1912

1912 is a leap year starting on Monday.

Years: 1909 1910 1911 - 1912 - 1913 1914 1915
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Contents

1 Events

Events

January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
February 12 - Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
February 14 - In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 1 - Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of the famous Austrian singing family memorialized in the musical The Sound of Music marries Agathe
March 5 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
March 7 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
March 7 – French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours
March 12 - The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts) are founded.
March 16 – Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time"
March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.

April 15 - Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
April 17 – Solar eclipse in Europe.
April 19 - United States Senate inquiry into the Titanic sinking begins.
May 2 - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of Titanic begins.
May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
June 4 - Fire in Constantinople - 1120 buildings destroyed
June 5 - US Marines land on Cuba
June 6-June 8 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska, second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.
June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
July 30 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan, dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, the Taisho Emperor. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji Era and the beginning of the Taisho Era.
August 12 - Sultan Abd al-Hafiz of Morocco abdicates.
August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York,_New York.

October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper William Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.
October 16 - Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.
November 7 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opened in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
November 11 - Khios declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
November 24 - Mine explosion in Hokkaido, Japan - 245 dead
November 27 - Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
November 28 - Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

December 3 - First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.

Sea Scouting begins under the aegis of the Boy Scouts of America
Kazimierz Funk identifies vitamins.
The first blues song, "The Memphis Blues ," is published.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift
Mount Katmai in Alaska explodes
Piltdown Man presented in Britain
British treasure hunters try to drain the Guatavita Lake to find gold – they find nothing
African National Congress

January 1 - Kim Philby, spy (d. 1988)
January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (d. 1988)
January 8 - José Ferrer, actor (d. 1992)
January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange , German lyricist, narrator and essayist (d. 1984)
January 16 - Franz Tumler , Austrian narrator (d. 1998)
January 28 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (d. 1956)
January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (d. 1989)
February 4 - Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist (d. 1991)
February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla , Czechoslovakian, pianist.
February 18 - Heinz Kühn , politician (d. 1992)
February 19 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
February 20 - Pierre Boulle, author (d. 1994)
February 27 - Lawrence Durrell, writer (d. 1990)