1912 - What happened in 1912 ?

January 1912

Monday 01:

The Republic of China is established.

Thursday 04:

The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.

Friday 05:

Prague Party Conference

Saturday 06:

New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.

Wednesday 17:

Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

February 1912

Monday 12:

China adopts the Gregorian calendar.

Wednesday 14:

In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

Sunday 25:

Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

March 1912

Friday 01:

Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.

Tuesday 05:

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

Sunday 10:

Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.

Tuesday 12:

The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts in the US) are founded in the US.

Saturday 30:

Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.

April 1912

Sunday 14:

The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage, plunging beneath the waves and taking with it over 1,500 lives at about 2:20 a.m. the following morning.

Monday 15:

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks at about 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic almost three hours earlier.

Tuesday 16:

Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

Saturday 20:

Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sunday 21:

The New York Giants and New York Yankees play an exhibition game to benefit survivors of the RMS Titanic.

May 1912

Saturday 04:

Italy occupies the island of Rhodes.

Sunday 05:

The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.

Monday 13:

In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established.

June 1912

Thursday 06:

Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. Second largest volcanic eruption in historic time.

Saturday 08:

Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.

Wednesday 19:

1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.

July 1912

Friday 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.

August 1912

Monday 05:

Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.

Wednesday 14:

United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya resigned three years earlier

Saturday 24:

Alaska becomes a United States territory.

Sunday 25:

The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.

September 1912

Monday 23:

First Mack Sennett "Keystone Comedy" is released.

Wednesday 25:

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York,_New York.

October 1912

Monday 07:

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

Monday 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.

Thursday 17:

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War

Saturday 19:

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Thursday 31:

Dominican Republic becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

November 1912

Tuesday 05:

U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.

Thursday 07:

The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Tuesday 12:

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Wednesday 27:

Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

Thursday 28:

Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

December 1912

Tuesday 03:

Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.

Wednesday 18:

Piltdown Man is "discovered"

Thursday 19:

William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which killed over 1,000 people was pardoned by President Taft after 3 1/2 years in Sing Sing prison .