Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

Before World War I, the Portuguese Republic, established by the revolution of October 5, 1910, was the first of the 20th century.

Before 1910 the city boasted a church, three grain elevators, a hardware store, two mercantile stores, a butcher shop, bank, machine shop, implement shop, blacksmith shop, pool hall, lumberyard, and a hotel, which also housed the barber shop, saloon, and post office.

Before 1910, they also performed on vaudeville and minstrel show records, one of which, " The Camp Meeting Jubilee ", released in 1904 as Victor no.

Before World War I he held a number of senior positions relating to weapons development, before being appointed Chief of Staff of the North Sea Command in 1908, rising to Rear Admiral on 27 January 1910.

Before 1918, the town had a German-speaking majority ( in the last Austrian census of 1910, 57. 7 % of the inhabitants declared German as their language of daily communication ), while the surroundings were almost exclusively Slovene-speaking.

Before the Japanese annexation in 1910, the island was usually known as Quelpart to Europeans.

Before 1910, it was the king's task to ensure that no one party remain too long in government, by disbanding parliament and calling for new elections.

Before the 1910 season, the Reds traded Huggins, along with Frank Corridon and Rebel Oakes, to the St. Louis Cardinals in return for Fred Beebe and Alan Storke.

Before World War I they manufactured automobile and marine engines, and from 1910 on cars.

Before his time as governor, he served as President of the Board of Regents of Kansas State Agricultural College from 1910 to 1913.

Before 1908 – 1910 restoration

* A History of England Before the Norman Conquest ( 1910 ; 8th ed.

Before Mary Pickford, the public used to call Florence Lawrence the " Biograph girl "; but in 1910 Lawrence was lured away from Biograph by Carl Laemmle when he started his new Independent Motion Picture Company ( IMP ).

The first mass rally ( tabor ) in support of a United Slovenia took place in Ljutomer in 1868. Before 1918, the town had a substantial German speaking minority: in 1910, 46 % of the inhabitants of the town were German speakers.

Before the end of 1902 Sbarretti was sent to Canada as Apostolic Delegate and remained there until recalled to Rome in 1910.

Before 1910 Picasso was already being recognized as one of the important leaders of Modern art alongside Henri Matisse who had been the undisputed leader of Fauvism and who was more than ten years older than he was and his contemporaries the Fauvist André Derain and the former Fauvist and fellow Cubist, Georges Braque.

Before, however, the final carve-up of the estate could be undertaken, the leader of the consortium, Sir Thomas Bent, died and the property was put on the market in 1910.

* 1910: " The Morning After the Night Before "; " When A Boy From Old New Hampshire Loves A Girl From Tennessee

Before the fourth edition, skill and ability checks worked as follows: all actions in the game, from the use of skills to making attacks in combat, are first given a target number that reflects the difficulty of the action which is then raised or lowered by various modifying factors, such as environmental conditions, the condition of the character, the use of mechanical aids, and so forth.

Before the marriage, Chagall had difficulty convincing Bella's parents that he would be a suitable husband for their daughter.

Before the vote, the representative of Costa Rica expressed his " concern at the manner in which the draft resolution on which we are about to vote was negotiated " and a " difficulty in understanding the absolute refusal to include " references to human rights .. MINURSO's budget is roughly 60 million dollars per year.

( Before the scene ends, Modestia consults the Hermit about her personal spiritual difficulty.

Before the bridge was completed in 1826, the island had no fixed connection to the mainland and all movements to and from Anglesey were by ferry ( or, with difficulty, on foot at low tide ).

Before Exceed was released, the difficulty for all game modes ranged from 1 to 10, with the exception of " Vook ", a song introduced on The Premiere 2, which was level 12 on Double mode.

Before 2009, the cost of touring in the US, difficulty obtaining visas, and the band's low profile in North America prevented them from including tour dates there.

Before Hurricane Katrina the incumbent Ray Nagin was widely expected to be reelected with little difficulty, but post-disaster problems and controversies had left many New Orleanians interested in new leadership.

Before that time, a clique of generals residing in Rio de Janeiro controlled major decisions of the army.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

" Before Diderot ," Anne Louise Germaine de Staël wrote, " I had never seen anything in pictures except dull and lifeless colours ; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his genius.

Before 1537 Cabeza de Vaca crossed central Texas or northern Mexico from the Gulf to northwest Mexico.

Before Baldorioty de Castro, other leaders had mentioned the possibility of autonomy, generally as an answer to the Spanish insistence in instituting special laws to govern the colonies.

Before his death he had urged the College of Cardinals to elect Giovanni di San Paolo as his successor, but Lotario de ' Conti was elected pope on the very day on which Celestine III died.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

" Before this de Monte had censored it by deleting most references to idolatry.

* Before this year – Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de St-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made.

* 1265 – Before August – Future King Edward I escapes captivity in the hands of Simon de Montfort.

Before this, however, he travelled to Medina del Campo, where he met the charismatic Teresa de Jesús.

Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.

Before the Code, France did not have a single set of laws-law consisted mainly of local customs, which had sometimes been officially compiled in " customals " ( coutumes ), notably the Coutume de Paris.

Before Henry held real power, it was alleged that there was a plot to spirit Eleanor away and deliver her to the king of France ; de Maulay was accused of the plot and fell out of favour.

Before the faculty could do so, the Parlement de Paris intervened, forbidding the Sorbonne faculty to consider the propositions.

Before the 2010 regulations, the complete list of the actual and theoretical varieties also included Pinot de Juillet and Pinot Rosé.

Before Tortosa, across the river, rise the massive Ports de Tortosa-Beseit mountains.

Before the switch from blue and white to red and white, only one other team wore red and white, Sporting de Gijón, since 1905.

Before his death he had the upper terrace widened to hold a larger parterre and enclosed with latticework and pavilions ; his successor, Louis XII, built a gallery round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France.

Before their marriage, Marguerite took revenge upon the Marquis de St. Cyr, who had ordered her brother to be beaten for his romantic interest in the Marquis ' daughter, with the unintended consequence of the Marquis and his sons being sent to the guillotine.

Before all these marriages he had a marriage contract with Joan, daughter of William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon, but that engagement was broken off in 1200.

With Tim Brown they formed a new Independent Group of Councillors with Dennis de Lord as leader and Tim Brown as deputy leader, to put People Before Politics.

Before leaving England to fight in the Holy Lands, Ernulf de Hesdin gave ownership of Ruislip to the Benedictine Bec Abbey in 1087.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.