Second Sino-Japanese War
Founding The Republic of China
The Republic of China was founded in 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the last imperial dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
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- Mao Zedong
Resigning From The Army
Supporting the revolution, Mao joined the rebel army as a private soldier, but was not involved in fighting. The northern provinces remained loyal to the emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun—proclaimed "provisional president" by his supporters—compromised with the monarchist general Yuan Shikai. The monarchy was abolished, creating the Republic of China, but the monarchist Yuan became president. The revolution over, Mao resigned from the army in 1912, after six months as a soldier.
- David Ben-Gurion
To Istanbul
In 1912, he moved to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital, to study law at Istanbul University together with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and adopted the Hebrew name Ben-Gurion, after the Jewish leading figure Yosef Ben Gurion from the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans. He also worked as a journalist. Ben-Gurion saw the future as dependent on the Ottoman regime.
- Xinhai Revolution
The Last Manchu Troops Were Forced out of Tibet
The bulk of the area that was historically known as Kham was now claimed to be the Xikang Administrative District, created by the Republican revolutionaries. By the end of 1912, the last Manchu troops were forced out of Tibet through India.
- Xinhai Revolution
The First day of The First Year of The ROC.
1 January 1912, was set as the first day of the First Year of the ROC.
- Marie Curie
Declining The Warsaw Scientific Society offer
In 1912, the Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie.
- Marie Curie
She Was Hospitalised With Depression and a Kidney Ailment
A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalised with depression and a kidney ailment.
- Marie Curie
Curie Avoided Public Life
For most of 1912 she avoided public life but did spend time in England with her friend and fellow physicist, Hertha Ayrton.
- Charles de Gaulle
De Gaulle's graduated
Charles de Gaulle graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912.
- Armenian Genocide
First Balkan War broke out and ended with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire
In 1912, the First Balkan War broke out and ended with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire as well as the loss of 85% of its European territory. Many in the empire saw their defeat as "Allah's divine punishment for a society that did not know how to pull itself together". The Turkish nationalist movement in the country gradually came to view Anatolia as their last refuge. The Armenian population formed a significant minority in this region.
- Ho Chi Minh
Thành (Ho) traveled to The United States
While working as the cook's helper on a ship in 1912, Thành (Ho) traveled to the United States. From 1912 to 1913, he may have lived in New York City (Harlem) and Boston, where he claimed to have worked as a baker at the Parker House Hotel.
- Xinhai Revolution
The Provisional Vice President
On 3 January, the representatives recommended Li Yuanhong as the provisional vice president.
- Xinhai Revolution
Yili Uprising
On 7 January 1912, the Yili Uprising with Feng Temin began. Qing governor Yuan Dahua fled and handed over his resignation to Yang Zengxin, because he could not handle fighting the revolutionaries.
- Xinhai Revolution
The New Yili Government For The Revolutionaries
In the morning of 8 January, a new Yili government was established for the revolutionaries, but the revolutionaries would be defeated at Jinghe in January and February.
- Xinhai Revolution
Donghuamen Incident
On 16 January, while returning to his residence, Yuan Shikai was ambushed in a bomb attack organized by the Tongmenghui in Donghuamen, Beijing. A total of eighteen revolutionaries were involved. About ten of the guards died, but Yuan himself was not seriously injured. He sent a message to the revolutionaries the next day pledging his loyalty and asking them not to organize any more assassination attempts against him.
- Xinhai Revolution
Wu Tingfang Officially Delivered The Imperial Edict of Abdication To Yuan Shikai For The Abdication of Puy
Zhang Jian drafted an abdication proposal that was approved by the Provisional Senate. On 20 January, Wu Tingfang of the Nanking Provisional government officially delivered the imperial edict of abdication to Yuan Shikai for the abdication of Puyi.
- Xinhai Revolution
Sun Yat-sen announcement about His Resignation's Condition
On 22 January, Sun Yat-sen announced that he would resign the presidency in favor of Yuan Shikai if the latter supported the emperor's abdication. Yuan then pressured Empress Dowager Longyu with the threat that the lives of the imperial family would not be spared if abdication did not come before the revolutionaries reached Beijing, but if they agreed to abdicate, the provisional government would honor the terms proposed by the imperial family.
