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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1910:
1 Events
- First night flights.
- Races between aeroplanes and cars are only won by racing cars.
- Hugo Junkers gets a patent for his thick wing/all-wing type aeroplane.
- Harriet Quimby, the first licensed female pilot in the United States, becomes the first woman to fly the English Channel.
January
- First International Air Races in America. Held at Los Angeles.
- January 7, Frenchman Hubert Latham is the first pilot to climb to 1000 metres.
March
- March 10March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). There are 296 days remaining. Events 241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War. 1496 Christoph - Emil Aubrun makes the first night flights, in a Blériot Type IX at Villalugano , ArgentinaArgentina is a Spanish-speaking country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast and Chile in th.
- March 13March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). There are 293 days remaining. Events 483 St. Felix becomes Pope. 874 The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople. 1138 Cardin - Paul Engelhard makes the first flight in SwitzerlandThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in central Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international c, flying a WrightWright may refer to multiple places in the United States: Wright, Alabama Wright, Florida Wright, Indiana Wright, Michigan Wright, Hillsdale County, Michigan Wright, Ottawa County, Michigan Wright, Minnesota Wright, Marshall County, Minnesota Wright, Carl biplane from a frozen lake at St Moritz
- March 14March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years). There are 292 days remaining. Events 1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille ordered her 150 000 Jewish - Louis Paulhan flies 146 km in a straight route from Orleans to Trois.
- March 28March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). There are 278 days remaining. Events 800-1899 845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. - Henri Fabre makes the first flights in a seaplane at Matigues , France
April
- The French Air Force is formed as its own command, with a total of five aircraft.
June
July
- July 9, Frenchman Léon Morane sets a new speed record of 106 km/h.
- July 12 - Charles Rolls is killed in a crash at Bournemouth, becoming the first British aviation fatality
August
- first international aviation meeting is held at Reims in France.
- August 27 Frederick Baldwin and John McCurdy , using a Curtiss biplane, are the first pilots to send radio messages to the ground.
September
- September 23 - the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.
October
- Romanian inventor Henri Coanda (1886-1972), constructed the first prototypical thermojet, in the world, named the Coanda-1910, exhibited at the International Aeronautical Show in Paris and tested near Paris.
- October 2 - the first mid-air collision takes place near Milan. Both pilots survive, but one is badly injured.
November
December
