1912: On This Year

1912

1912 (MCMXII in Roman Numerals) was the year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Is 1912 a year special to you? If so you may like to discover what 1912 was famous for, who won the Oscars and the Nobel Prizes in 1912, who was Time's Person of the Year in 1912, which books, music and movies were top of the charts in 1912, what Chinese zodiac sign is associated to 1912, what babynames were most popular that year, what was the World population on that year and what happend in 1912.

On this page we will address all your questions and curiosities about 1912 to help you enjoy your trip down memory lane.

history

What was 1912 known for ?

  • The year 1912 was a leap year, and the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic sank in the Pacific after hitting an iceberg.
  • This was also the year that the formation of the African National Congress by John Langalibalele Dube to call for improved rights of Black South Africans. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to Gerhart Hauptmann.
  • In probably the worst strike in the USA, close to 30,000 textile workers walked off from their jobs in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The strike started at the Everett Mill on January 11, spread to other mills. The Strike got ugly with shootings and stabbings; the striking families sent their children to Manhattan New York. The bread and roses strike lasted for a whole nine weeks and ended after an intervention from President Taft and the Congress.
  • Two days before Valentine's Day of 1912, the last emperor of China Hsian-T’ung abdicated after the Sun Yat-sen’s republican revolt. His abdication ended 267 years of Manchu rule and imperial rule, which lasted for 2,000 years. By the time of the revolution, the emperor was six years old, and he kept his residence in the Forbidden City in Beijing.
  • October 14 was the shooting of the Progressive’s presidential candidate of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt, on the chest, while greeting supporters. The perpetrator was a saloonkeeper, John Schrank with a .32-caliber bullet. A glasses case and a bundle of manuscripts in the breast pocket slowed down the bullet, and the 26th president of the USA escaped with minor injuries.
  • At the beginning of the year, the rotation of the Earth’s crust was the slowest ever recorded. Robert Falcon Scott, a British explorer and 4 companions arrived at the South Pole to find Amundsen beat them to it. Falcon and his team died on the return journey a few miles from a polar base.

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1912: What was the Chinese Zodiac sign associated with the year 1912?


According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1912 was the Year of the Rat.

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Nobel Prize

1912: Nobel Prize Winners of the Year


1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Elihu Root

1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Gerhart Hauptmann

1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Gustaf Dalén

1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Victor Grignard

1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Paul Sabatier

1912: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1912 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Alexis Carrel
world population

1912: What were the most popular baby names in the USA that year ?

The 3 most popular baby names in 1912 were John, William and James for boys and Mary, Helen and Dorothy for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1912: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1912 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • John
  • William
  • James
  • Robert
  • Joseph
  • George
  • Charles
  • Edward
  • Frank
  • Thomas

1912: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1912 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • Mary
  • Helen
  • Dorothy
  • Margaret
  • Ruth
  • Mildred
  • Anna
  • Elizabeth
  • Frances
  • Marie

vinyl songs

1912: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1912, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was Dreams of Long Ago by Enrico Caruso

1912: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1912 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

  1. Dreams of Long Ago by Enrico Caruso
  2. The Rosary by John McCormack
  3. Roamin' in the Gloamin' by Harry Lauder
  4. Aida - Celeste Aida by Enrico Caruso
  5. Snap Your Fingers by Al Jolson
  6. Humoresque by Fritz Kreisler
  7. I Love the Name of Mary by Walter Van Brunt

1912: What were the most popular movies that year ?

The most popular movies and box office hits in 1912 were:

The Raven

The Raven

Release year: 1912

Directed by: James McTeigue

The Cameraman's Revenge

The Cameraman's Revenge

Release year: 1912

Directed by: Ladislas Starevich

The Heart of an Indian

The Heart of an Indian

Release year: 1912

Directed by: Thomas H. Ince

Starring: Francis Ford, Ann Little, J. Barney Sherry, Art Acord

How a Mosquito Operates

How a Mosquito Operates

Release year: 1912

Directed by: Winsor McCay

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Release year: 1912

Directed by: George Nichols

Starring: Harry Benham, Mignon Anderson, Frances Gibson, Inda Palmer

history

What happened in 1912?