- Xinhai Revolution
Giving Yuan Full Permission To Negotiate The abdication Terms of The Qing Emperor
On 3 February, Empress Dowager Longyu gave Yuan full permission to negotiate the abdication terms of the Qing emperor. Yuan then drew up his own version and forwarded it to the revolutionaries on 3 February.
- Eiffel Tower
Franz Reichelt died after jumping from the first level of the tower
Just two years later, on 4 February 1912, Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt died after jumping from the first level of the tower (a height of 57 metres) to demonstrate his parachute design.
- Xinhai Revolution
Puyi and Empress Dowager Longyu Accepted Yuan's Terms of Abdication
On 12 February 1912, after being pressured by Yuan and other ministers, Puyi (age six) and Empress Dowager Longyu accepted Yuan's terms of abdication.
- Xinhai Revolution
Yuan Was Inaugurated as The Provisional President of The Republic of China
On 10 March, Yuan was inaugurated in Beijing as the provisional president of the Republic of China.
- Father's Day
Father's Day celebration was held in Vancouver
In 1912, a Father's Day celebration was held in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J.J. Berringer of the Irvington Methodist Church. They mistakenly believed that they had been the first to celebrate such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the Portland Oregonian.
- Plague
Plague infection is first reported in Cuba and Puerto Rico
Plague infection is first reported in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
- Titanic
Sea Trails Began
Titanic's sea trials began at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, 2 April 1912, just two days after her fitting out was finished and eight days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage.
- Titanic
The Plan
Titanic was planned to arrive at New York on the morning of 17 April.
- Xinhai Revolution
Making Beijing The Capital of The Republic
On 5 April, the Provisional Senate in Nanjing voted to make Beijing the capital of the Republic and convened in Beijing at the end of the month.
- Titanic
Voyage Began
Titanic's maiden voyage began on Wednesday, 10 April 1912. Following the embarkation of the crew the passengers began arriving at 9:30 a.m., when the London and South Western Railway's boat train from London Waterloo station reached Southampton Terminus railway station on the quayside, alongside Titanic's berth.
- Titanic
Arrived Cork
At 11:30 a.m. on Thursday 11 April, Titanic arrived at Cork Harbour on the south coast of Ireland.
- Titanic
Sinking
At 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) on 14 April, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. At 2:20 a.m., two hours and 40 minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater, and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. About 710 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic's original destination, while at least 1,500 people lost their lives.
- Marcus Garvey
Marcus sailed to England
Marcus then decided to travel to London, the administrative center of the British Empire, in the hope of advancing his informal education. In the spring of 1912, he sailed to England. Renting a room along Borough High Street in South London, he visited the House of Commons, where he was impressed by the politician David Lloyd George.
- Denmark expedition
Denmark Expedition Memorial was designed by Kai Nielsen
The memorial was unveiled in 1912. It was designed by Kai Nielsen in collaboration with Kaare Klint.
- The Wright brothers
Wilbur's Death
Wilbur died, at age 45, at the Wright family home on May 30.
- Francisco Franco
First lieutenant
At 19, Franco was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in June 1912.
- Carter G. Woodson
Woodson completed his PhD in history at Harvard University
Woodson completed his PhD in history at Harvard University in 1912, where he was the second African American (after W. E. B. Du Bois) to earn a doctorate. His doctoral dissertation, The Disruption of Virginia, was based on research he did at the Library of Congress while teaching high school in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctoral degree, he continued teaching in public schools, as no university was willing to hire him, ultimately becoming the principal of the all-black Armstrong Manual Training School in Washington D.C.
Birth
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing (1873 – 1947), was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at Chatrapur, then in the Madras Presidency and presently in Odisha state, in India. Turing's father was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. John Robert Turing, from a Scottish family of merchants that had been based in the Netherlands and included a baronet. Turing's mother, Julius' wife, was Ethel Sara Turing (née Stoney 1881–1976), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways. The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.
- Alan Turing
Born
Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912, in Maida Vale, London, England.
