WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened March to December 1912

Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States. (5. November 1912)

U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. (14. August 1912)

Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands (4. September 1912)

First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces (21. October 1912)

The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio. (7. November 1912)

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. (25. September 1912)

Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland. (28. September 1912)

Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. (30. March 1912)

William 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. (19. December 1912)

Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. (27. November 1912)

Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. (22. April 1912)

Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines. (5. March 1912)

The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. (2. April 1912)

U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. (3. October 1912)

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. (7. March 1912)

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire. (19. October 1912)

Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. (8. July 1912)

Paramount Pictures is founded. (8. May 1912)

Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. (4. June 1912)

First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. (16. December 1912)