Italo-Turkish War
Italy takes Libya and drops the first bombs from a plane
In September 1911 Italy declared war on the Ottoman Empire and landed in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica; on 1 November Lieutenant Gavotti dropped grenades from his aeroplane on a Turkish camp, the first aerial bombing. The Treaty of Ouchy in October 1912 gave Libya to Italy.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 3 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 7 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 9 years later
Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 22 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 6 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 8 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 17 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 22 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1908 Tunguska event — 3 years earlier
- 1917 October Revolution — 6 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 6 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 18 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 3 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 3 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 4 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 5 years later
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 5 years later
Asia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 15 years earlier
- 1910 Japan annexes Korea — 1 year earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — same year
- 1919 Amritsar massacre — 8 years later
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 12 years later
Americas
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 1 year earlier
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 2 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 3 years later
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 3 years later
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 18 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 18 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 18 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — same year
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 1 year later
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 64)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 55)
- Marie Curie (aged 44)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 42)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 41)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 40)
- Winston Churchill (aged 37)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 33)
- Albert Einstein (aged 32)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 30)