1910s

File:1910s montage.png|From left, clockwise: the Ford Model T is introduced in 1908 and becomes widespread in the 1910s; the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 causes the deaths of nearly 1,500 people and attracts global and historical attention; CONTEXT: all the events below are part of World War I (1914–1918); French Army lookout at his observation post in 1917; Russian troops awaiting a German attack; a ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme; Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd in the midst of the Russian Revolution, beginning in 1917; T

term for the period 1789–1914 (from the French Revolution to the outbreak of WW1)