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.

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)

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)