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1912
Summary
This year is notable for the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912.
January 1912
January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
January 6
German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
New Mexico become the 47th U.S. State.
January 8 – The African National Congress is founded as the South African Native National Congress, at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein, to promote improved rights for black South Africans, with John Langalibalele Dube as its first president.
January 14 – Raymond Poincaré forms a coalition government in France, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on 21 January.
January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.
January 18 (Old Style January 5) – Prague Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
January 22 – The Overseas Railroad officially opens with Henry Flagler, its owner, arriving on the first train to Key West, Florida, to a cheering crowd of 10,000.
January 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague to restrict exports.
February 1912
February 12 – The Manchu Qing dynasty of China comes to an end after 268 years with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor Puyi in favour of the Republic of China.
February 24 – Battle of Beirut: Italy makes a surprise attack on the Ottoman port of Beirut, when the cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and the gunboat Volturno bombard the harbour, killing 97 sailors and civilians.
February 29 – Serbia and Bulgaria secretly sign a treaty of alliance for a term of eight years, with each pledging to come to the defense of the other during war.
March 1912
March 1 – Albert Berry is reported to have made the first parachute jump from a flying airplane.
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