1912

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.


 * January 1 – The Republic of China was established.
 * January 4 – The Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth, by Royal Charter.
 * New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States.
 * German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
 * January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.
 * The Manchu Qing Dynasty of China comes to an end after 268 years, with the abdication of Emperor Puyi in favor of the Republic of China.
 * Arizona becomes the 48th U.S. state and the last of the contiguous United States which pushed the American frontier to the brink.
 * Amundsen and the South Pole
 * Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
 * Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
 * April 15: The RMS Titanic sinks.
 * White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.
 * April 11 – RMS Titanic makes her last call, at Queenstown in Ireland.
 * April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of between 1,517 and 1,636 lives. The wreck would not be discovered until 1985.
 * April 16 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
 * April 17 – Lena massacre: Russian troops kill or wound 500 striking gold miners in Siberia. A hybrid solar eclipse was the 30th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 137 on April 17th, 1912
 * Alaska becomes a territory of the United States.
 * The Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.
 * United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS Annapolis in Nicaragua, to support the conservative government at its request.
 * Phil Decker is born March 5th, 1912 in Queens New York City.
 * Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun March 23, 1912
 * 1910 — 1912 Japanese Antarctic Expedition - led by Nobu Shirase
 * 1910 — 1912 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition - On 14 December 1911, reached the South Pole