First public demonstration of television
Baird transmits moving human faces for the first time
On 26 January 1926 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird showed scientists in London's Soho a transmission of moving images of human faces. Mechanical television soon gave way to electronic systems developed by Vladimir Zworykin, Philo Farnsworth and others.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 12 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 8 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 13 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 21 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 9 years earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 9 years earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 3 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 10 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 15 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 18 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 11 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 10 years earlier
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 10 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 6 years later
Africa
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 22 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 4 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 9 years later
Asia
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 15 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 3 years earlier
- 1931 China floods — 5 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 8 years later
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 19 years later
Americas
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 13 years earlier
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 12 years earlier
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 12 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 3 years later
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 4 years later
Oceania
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 15 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 14 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 10 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 15 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 16 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 79)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 70)
- Marie Curie (aged 59)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 57)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 55)
- Winston Churchill (aged 52)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 48)
- Albert Einstein (aged 47)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 45)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (aged 45)