In Norway, women gain the right to vote.

An outbreak of the bubonic plague kills over one million people in India.

The Immigration Act is passed by the US Congress, defining a number of ethnic groups as socially undesirable, and imposing a head tax of $4 on those allowed to enter the country.

On Friday, March 13, the New York Stock Exchange collapses resulting in massive withdrawals of cash from US banks. Financier J. P. Morgan injects enough money into the system to prevent the closure of the stock exchange.

Lord Baden-Powell establishes the Boy Scout movement in Britain.

Cunard launches the SS Lusitania, at that time the world's largest ocean liner.

In the US, the first electric washing machine and the first portable vacuum cleaner go on sale.

Pablo Picasso paints "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" marking the beginning of Cubism, but the painting is not displayed in public until 1937.

Florence Ziegfeld begins his "Follies" in New York, introducing the world to a new fashion of slim females.