1912
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s – 1910s – 1920s 1930s 1940s |
Years: | 1909 1910 1911 – 1912 – 1913 1914 1915 |
Gregorian calendar | 1912 MCMXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2665 |
Armenian calendar | 1361 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6662 |
Bahá'í calendar | 68–69 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1833–1834 |
Bengali calendar | 1319 |
Berber calendar | 2862 |
British Regnal year | 2 Geo. 5 – 3 Geo. 5 |
Buddhist calendar | 2456 |
Burmese calendar | 1274 |
Byzantine calendar | 7420–7421 |
Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4608 or 4548 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4609 or 4549 |
Coptic calendar | 1628–1629 |
Discordian calendar | 3078 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1904–1905 |
Hebrew calendar | 5672–5673 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1968–1969 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1833–1834 |
- Kali Yuga | 5012–5013 |
Holocene calendar | 11912 |
Igbo calendar | 912–913 |
Iranian calendar | 1290–1291 |
Islamic calendar | 1330–1331 |
Japanese calendar | Meiji 45 / Taishō 1 (大正元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1841–1842 |
Juche calendar | 1 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4245 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 1 民國1年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 444 |
Thai solar calendar | 2454–2455 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 2038 or 1657 or 885 — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 2039 or 1658 or 886 |
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events[change | change source]
- 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[change | change source]
January[change | change source]
- January 8 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director (d. 1992)
- January 28 – Jackson Pollack, American artist (d. 1956)
February[change | change source]
- February 19 – Anton Buttigieg, 2nd President of Malta (d. 1983)
March[change | change source]
- March 5 – Jack Marshall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
- March 12 – Pat Nixon, 39th First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
- March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
- March 27 — James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
April[change | change source]
- April 8 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
- April 15 – Kim Il-sung, Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)
May[change | change source]
- May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
June[change | change source]
- June 23 – Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)
July[change | change source]
August[change | change source]
- August 13 – Salvador Luria, Italian American microbiologist (d. 1991)
- August 23 – Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer (d. 1996)
- August 25 – Erich Honecker, East German leader (d. 1994)
September[change | change source]
- September 5 – John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- September 21 – Chuck Jones, American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films (d. 2002)
October[change | change source]
- October 7 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 49th and 52nd President of Peru (d. 2002)
- October 17 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
November[change | change source]
December[change | change source]
- December 2 – Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (d. 1980)
- December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, 38th First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
Deaths[change | change source]
- 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
- December 11 - James Otis, American children's writer
Art, music, theatre, literature, movies[change | change source]
- May 29 - Premiere of Nijinsky's ballet The Afternoon of a Faun in Paris