Here's what happened in 1912:

  • Jan 1, 1912: The Republic of China is established.
  • Jan 4, 1912: The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
  • Jan 5, 1912: The Prague Party Conference takes place.
  • Jan 6, 1912: New Mexico is the 47th state admitted to the USA.
  • Jan 9, 1912: US marines invade Honduras.
  • Jan 10, 1912: Caillaux government in France resigns.
  • Jan 12, 1912: -47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Washta Iowa (state record).
  • Jan 13, 1912: -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Oakland Maryland (state record).
  • Jan 17, 1912: Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen
  • Jan 18, 1912: English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
  • Jan 23, 1912: The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
  • Jan 29, 1912: Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence Massachusetts.
  • Feb 2, 1912: Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe).
  • Feb 9, 1912: US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion.
  • Feb 12, 1912: The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
  • Feb 14, 1912: Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
  • Feb 16, 1912: VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden.
  • Feb 22, 1912: J Vedrines makes first airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph.
  • Feb 24, 1912: Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser ''Giuseppe Garibaldi'' and the gunboat ''Volturno'' bombard the harbour. The attack kills 97 sailors and civilians.
  • Feb 26, 1912: Coal miners strike in England (settle on March 1).
  • Feb 27, 1912: Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway.
  • Feb 29, 1912: 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.
  • Mar 1, 1912: Isabella Goodwin, first US woman detective, appointed, New York City, New York.
  • Mar 5, 1912: Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die.
  • Mar 12, 1912: Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th Steet New York City.
  • Mar 13, 1912: Stanley Cup: QuTbec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (New Brunswick) in two games.
  • Mar 14, 1912: King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt.
  • Mar 15, 1912: Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
  • Mar 16, 1912: Mrs William Howard Taft plants first cherry tree in Washington DC.
  • Mar 17, 1912: Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick.
  • Mar 23, 1912: Dixie Cup invented.
  • Mar 27, 1912: 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.
  • Mar 29, 1912: Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far".
  • Mar 30, 1912: Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
  • Apr 2, 1912: Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
  • Apr 4, 1912: Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia.
  • Apr 6, 1912: Electric starter first appeared in cars.
  • Apr 8, 1912: Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200.
  • Apr 9, 1912: Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York.
  • Apr 10, 1912: RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage
  • Apr 11, 1912: Cornerstone of Technion in Haifa Palestine laid.
  • Apr 13, 1912: Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF).
  • Apr 14, 1912: Pan American Union forms.
  • Apr 15, 1912: Titanic sinks at 2:20 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
  • Apr 16, 1912: Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • Apr 17, 1912: Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
  • Apr 18, 1912: The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
  • Apr 19, 1912: 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of New York in 2:21:18.2.
  • Apr 20, 1912: Fenway Park officially opens, Boston Red Sox beat New York Highlanders 7-6 in 11.
  • Apr 22, 1912: Pravda, the ''voice'' of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
  • Apr 27, 1912: Relief laws replaces those of 1854, in the Netherlands
  • Apr 29, 1912: 108 degrees F (42 degrees C), Tuguegarao, Philippines (Oceania record high).
  • May 1, 1912: Beverly Hills Hotel opens.
  • May 4, 1912: Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes.
  • May 5, 1912: 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
  • May 7, 1912: Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer.
  • May 8, 1912: Paramount Pictures is founded.
  • May 9, 1912: American Numismatic Association receives federal charter.
  • May 11, 1912: 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4.
  • May 13, 1912: Royal Flying Corps is established in England.
  • May 15, 1912: Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game and is suspended.
  • May 18, 1912: Maurits Binger establishes two Dutch movie companies.
  • May 23, 1912: The Hamburg America Line's is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.
  • May 30, 1912: US Marines sent to Nicaragua.
  • May 31, 1912: US marines land on Cuba.
  • Jun 1, 1912: Stormvogels soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
  • Jun 4, 1912: Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
  • Jun 5, 1912: US marines invade Cuba (3nd time).
  • Jun 6, 1912: The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
  • Jun 7, 1912: US army tests first machine gun mounted on a plane.
  • Jun 8, 1912: Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
  • Jun 13, 1912: Captain Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane
  • Jun 15, 1912: 26th US Womens Tennis: Mary K Browne beats Eleonora Sears
  • Jun 19, 1912: Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A&L State College
  • Jun 20, 1912: New York Giants Josh Devore steals four bases in an inning (second and third twice).
  • Jun 26, 1912: Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
  • Jun 30, 1912: The Regina Cyclone hits Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28. It remains Canada's deadliest tornado event.
  • Jul 4, 1912: Jack Johnson TKOs Jim Flynn in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
  • Jul 6, 1912: 5th Olympic games in Stockholm opens
  • Jul 8, 1912: G E V Crutchley (Oxford) 99 retired measles vs. Cambridge
  • Jul 10, 1912: Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m
