1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- January 1, 1912 – The Republic of China is established.
- January 6, 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
- January 17, 1912 – 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 18, 1912 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- March 16, 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
- April 14, 1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
- April 18, 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
- May 8, 1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
- June 30, 1912 – The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada’s deadliest tornado event.
- September 25, 1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
- October 11, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.
- 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: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration “To the Serbian People”, as Serbia joins the war.
- October 19, 1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- November 19, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
- December 3, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
- December 8, 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
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