Mexico: Day of the Dead (TRIH ep 264)
1910 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the history and modern mythology of Mexico's Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos). They challenge popular assumptions that the festival is an unbroken pre‑Columbian tradition, tracing key elements—sugar skulls, pan de muerto, altars—to post‑Conquest and especially 19th–20th century Spanish and Mexican developments.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1910
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)