1912: Encyclopedia II - 1912 - Events

1912 - Events

1912 - January-March

• January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
• January 5 - Prague Party Conference
• 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.
• January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• February 8 - Mexican Revolution - Military rebellion against the rule of Francisco Madero begins in Mexico City. Battles last for 10 days
• 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.
• February 18 - Francisco Madero is forced to resign - battle ends. All members of Madero's government are arrested.
• February 19 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time
• February 22 - Francisco Madero and Pino Suarez are shot, allegedly when they "tried to escape"
• 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 27 - Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
• March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.

1912 - April-September

• 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 3 - The first victims of the RMS Titanic are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 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 12 - Greek island of Icana declares independence (Greece annexes it in November)
• 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 - 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 period 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.

1912 - October-November

• 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 - Chios 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.

1912 - December

• 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.

1912 - Unknown dates

• 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 Lake Guatavita to find gold – they find nothing.
• African National Congress

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