1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1912, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1912 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1912
MCMXII
Ab urbe condita2665
Armenian calendar1361
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6662
Baháʼí calendar68–69
Balinese saka calendar1833–1834
Bengali calendar1319
Berber calendar2862
British Regnal yearGeo. 5 – 3 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2456
Burmese calendar1274
Byzantine calendar7420–7421
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4609 or 4402
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4610 or 4403
Coptic calendar1628–1629
Discordian calendar3078
Ethiopian calendar1904–1905
Hebrew calendar5672–5673
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1968–1969
 - Shaka Samvat1833–1834
 - Kali Yuga5012–5013
Holocene calendar11912
Igbo calendar912–913
Iranian calendar1290–1291
Islamic calendar1330–1331
Japanese calendarMeiji 45 / Taishō 1
(大正元年)
Javanese calendar1841–1842
Juche calendar1
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4245
Minguo calendarROC 1
民國1年
Nanakshahi calendar444
Thai solar calendar2454–2455
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
2038 or 1657 or 885
    — to —
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
2039 or 1658 or 886

This year is notable for the sinking of the Titanic, which occurred on April 15th.

In Albania, this leap year runs with only 353 days as the country achieved switching from the Julian to Gregorian Calendar by skipping 13 days. Friday, 30 November (Julian Calendar) immediately turned Saturday, 14 December 1912 (in the Gregorian Calendar).

Events

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January

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February

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March

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March 7: Amundsen and the South Pole
 
March 27: Cherry trees for Washington, D.C.

April

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April 15: The RMS Titanic sinks
 
1912 Summer Olympics

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

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1912 date-mark on the apex of a building at Springfield, Birmingham, England.

Births

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January

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Salah al-Din al-Bitar
 
José Ferrer
 
Leonid Kantorovich
 
Konrad Emil Bloch

February

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Roberta McCain
 
Lawrence Durrell

March

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Sir Jack Marshall
 
Pat Nixon
 
Karl Malden
 
James Callaghan

April

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Sonja Henie
 
Kim Il Sung
 
Glenn T. Seaborg
 
Marten Toonder
 
Pedro Armendáriz
 
János Kádár
 
Julius Axelrod

June

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Maria Montez
 
Enoch Powell
 
Alan Turing

July

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August

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Salvador Luria
 
Gene Kelly
 
Erich Honecker
 
Edward Mills Purcell

September

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John Cage
 
Frank Thomas
 
Chuck Jones
 
Martha Scott

October

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Fernando Belaúnde
 
Pope John Paul I
 
Sir Georg Solti
 
Sir Richard Doll
 
Ollie Johnston

November

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Alfredo Stroessner
 
Otto von Habsburg

December

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Pappy Boyington
 
Alfred Lennon
 
Lady Bird Johnson

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January

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Eloy Alfaro
 
Saint Nicholas of Japan
 
Robert Falcon Scott
 
Karl May

February

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March

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April

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Edward Smith
 
Patricio Escobar
 
Bram Stoker
 
Frederik VIII of Denmark
 
Wilbur Wright

June

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July

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Henri Poincaré
 
Emperor Meiji

August

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September

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October

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Susie King Taylor
 
José Canalejas y Méndez

November

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December

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Nobel Prizes

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References

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