Death of the last Carolina parakeet
The eastern US loses its only native parrot
On 21 February 1918 Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, the only parrot native to the eastern United States, died at the same Cincinnati Zoo as Martha. Wild sightings were reported later, but the species was declared extinct in 1939.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 4 years earlier
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — same year
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 2 years later
- 1939–1945 World War II — 21 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 13 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 1 year later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 10 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 15 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 1 year earlier
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 1 year earlier
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 11 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 18 years later
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 10 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 10 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 3 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 2 years earlier
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 2 years earlier
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 21 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 14 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 4 years later
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 17 years later
Asia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — 22 years earlier
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — 7 years earlier
- 1923 Great Kantō earthquake — 5 years later
- 1931 China floods — 13 years later
- 1934–1935 Long March — 16 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 25 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 7 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 6 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 18 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 71)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 62)
- Marie Curie (aged 51)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 49)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 48)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 47)
- Winston Churchill (aged 44)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 40)
- Albert Einstein (aged 39)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 37)