1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- January 6, 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
- January 23, 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
- February 14, 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
- February 18, 1912 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rat in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1912 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 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 15, 1912 – The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.
- April 16, 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- May 4, 1912 – Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
- July 8, 1912 – Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the Portuguese First Republic in Chaves.
- August 14, 1912 – United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- September 4, 1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
- September 28, 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ultonians in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
- 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.
- October 23, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
- October 26, 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje.
- 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 28, 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
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