5 | Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win |
| June 6 | Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to U.S., not ratified |
| June 8 | Belgium government of Schollaert falls |
| June 10 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam |
| June 11 | Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15 |
| June 11 | UNIA founded by Garvey |
| June 17 | Belgium government of De Broqueville forms |
| June 20 | NAACP incorporates in New York |
| June 22 | King George V of England crowned |
| June 24 | 17th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago Golf Club in Illinois |
| June 26 | Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph, 133 kph |
| June 28 | Joseph Caillaux forms government in France |
| June 29 | Freiherr Gautsch von Frankenthurn becomes premier |
| June 30 | Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War |
| June 30 | U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes |
| July 1 | German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco |
| July 1 | Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins |
| July 3 | Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day |
| July 4 | 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Vernon, Vermont (state record) |
| July 4 | 106 degrees F (41 degrees C) at Nashua, New Hampshire (state record) |
| July 4 | Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak |
| July 4 | White Sox Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak |
| July 7 | 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60) |
| July 7 | Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record |
| July 8 | Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse |
| July 10 | 105 degrees F (41 degrees C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) |
| July 14 | 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines |
| July 15 | 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines |
| July 17 | Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army |
| July 20 | Boston Red Sox Smokey Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 |
| July 20 | Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany |
| July 24 | Cleve's League Park hosts 1st unofficial ML All Star game (benefit game for Addie Joss' family). Cleveland Naps lose to All Stars 5-3 |
| July 24 | Hiram Bingham discovers Lost City of the Incas |
| July 28 | 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands |
| July 29 | Boston Red Sox Joe Wood no-hits St. Louis Browns, 5-0 |
| July 31 | Hungarian education is only taught in German |
| August 1 | Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point |
| August 2 | Haiti's dictator Simon flees on U.S. warship near Jamaica |
| August 10 | Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords |
| August 14 | General Leconte appointed temporary President of Haiti |
| August 15 | Procter and Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening |
| August 19 | New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times |
| August 22 | Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913) |
| August 22 | Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris |
| August 23 | British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany |
| August 24 | Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal |
| August 27 | Chicago White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits Boston, 5-0 |
| August 28 | 45.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia (state record) |
| August 31 | Anthony Fokker's demonstrates aircraft "Snip" |
| September 1 | M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km |
| September 2 | Joao Chagas forms Portuguese government |
| September 3 | 31st U.S. Mens Tennis: Wm A Larned beats Maurice E McLoughlin (64 64 62) |
| September 4 | Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft) |
| September 9 | 1st European airpost (Hendon to Windsor, England) |
| September 12 | Boston's Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of Giants, Giants win 9-0 |
| September 17 | 25th U.S. Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats F Sutton (8-10 61 97) |
| September 18 | Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
| September 18 | Louis Napoleon Parker's "Disraeli," premieres in New York City |
| September 19 | Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights |
| September 20 | Yankees set team record 12 errors in a double header |
| September 22 | Cy Young beats Pitts 1-0 for his final career victory, number 511 |
| September 23 | Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot |
| September 25 | French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
| September 25 | Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park |
| September 25 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| September 29 | Gun magazine of French battleship Liberte explode |
| September 29 | Italy declares war on Turkey |
| September 29 | New York Yankees steal 15 bases and get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning |
| October 1 | United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hour day |
| October 4 | 1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station) |
| October 5 | Italian troops occupy Tripoli |
| October 6 | Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot |
| October 6 | Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game |
| October 10 | Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day) |
| October 11 | Ty Cobb (AL) and Frank Schulte (NL) are 1st MVPs, each gets an auto |
| October 14 | Largest baseball crowd ever 38,281 (Polo Grounds) see Giants beat A's, 2-1 (gate is record $77,379) |
| October 19 | Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch |
| October 20 | Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210 W 46th St. New York City |
| October 20 | Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole |
| October 21 | Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Unions form Western Canada Rugby Football Union |
| October 21 | RS Hichens and M Hudsons "Garden of Allah," premieres in New York City |
| October 24 | Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
| October 26 | Philadelphia A's beat New York Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series |
| October 28 | Bill Dobbie of Calgary Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game |
| October 30 | Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators |
| November 4 | Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma |
| November 4 | France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo |
| November 5 | Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (84 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17) |
| November 5 | Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica |
| November 6 | Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
| November 10 | Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly and charitable works) |
| November 10 | Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) |
| November 15 | Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins |
| November 18 | Britain's 1st seaplane flies |
| November 18 | Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance |
| November 19 | New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy |
| November 20 | Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich |
| November 23 | Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital |
| November 25 | 3rd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7 |
| November 27 | Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US |
| November 28 | Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico |
| December 7 | Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in New York City |
| December 7 | National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria |
| December 10 | Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days) |
| December 10 | Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace |
| December 14 | South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen |
| December 23 | Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich |
| December 23 | Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin) |
| December 25 | Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in New York City |
| December 29 | Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins |
| December 29 | SF Symphony formed |
| December 30 | Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs vs. Australia at MCG |
| December 30 | Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China |
| December 31 | Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize |
