Timeline October 1909

Events in October 1909 5

• 1841 – 1909 Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909) Died 26 October 1909, aged 68 Itō Hirobumi was Japan's first Prime Minister and the principal architect of the Meiji Constitution, later serving as Resident-General of Korea. He was assassinated by Korean independence activist An Jung-geun at Harbin railway station on 26 October 1909. His death intensified tensions ahead of Japan's annexation of Korea the following year.
• 1859 – 1909 Francisco Ferrer (1859-1909) Died 13 October 1909, aged 50 Francisco Ferrer was a Catalan educator and anarchist who founded Barcelona's secular Escuela Moderna, promoting rationalist, non-religious schooling. Spanish authorities accused him of instigating the Tragic Week riots of July 1909 and executed him by firing squad on 13 October despite thin evidence. His death sparked international protests and made him a symbol for secular education and anti-clerical movements.
• 1909 A thousand miles on foot through Syria Ottoman Syria At twenty, alone and against advice, he walked over 1,000 miles in three months to survey 36 crusader castles. He was robbed, beaten and caught malaria, and came back with the material for his thesis.
• 1909 First professorship Associate professor of theoretical physics in Zurich Einstein resigned from the patent office in October 1909 to take a chair at the University of Zurich, at a salary barely above his clerk's pay. He was a nervous lecturer at first. It was the beginning of a decade of restless moves between universities.
• 1909 – 1992 Francis Bacon Expressionism · Ireland Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909 – April 28, 1992) was an Irish-born British painter whose raw, visceral depictions of the human figure are among the most disturbing and powerful in 20th-century art.