  • Jul 12, 1912: United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film ''Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth'' is influential on the development of the movie feature. Adolf Zukor, who incorporates Paramount Pictures on May 8, 1914, launches his company as the distributor. Paramount celebrates its centennial in 2012.
  • Jul 14, 1912: Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon
  • Jul 15, 1912: British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect.
  • Jul 16, 1912: Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske.
  • Jul 17, 1912: IAF (International Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
  • Jul 18, 1912: Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
  • Jul 19, 1912: In Holbrook, Arizona, USA 14,000 meteorite stones fall; no injuries reported.
  • Jul 22, 1912: 5th Olympic games in Stockholm closes
  • Jul 25, 1912: Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
  • Jul 30, 1912: Emperor Meiji of Japan dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.
  • Jul 31, 1912: RBC soccer team forms in Roosendaal
  • Aug 2, 1912: 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at Country Club - Buffalo, New York
  • Aug 4, 1912: United States occupation of Nicaragua: U.S. Marines land from the USS ''Annapolis'' in Nicaragua to support the conservative government at its request.
  • Aug 6, 1912: The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
  • Aug 7, 1912: Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for president.
  • Aug 12, 1912: Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
  • Aug 14, 1912: 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925.
  • Aug 20, 1912: Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect.
  • Aug 21, 1912: Mr Carter-Cotton chosen 1st chancellor of University of British Columbia
  • Aug 22, 1912: England defeat Australia to win the Triangular Tournament
  • Aug 24, 1912: US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the government.
  • Aug 25, 1912: Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
  • Aug 26, 1912: 32nd US Mens Tennis: M E McLoughlin beats W F Johnson (36 26 62 64 62)
  • Sep 4, 1912: 1st accident (collision) in Londoner Underground: 22 injured person
  • Sep 6, 1912: New York Giants Jeff Tesreau no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0.
  • Sep 7, 1912: Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
  • Sep 9, 1912: J Verdrines becomes first to fly over 100 mph (107 mph/172 kph).
  • Sep 11, 1912: Netherland Olympic Committee forms
  • Sep 12, 1912: Dutch Olympian Committee forms
  • Sep 15, 1912: War between Turkey and Montenegro breaks out in Albania
  • Sep 17, 1912: Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn and hits 4 singles
  • Sep 19, 1912: Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
  • Sep 22, 1912: Eddie Collins repeats record of stealing 6 bases in a game (9 / 7 / 12)
  • Sep 23, 1912: Mark Sennet presents 1st Keystone Cops film
  • Sep 25, 1912: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
  • Sep 27, 1912: W C Handy publishes Memphis Blues 1st Blues Song, 1912
  • Sep 28, 1912: SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
  • Sep 29, 1912: French / British troops lands on Samoa
  • Oct 6, 1912: Pirates Owen Chief Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
  • Oct 7, 1912: The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
  • Oct 8, 1912: First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
  • Oct 14, 1912: Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt shot while campaigning in Milwaukee.
  • Oct 16, 1912: Boston beats New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with a tie in 9th World Series.
  • Oct 17, 1912: Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
  • Oct 18, 1912: Beginning of the first Balkan War.
  • Oct 19, 1912: Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
  • Oct 20, 1912: Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St, New York City
  • Oct 21, 1912: During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
  • Oct 23, 1912: First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins.
  • Oct 24, 1912: First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
  • Oct 26, 1912: Woolwich Tunnel under Thames opens
  • Nov 5, 1912: Arizona, Kansas andWisconsin vote for female suffrage
  • Nov 7, 1912: The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
  • Nov 12, 1912: The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
  • Nov 18, 1912: Albania declares independence from Turkey.
  • Nov 23, 1912: Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
  • Nov 25, 1912: Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
  • Nov 27, 1912: Spanish protectorate in Morocco established.
  • Nov 28, 1912: Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
  • Nov 30, 1912: 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
  • Dec 3, 1912: Gerrit Brinkman becomes first Dutch traffic officer.
  • Dec 6, 1912: China votes for universal human rights.
  • Dec 7, 1912: Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt.
  • Dec 8, 1912: Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
  • Dec 16, 1912: Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia.
  • Dec 18, 1912: The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
  • Dec 19, 1912: William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
  • Dec 21, 1912: Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
  • Dec 23, 1912: Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation.
  • Dec 24, 1912: Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards.
  • Dec 28, 1912: San Francisco Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary Street
  • Dec 30, 1912: The First Balkan War ends temporarily: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League countries) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month-long war.
  • Jan 5, 1912: The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.

history

What does the year 1912 refer to in the Gregorian calendar?

The year 1912 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 13th year of the 20th century and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1911 and precedes 1913.

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