Important Historical Events of the year 1912, Year 1912 in History
List of 1912 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1912
What happened in the year 1912?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1912 | The Republic of China is established. |
| January 4, 1912 | The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. |
| January 5, 1912 | The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement. |
| January 6, 1912 | New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state. |
| January 6, 1912 | German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift. |
| January 8, 1912 | The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC). |
| January 11, 1912 | Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week. |
| January 17, 1912 | British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. |
| January 23, 1912 | The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. |
| February 12, 1912 | The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. |
| February 14, 1912 | Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state. |
| February 14, 1912 | The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines. |
| February 25, 1912 | Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. |
| February 29, 1912 | The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks. |
| March 5, 1912 | Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. |
| March 6, 1912 | Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet. |
| March 12, 1912 | The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. |
| March 30, 1912 | Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. |
| April 2, 1912 | The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. |
| April 10, 1912 | RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage. |
| April 14, 1912 | The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink. |
| April 15, 1912 | The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive. |
| April 16, 1912 | Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. |
| April 17, 1912 | Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150. |
| April 18, 1912 | The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. |
| May 4, 1912 | Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes. |
| May 8, 1912 | Paramount Pictures is founded. |
| May 13, 1912 | The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom. |
| May 18, 1912 | The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai. |
| June 4, 1912 | Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. |
| June 6, 1912 | The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.[21] |
| June 8, 1912 | Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures. |
| June 30, 1912 | The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan. |
| July 8, 1912 | Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. |
| July 30, 1912 | Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. |
| August 25, 1912 | The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking. |
| August 29, 1912 | A typhoon strikes China, killing at least 50,000 people. |
| September 2, 1912 | Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. |
| September 4, 1912 | Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands |
| September 25, 1912 | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. |
| September 28, 1912 | The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. |
| September 28, 1912 | Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. |
| October 3, 1912 | U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. |
| October 7, 1912 | The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. |
| October 8, 1912 | The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 11, 1912 | First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani. |
| October 14, 1912 | Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. |
| October 17, 1912 | Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. |
| October 18, 1912 | First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war. |
| October 19, 1912 | Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 21, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Greek navy completes the capture of the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles. |
| October 23, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. |
| October 24, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 24, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire. |
| October 26, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje. |
| November 2, 1912 | Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople. |
| November 5, 1912 | Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft. |
| November 7, 1912 | The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio. |
| November 12, 1912 | First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. |
| November 12, 1912 | The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. |
| November 19, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. |
| November 25, 1912 | Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, ceases its publications. |
| November 27, 1912 | Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. |
| November 28, 1912 | Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. |
| December 3, 1912 | Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) |
| December 6, 1912 | The Nefertiti Bust is discovered. |
| December 8, 1912 | Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. |
| December 16, 1912 | First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. |
| December 19, 1912 | William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{bor |
| December 28, 1912 | The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco. |