September: Sir George Cayley published his seminal paper On Aerial Navigation[?], setting out for the first time the scientific principles of heavier-than-air flight.
March 31 : Richard Pearse reputed to have made an uncontrolled powered flight in a heavier-than-air craft, a monoplane of his own construction, that crash lands on a hedge. (This date is computed from circumstantial evidence of eyewitnesses as the flight was not reliably documented at the time.)
December: After years of dedicated research and development, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright succeeded in creating and flying the first practical powered aeroplane.
October: Romanian inventor Henri Coanda (1886-1972), constructed the first jet engine in the world, named the Coanda-1910, exhibited at the International Aeronautical Show in Paris and tested near Paris.
May: Charles Kingsford-Smith[?], Ulm, Lyon and Warner flew the Southern Cross, a modified Fokker Trimotor[?] from San Francisco to Brisbane; the first air crossing of the Pacific.
... process increased rapidly.
The first direct elections for Africans to the Legislative Council took place in 1957.
The Kenya African National Union was founded ...