Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundson reaches the South Pole on 14 December 1911, making him the first person to set foot there.
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Paul Sarasin delivers his address “Über die Aufgaben des Weltnaturschutzes” (On Tasks of the World Nature Protection Movement).
The disaster affects Tokyo, Yokohama, and vast parts of the Japanese island of Honshu.
A period of drought in the American Great Plains, combined with unsustainable agricultural practices, turns the region into a “Dust Bowl.”
The outbreak of the Spanish Influenza kills more than twelve million people in India.
United States and Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) sign the Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in 1916.
New Zealand’s deadliest earthquake causes the death of 258 people in the Hawke’s Bay region.
This South American cactus moth is used to combat the spread of the prickly pear.
The first nature reserve in Java, Indonesia, is established on the Krakatau volcanic island.
More than 10,000 people are killed during the earthquake in the Bihar region of Eastern India.