1912

1912 in other calendars
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

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 in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar. who resembles to the 1932 years.

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.
April 20 – Fenway Park opens in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox defeat the New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11 innings in the first game. It is the oldest active ballpark.
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births

January

January 8 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and theatre and film director (d. 1992)
January 28 – Jackson Pollack, American artist (d. 1956)

June

June 23 – Alan Turing, English mathematician (d. 1954)

July

August

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

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)