WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened April to December 1912

The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her only voyage. (10. April 1912)

Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures. (8. June 1912)

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

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

Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. (30. July 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)

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

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

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

Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston. (20. April 1912)

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

The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa. (10. June 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)

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

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