WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened August to December 1912

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

First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. (8. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. (23. October 1912)

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. (7. October 1912)

The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum. (6. August 1912)

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

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. (17. October 1912)

First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war. (18. October 1912)

The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulster Protestants in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. (28. September 1912)

The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson. (18. December 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory. (24. October 1912)

Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. (2. September 1912)

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

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

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (12. November 1912)

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

While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. (14. 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)

Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) (3. December 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)