Florence Nightingale died on 13 August 1910 in London, aged 90. An English social reformer and statistician, Nightingale was named after the Italian city of her birth and defied family expectations to become a nurse. In 1854 she led a team of nurses to British military hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean War, where she improved sanitation and care, and her night rounds with a lamp earned her the nickname the Lady with the Lamp. She later used statistical diagrams to show that most soldiers died of disease and poor conditions rather than wounds, influencing army reform. In 1860 she founded a nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, laying the foundations of modern professional nursing, and she wrote the influential Notes on Nursing.
Before and after
- from 31 May 1910 to 31 May 1961Union of South Africa
- from 1 June 1910 to 14 June 1913Terra Nova Expedition
- from 3 June 1910 to 30 January 1912Amundsen's South Pole expedition
- 11 June 1910Birth of Jacques Cousteau
- 13 August 1910Death of Florence Nightingale
- 26 August 1910Birth of Mother Teresa
- 1 October 1910Los Angeles Times bombing
- from 3 October 1910 to 5 October 19105 October 1910 revolution
- 19 October 1910Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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