- Winston Churchill
Asquith's government introduced the Home Rule Bill
The central issue in Britain at the time was Irish Home Rule and, in 1912, Asquith's government introduced the Home Rule Bill.
- Flag of the United States
48 Stars flag
The flag was changed to have 48 stars. (for New Mexico, Arizona)
- Flag of the United States
Eben Appleton converted the loan to a gift
In 1907 Eben Appleton, New York stockbroker and grandson of Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead (the commander of Fort McHenry during the 1814 bombardment) loaned the Star Spangled Banner Flag to the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1912 he converted the loan to a gift. Appleton donated the flag with the wish that it would always be on view to the public.
- Hirohito
Hirohito became the Heir Apparent
When his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, died on 30 July 1912, Hirohito's father, Yoshihito, assumed the throne, and Hirohito became the heir apparent. At the same time, he was formally commissioned in both the army and navy as a second lieutenant and ensign, respectively, and was also decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum.
- X-ray
X-ray crystallography
In 1912, Max von Laue, Paul Knipping, and Walter Friedrich first observed the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. This discovery, along with the early work of Paul Peter Ewald, William Henry Bragg, and William Lawrence Bragg, gave birth to the field of X-ray crystallography.
- Marcus Garvey
Sister joined him in London
In August 1912, his sister Indiana joined him in London, where she worked as a domestic servant.
- Xinhai Revolution
Forming The Kuomintang
The Kuomintang was formed on 25 August 1912. The KMT held the majority of seats after the election. Song Jiaoren was elected as premier.
- Gustav Stresemann
Losing his seats
Stresemann's support of expanded social-welfare programs did not sit well with some of the party's more conservative members, and he lost his post in the party's executive committee in 1912. Later that year he lost both his Reichstag and town council seats.
- Severo Ochoa
Ocha's father death
His father died when Ochoa was seven, and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended elementary school through high school.
- Mexican Revolution
Founding The anarcho-Syndicalist Casa del Obrero Mundial Founded
The anarcho-syndicalist Casa del Obrero Mundial (House of the World Worker) was founded in September 1912 by Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Manuel Sarabia, and Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara and served as a center of agitation and propaganda, but it was not a formal labor union.
- Josip Broz Tito
Stayed with his older brother Martin and his family
By October 1912 he had arrived in Vienna where he stayed with his older brother Martin and his family and worked at the Griedl Works before getting a job at Wiener Neustadt where he worked for Austro-Daimler, and was often asked to drive and test the cars.
- Charles de Gaulle
De Gaulle rejoined the 33rd Infantry Regiment as a sous-lieutenant
In October 1912 he rejoined the 33rd Infantry Regiment as a sous-lieutenant (second lieutenant). The regiment was now commanded by Colonel (and future Marshal) Philippe Pétain, whom de Gaulle would follow for the next 15 years. He later wrote in his memoirs: "My first colonel, Pétain, taught me the art of command".
- Theodore Roosevelt
Assassination Attempt
On October 14, 1912, while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt was shot by a saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank. The bullet lodged in his chest after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket.
- Xinhai Revolution
The First National Assembly Election
In December 1912, The First National Assembly Election Took place according To The Provisional Constitution.
- Marie Curie
Returning To Her Laboratory
Curie returned to her laboratory in December, after a break of about 14 months.
- Mother's Day
Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder
In 1912 Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrase "Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder", and created the Mother's Day International Association.
- Benito Mussolini
Mussolini was the editor of "Avanti"
In 1912, he became editor of the newspaper Avanti! to which he gave a violent suggestive and intransigent orientation.
- Louis Armstrong
Arrested
Borrowing his stepfather's gun without permission, he fired a blank into the air and was arrested on December 31, 1912. He spent the night at New Orleans Juvenile Court, then was sentenced the next day to detention at the Colored Waif's Home.
- Second Sino-Japanese War
Founding The Republic of China
The Republic of China was founded in 1912, following the Xinhai Revolution which overthrew the last imperial dynasty of China, the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).
