FormationThe 1910s

Formation in the 1910s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged formation — origins, unifications and the founding of states as each nation's archive records them, narrowed to the 1910s — 9 of them, drawn from 9 nations, running from 1910 to 1919. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
9
Nations
9
Earliest
1910
Latest
1919
Europe
7
Africa
1
Asia
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. Africa

    South Africa

    Union of South Africa

    The four British colonies were united into the self-governing Union of South Africa under the South Africa Act, a white-controlled state that excluded the Black majority from political power.

    Era: Diamonds, gold, the South African War and Union

    Sources: The Union of South Africa 1910 · South African History Online, South Africa Act · Encyclopaedia Britannica, South Africa (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. Asia

    China

    Republic of China founded; last emperor abdicates

    Sun Yat-sen becomes provisional president of the Republic of China on 1 January 1912, and on 12 February the child emperor Puyi abdicates, ending more than two millennia of imperial rule.

    Era: The Fall of the Empire: Republic, Warlords, and War

    Sources: China · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Europe

    Ukraine

    Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed

    Amid the Russian Revolution, the Central Rada in Kyiv under Mykhailo Hrushevsky proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic, the first modern Ukrainian state.

    Era: National Awakening and the Ukrainian People's Republic

    Sources: Ukraine: World War I and the struggle for independence · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Ukraine · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. Europe

    Czechia

    Foundation of Czechoslovakia

    With Austria-Hungary collapsing, independence was proclaimed in Prague on 28 October 1918; Tomas Garrigue Masaryk became the first president of the new multi-ethnic democratic republic.

    Era: Czechoslovakia, the Munich Betrayal and Nazi Occupation

    Sources: Tomas Masaryk · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Foundation of Czechoslovakia · National Museum, Prague (Google Arts & Culture)

  5. Europe

    Romania

    Union of Transylvania with Romania

    A great national assembly of Romanians at Alba Iulia proclaimed the union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania, the central act in the creation of Greater Romania.

    Era: Greater Romania: the Great War and the union of Transylvania

    Sources: Treaty of Trianon · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  6. Europe

    Serbia

    Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes proclaimed

    Prince Regent Alexander proclaimed the South Slav kingdom in Belgrade, uniting Serbia and Montenegro with former Habsburg lands under the Serbian crown; it was renamed Yugoslavia in 1929.

    Era: The Birth of Yugoslavia and the World Wars

    Sources: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Serbia in the Yugoslav kingdom · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  7. Europe

    Slovakia

    Czechoslovakia and the Martin Declaration

    Czechoslovakia was declared in Prague on 28 October 1918; on 30 October the Slovak National Council endorsed the union in the Martin Declaration, giving the Slovaks their first modern statehood alongside the Czechs.

    Era: Czechoslovakia, the Slovak State and the Uprising

    Sources: Czechoslovakia · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Slovakia · Slovakia.travel (official tourism portal)

  8. Europe

    Slovenia

    Birth of the Yugoslav kingdom

    After the brief State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Slovene lands joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, proclaimed on 1 December 1918 and renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929.

    Era: Into Yugoslavia: War, Partition and Contested Borders

    Sources: Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Slovenia since 1918 · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  9. Europe

    Belarus

    Founding of the Byelorussian SSR

    As the Germans withdrew, the Bolsheviks announced the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic; in 1922 it became one of the four founding republics of the Soviet Union.

    Era: People's Republic, Soviet Republic and Terror

    Sources: Belarus: The emergence of the Belorussian S.S.R. · Encyclopaedia Britannica