1912
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 1. The Republic of China is established.
- Real World: January 6. New Mexico becomes the 47th state to join the United States.
- Real World: February 8. Members of the Mexican military revolt against Francisco Madero in Mexico City.
- Real World: February 12. The Gregorian Calendar is adopted by the Republic of China.
- Real World: February 14. The first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned in Groton, Connecticut.
- Real World: February 18. Francisco Madero's government is defeated.
- Real World: April 15. The HMS Titanic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Real World: May 13. The Royal Flying Corps established in the United Kingdom.
- Real World: June 4. A fire in Constantinople destroys over 1100 buildings.
- Real World: July 19. A meteorite explodes over Holbrook, Arizona, showering the town with fragments.
- Real World: July 30. Emperor Mutsuhito of Japan dies, and is succeded by Yoshihito; end of the Meiji Period, beginning of the Taisho Period.
- Real World: August 25. The Kuomintang established in China.
- Real World: October 8. The First Balkan War begins.
- Real World: October 14. Theodore Roosevelt, running for President of the United States as part of the Progressive Party, survives an assassination attempt during a speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and despite his wound, finishes giving his speech).
- Real World: October 16. Airplanes are first used for bombing by Bulgarian pilots against Turkey.
- Real World: November. "Piltdown Man," revealed decades later as a hoax, is unveiled in Britain.
- Real World: November 5. Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States.
- Future History, World-as-Myth: November 11. Woodrow Wilson Smith, later Lazarus Long, is born. (To Sail Beyond The Sunset)
- Real World: December 3. The First Balkan War is paused by an armistice between Turkey and its opponents.
Undated Events
- Real World: The theory of continental drift is proposed by Alfred Wegener.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Notable Films
The Count of Monte Cristo, Oliver Twist.
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