- Mao Zedong
Resigning From The Army
Supporting the revolution, Mao joined the rebel army as a private soldier, but was not involved in fighting. The northern provinces remained loyal to the emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun—proclaimed "provisional president" by his supporters—compromised with the monarchist general Yuan Shikai. The monarchy was abolished, creating the Republic of China, but the monarchist Yuan became president. The revolution over, Mao resigned from the army in 1912, after six months as a soldier.
- David Ben-Gurion
To Istanbul
In 1912, he moved to Istanbul, the Ottoman capital, to study law at Istanbul University together with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and adopted the Hebrew name Ben-Gurion, after the Jewish leading figure Yosef Ben Gurion from the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans. He also worked as a journalist. Ben-Gurion saw the future as dependent on the Ottoman regime.
- Xinhai Revolution
The Last Manchu Troops Were Forced out of Tibet
The bulk of the area that was historically known as Kham was now claimed to be the Xikang Administrative District, created by the Republican revolutionaries. By the end of 1912, the last Manchu troops were forced out of Tibet through India.
- Xinhai Revolution
The First day of The First Year of The ROC.
1 January 1912, was set as the first day of the First Year of the ROC.
- Marie Curie
Declining The Warsaw Scientific Society offer
In 1912, the Warsaw Scientific Society offered her the directorship of a new laboratory in Warsaw but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie.
- Marie Curie
She Was Hospitalised With Depression and a Kidney Ailment
A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalised with depression and a kidney ailment.
- Marie Curie
Curie Avoided Public Life
For most of 1912 she avoided public life but did spend time in England with her friend and fellow physicist, Hertha Ayrton.
- Charles de Gaulle
De Gaulle's graduated
Charles de Gaulle graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912.
- Armenian Genocide
First Balkan War broke out and ended with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire
In 1912, the First Balkan War broke out and ended with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire as well as the loss of 85% of its European territory. Many in the empire saw their defeat as "Allah's divine punishment for a society that did not know how to pull itself together". The Turkish nationalist movement in the country gradually came to view Anatolia as their last refuge. The Armenian population formed a significant minority in this region.
- Ho Chi Minh
Thành (Ho) traveled to The United States
While working as the cook's helper on a ship in 1912, Thành (Ho) traveled to the United States. From 1912 to 1913, he may have lived in New York City (Harlem) and Boston, where he claimed to have worked as a baker at the Parker House Hotel.
- Xinhai Revolution
The Provisional Vice President
On 3 January, the representatives recommended Li Yuanhong as the provisional vice president.
- Xinhai Revolution
Yili Uprising
On 7 January 1912, the Yili Uprising with Feng Temin began. Qing governor Yuan Dahua fled and handed over his resignation to Yang Zengxin, because he could not handle fighting the revolutionaries.
- Xinhai Revolution
The New Yili Government For The Revolutionaries
In the morning of 8 January, a new Yili government was established for the revolutionaries, but the revolutionaries would be defeated at Jinghe in January and February.
- Xinhai Revolution
Donghuamen Incident
On 16 January, while returning to his residence, Yuan Shikai was ambushed in a bomb attack organized by the Tongmenghui in Donghuamen, Beijing. A total of eighteen revolutionaries were involved. About ten of the guards died, but Yuan himself was not seriously injured. He sent a message to the revolutionaries the next day pledging his loyalty and asking them not to organize any more assassination attempts against him.
- Xinhai Revolution
Wu Tingfang Officially Delivered The Imperial Edict of Abdication To Yuan Shikai For The Abdication of Puy
Zhang Jian drafted an abdication proposal that was approved by the Provisional Senate. On 20 January, Wu Tingfang of the Nanking Provisional government officially delivered the imperial edict of abdication to Yuan Shikai for the abdication of Puyi.
- Xinhai Revolution
Sun Yat-sen announcement about His Resignation's Condition
On 22 January, Sun Yat-sen announced that he would resign the presidency in favor of Yuan Shikai if the latter supported the emperor's abdication. Yuan then pressured Empress Dowager Longyu with the threat that the lives of the imperial family would not be spared if abdication did not come before the revolutionaries reached Beijing, but if they agreed to abdicate, the provisional government would honor the terms proposed by the imperial family.
