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next turn year 1912

events

January[edit] Main article: January 1912 January 1 – The Republic of China was established.

January 4 – The Scout Association was incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth, by Royal Charter.

January 5 The Prague Party Conference takes place.

The Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet opens.

January 6 New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States.

German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.

January 8 – The African National Congress is founded as the South African Native National Congress, at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein, to promote improved rights for black South Africans, with John Langalibalele Dube as its first president.

January 14 – Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government in France, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.

January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.

January 18 – (Old Style January 5) Prague Party Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

January 22 – The Overseas Railroad opens, and the first train arrives in Key West, Florida at 10:43 a.m., with Henry M. Flagler, the railroad's creator and owner, aboard.

January 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. February[edit] Main article: February 1912 February 12 – The Manchu Qing dynasty of China comes to an end after 268 years, with the abdication of Emperor Puyi in favour of the Republic of China.

February 14 – Arizona becomes the 48th U.S. state, and the last of the contiguous United States which pushed the American frontier to the brink.

February 24 – Battle of Beirut: Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard the harbour, killing 97 sailors and civilians.

February 29 – Serbia and Bulgaria secretly sign a treaty of alliance for a term of eight years, with each pledging to come to the defense of the other during war. March[edit] Main article: March 1912

March 7: Amundsen and the South Pole

March 27: Cherry trees for Washington, D.C.

March 1 – Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane. March 6 – 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.[1] Oreo cookies introduced in the United States.[2]

March 7 – Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.

March 12 – The Girl Scouts is founded by Juliette Gordon Low, in Savannah, Georgia.

March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."

March 22 – The State of Bihar is formed out of the erstwhile State of Bengal, in British India.

March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.

March 29 – The remaining members of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition die.

March 30 – The French Third Republic establishes the French protectorate in Morocco. April[edit] Main article: April 1912

April 15: The RMS Titanic sinks.

April 1 – A partial lunar eclipse takes place, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1912. It was the 61st lunar eclipse of the 111th Saros cycle, which started with a penumbral lunar eclipse on June 10, 830 AD and will conclude with another penumbral lunar eclipse on July 19, 2092. April 10 – White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, England, 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.[3]

April 15 – Kim Il-sung, the North Korean leader from 1948 to 1994, was born.

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 17, 1912

April 18 – Cunard Line vessel RMS Carpathia arrives in New York, with the 710 RMS Titanic survivors. April 20 – Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts opens. Yogindranath Tagore founds Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School in West Bengal, India.

April 24 – English association football club Barnsley win the FA Cup.

April 30 – Carl Laemmle founds Universal Studios, as the Universal Film and Manufacturing Company in the United States.