1912

From top to bottom, left to right: The Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage, killing over 1,500 people and becoming one of history’s deadliest maritime disasters; the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden introduces electronic timing and public address systems; the First Balkan War sees the Balkan League of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro push the Ottoman Empire out of Europe; the Lena massacre in the Russian Empire kills hundreds of striking gold miners, fueling revolutionary anger; the death of Emperor Meiji ends the Meiji era in the Japanese Empire and begins the Taishō period; and the Novarupta eruption in the U.S. Territory of Alaska becomes the century’s most powerful volcanic event.
1912 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1912
MCMXII
Ab urbe condita2665
Armenian calendar1361
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԱ
Assyrian calendar6662
Baháʼí calendar68–69
Balinese saka calendar1833–1834
Bengali calendar1318–1319
Berber calendar2862
British Regnal year2 Geo. 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 calendarལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་
(female Iron-Boar)
2038 or 1657 or 885
    — to —
ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་
(male Water-Rat)
2039 or 1658 or 886
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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.

This year is notable for the sinking of the Titanic, which occurred on April 15 and the outbreak of the First Balkan War in October.

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).

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