WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened January to December 1912

The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates. (12. February 1912)

Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. (16. April 1912)

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

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

The African National Congress is founded. (8. January 1912)

King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after it's liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. (12. November 1912)

Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. (28. November 1912)

First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje. (26. October 1912)

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

The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal charter. (4. January 1912)

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

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

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

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

The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. (6. June 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)

Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time." (16. March 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)

First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani. (11. October 1912)