1912

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1909 1910 1911 – 1912 – 1913 1914 1915

1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Art, music, theatre, literature, movies

• May 29 - Premiere of Nijinsky's ballet The Afternoon of a Faun in Paris

Events

• 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.
• April 14–15 – The R.M.S Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Over 1500 people died.
• Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

• January 28- Jackson Pollack
• June 23 – Alan Turing
• September 5 – John Cage
• October 17 – Pope John Paul I

Deaths

• February 12 – Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Norwegian doctor and scientist (b. 1841)
• May 30 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
• April 15 – Over 1500 people die on the R.M.S Titanic