WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened September to December 1912

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

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

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

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

Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. (2. September 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 begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. (8. October 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)

Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands (4. September 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 Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. (23. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. (19. November 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)

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. (28. December 1912)

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

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

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

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

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