1912 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1912?
- 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 – 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 5, 1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
- March 7, 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 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 10, 1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
- June 4, 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- 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, New York.
- 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 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 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- December 3, 1912 – Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long First Balkan War.
- December 28, 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
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