- Xinhai Revolution
Giving Yuan Full Permission To Negotiate The abdication Terms of The Qing Emperor
On 3 February, Empress Dowager Longyu gave Yuan full permission to negotiate the abdication terms of the Qing emperor. Yuan then drew up his own version and forwarded it to the revolutionaries on 3 February.
- Eiffel Tower
Franz Reichelt died after jumping from the first level of the tower
Just two years later, on 4 February 1912, Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt died after jumping from the first level of the tower (a height of 57 metres) to demonstrate his parachute design.
- Xinhai Revolution
Puyi and Empress Dowager Longyu Accepted Yuan's Terms of Abdication
On 12 February 1912, after being pressured by Yuan and other ministers, Puyi (age six) and Empress Dowager Longyu accepted Yuan's terms of abdication.
- Xinhai Revolution
Yuan Was Inaugurated as The Provisional President of The Republic of China
On 10 March, Yuan was inaugurated in Beijing as the provisional president of the Republic of China.
- Father's Day
Father's Day celebration was held in Vancouver
In 1912, a Father's Day celebration was held in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J.J. Berringer of the Irvington Methodist Church. They mistakenly believed that they had been the first to celebrate such a day. They followed a 1911 suggestion by the Portland Oregonian.
- Plague
Plague infection is first reported in Cuba and Puerto Rico
Plague infection is first reported in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
- Titanic
Sea Trails Began
Titanic's sea trials began at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, 2 April 1912, just two days after her fitting out was finished and eight days before she was due to leave Southampton on her maiden voyage.
- Titanic
The Plan
Titanic was planned to arrive at New York on the morning of 17 April.
- Xinhai Revolution
Making Beijing The Capital of The Republic
On 5 April, the Provisional Senate in Nanjing voted to make Beijing the capital of the Republic and convened in Beijing at the end of the month.
- Titanic
Voyage Began
Titanic's maiden voyage began on Wednesday, 10 April 1912. Following the embarkation of the crew the passengers began arriving at 9:30 a.m., when the London and South Western Railway's boat train from London Waterloo station reached Southampton Terminus railway station on the quayside, alongside Titanic's berth.
- Titanic
Arrived Cork
At 11:30 a.m. on Thursday 11 April, Titanic arrived at Cork Harbour on the south coast of Ireland.
- Titanic
Sinking
At 11:40 p.m. (ship's time) on 14 April, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. At 2:20 a.m., two hours and 40 minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg, her rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater, and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. About 710 people survived the disaster and were conveyed by Carpathia to New York, Titanic's original destination, while at least 1,500 people lost their lives.
- Marcus Garvey
Marcus sailed to England
Marcus then decided to travel to London, the administrative center of the British Empire, in the hope of advancing his informal education. In the spring of 1912, he sailed to England. Renting a room along Borough High Street in South London, he visited the House of Commons, where he was impressed by the politician David Lloyd George.
- Denmark expedition
Denmark Expedition Memorial was designed by Kai Nielsen
The memorial was unveiled in 1912. It was designed by Kai Nielsen in collaboration with Kaare Klint.
- The Wright brothers
Wilbur's Death
Wilbur died, at age 45, at the Wright family home on May 30.
- Francisco Franco
First lieutenant
At 19, Franco was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in June 1912.
- Carter G. Woodson
Woodson completed his PhD in history at Harvard University
Woodson completed his PhD in history at Harvard University in 1912, where he was the second African American (after W. E. B. Du Bois) to earn a doctorate. His doctoral dissertation, The Disruption of Virginia, was based on research he did at the Library of Congress while teaching high school in Washington, D.C. After earning the doctoral degree, he continued teaching in public schools, as no university was willing to hire him, ultimately becoming the principal of the all-black Armstrong Manual Training School in Washington D.C.
Birth
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing (1873 – 1947), was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at Chatrapur, then in the Madras Presidency and presently in Odisha state, in India. Turing's father was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. John Robert Turing, from a Scottish family of merchants that had been based in the Netherlands and included a baronet. Turing's mother, Julius' wife, was Ethel Sara Turing (née Stoney 1881–1976), daughter of Edward Waller Stoney, chief engineer of the Madras Railways. The Stoneys were a Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry family from both County Tipperary and County Longford, while Ethel herself had spent much of her childhood in County Clare.
- Alan Turing
Born
Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912, in Maida Vale, London, England.
- Winston Churchill
Asquith's government introduced the Home Rule Bill
The central issue in Britain at the time was Irish Home Rule and, in 1912, Asquith's government introduced the Home Rule Bill.
- Flag of the United States
48 Stars flag
The flag was changed to have 48 stars. (for New Mexico, Arizona)
- Flag of the United States
Eben Appleton converted the loan to a gift
In 1907 Eben Appleton, New York stockbroker and grandson of Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead (the commander of Fort McHenry during the 1814 bombardment) loaned the Star Spangled Banner Flag to the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1912 he converted the loan to a gift. Appleton donated the flag with the wish that it would always be on view to the public.
- Hirohito
Hirohito became the Heir Apparent
When his grandfather, Emperor Meiji, died on 30 July 1912, Hirohito's father, Yoshihito, assumed the throne, and Hirohito became the heir apparent. At the same time, he was formally commissioned in both the army and navy as a second lieutenant and ensign, respectively, and was also decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum.
- X-ray
X-ray crystallography
In 1912, Max von Laue, Paul Knipping, and Walter Friedrich first observed the diffraction of X-rays by crystals. This discovery, along with the early work of Paul Peter Ewald, William Henry Bragg, and William Lawrence Bragg, gave birth to the field of X-ray crystallography.
- Marcus Garvey
Sister joined him in London
In August 1912, his sister Indiana joined him in London, where she worked as a domestic servant.
- Xinhai Revolution
Forming The Kuomintang
The Kuomintang was formed on 25 August 1912. The KMT held the majority of seats after the election. Song Jiaoren was elected as premier.
- Gustav Stresemann
Losing his seats
Stresemann's support of expanded social-welfare programs did not sit well with some of the party's more conservative members, and he lost his post in the party's executive committee in 1912. Later that year he lost both his Reichstag and town council seats.
- Severo Ochoa
Ocha's father death
His father died when Ochoa was seven, and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended elementary school through high school.
- Mexican Revolution
Founding The anarcho-Syndicalist Casa del Obrero Mundial Founded
The anarcho-syndicalist Casa del Obrero Mundial (House of the World Worker) was founded in September 1912 by Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Manuel Sarabia, and Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara and served as a center of agitation and propaganda, but it was not a formal labor union.
- Josip Broz Tito
Stayed with his older brother Martin and his family
By October 1912 he had arrived in Vienna where he stayed with his older brother Martin and his family and worked at the Griedl Works before getting a job at Wiener Neustadt where he worked for Austro-Daimler, and was often asked to drive and test the cars.
- Charles de Gaulle
De Gaulle rejoined the 33rd Infantry Regiment as a sous-lieutenant
In October 1912 he rejoined the 33rd Infantry Regiment as a sous-lieutenant (second lieutenant). The regiment was now commanded by Colonel (and future Marshal) Philippe Pétain, whom de Gaulle would follow for the next 15 years. He later wrote in his memoirs: "My first colonel, Pétain, taught me the art of command".
- Theodore Roosevelt
Assassination Attempt
On October 14, 1912, while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt was shot by a saloonkeeper named John Flammang Schrank. The bullet lodged in his chest after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech titled "Progressive Cause Greater Than Any Individual", which he was carrying in his jacket.
- Xinhai Revolution
The First National Assembly Election
In December 1912, The First National Assembly Election Took place according To The Provisional Constitution.
- Marie Curie
Returning To Her Laboratory
Curie returned to her laboratory in December, after a break of about 14 months.
- Mother's Day
Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder
In 1912 Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrase "Second Sunday in May, Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, Founder", and created the Mother's Day International Association.
- Benito Mussolini
Mussolini was the editor of "Avanti"
In 1912, he became editor of the newspaper Avanti! to which he gave a violent suggestive and intransigent orientation.
- Louis Armstrong
Arrested
Borrowing his stepfather's gun without permission, he fired a blank into the air and was arrested on December 31, 1912. He spent the night at New Orleans Juvenile Court, then was sentenced the next day to detention at the Colored Waif's Home.