* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.

* 1912 – The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a " spiral nebula " ( spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies ), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal.

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations was first presented by Alfred Wegener to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

For the first time since 1912, the territory has direct representation.

The first multilateral competition at international level was the 1912 Triangular Tournament, a Test cricket tournament played in England between all three Test-playing nations at the time: England, Australia and South Africa.

In 1912, William Mestrezat gave the first accurate description of the chemical composition of the CSF.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

* 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.

* 1912: The Danish built the first ocean-going ship exclusively powered by a diesel engine, MS Selandia.

His first American exhibit was in 1912 in New York.

In the 1922 season, back at Essendon at last, they reached the final four for the first time since 1912, finishing in third place.

However, this was an exceptional case, and it is not until 1912 that there were the first signs of the special expressive use of Insert Shots ; that is, shots of objects rather than people.

* 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

* 1912 – Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, strengthened Bulgaria's position as a regional military power, significantly reduced Ottoman influence over the Balkans, and resulted in the formation of an independent Albanian state.

However, other sources suggest that the only time the entire lake froze over in the 20th century was in 1912.

With Chance acting as player-manager from 1905 to 1912, the Cubs won four pennants and two World Series titles over a five-year span.

Starting in 1912, Satie's new humorous miniatures for piano became very successful, and he wrote and published many of these over the next few years ( most of them premiered by the pianist Ricardo Viñes ).

The club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne respectively.

This confirmed French control over Morocco, which became a full protectorate of that country in 1912.

The 1912 elections were won by Manuel Bonilla, but he died after just over a year in office.

By 1912, 16 % of peasants ( up from 11 % in 1903 ) had relatively large endowments of over per male family member ( a threshold used in statistics to distinguish between middle-class and prosperous farmers, i. e., kulaks ).

The Xinhai Revolution over, Mao resigned from the army in 1912, after six months of being a soldier.

* 1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.

The Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ), however, much favored Confucian classics over Taoist works.

The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920.

The IWW was involved in over 150 strikes, including the Lawrence textile strike ( 1912 ), the Paterson silk strike ( 1913 ) and the Mesabi range ( 1916 ).

In a classic set of experiments, the Englishman Osborne Reynolds ( 1842 – 1912 ) of the University of Manchester demonstrated that the airflow pattern over a scale model would be the same for the full-scale vehicle if a certain flow parameter were the same in both cases.

Although the Whigs at first formed the most important part of the coalition, the Whiggish elements of the new party progressively lost influence during the long leadership of the Peelite William Ewart Gladstone, and many of the old Whig aristocrats broke from the party over the issue of Irish home rule in 1886 to help form the Liberal Unionist Party — which itself would merge with the Conservative Party by 1912.

In 1644, after the Ming Dynasty's capital of Beijing was sacked by the peasant rebels, the Jurchens ( now called Manchus ) allied with Ming general Wu Sangui and seized control of Beijing, overthrowing the short-lived Shun Dynasty and establishing Qing Dynasty rule ( 1644 – 1912 ) over all of China.

The original format, used in the 1912 Olympics, was spread over several days:

In 1912 much of the water coming over the American Falls froze, though there was still a trickle and the falls ran at the other two sites.

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor proposed that New Mexico immediately become a state to sidestep political conflict over slavery in the territories, but it did not become a state until January 1912.

Carlisle's 1912 record included a 27 – 6 victory over Army.

These conflicts included a customs dispute with Austria-Hungary beginning in 1906 ( commonly referred to as the " Pig War "), the Bosnian crisis of 1908 – 1909 in which Serbia assumed an attitude of protest over Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( ending in Serbian acquiescence without compensation in March 1909 ), and finally the two Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913 in which Serbia conquered Macedonia and Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire.

Mabel attributed the end of their friendship to an exchange in the autumn of 1912 when, during lunch, Gertrude sent her " such a good strong look over the table that it seemed to cut across the air to me in a band of electrified steel — a smile traveling across on it — powerful — Heavens !".

Radio Act of 1912, which had given regulatory powers over

Taipei, on the other hand, considers " one China " to mean the Republic of China ( ROC ), founded in 1912 and with de jure sovereignty over all of China.

Another explanation is concerned with anti-competitive behavior between film distributors and cinemas, which in 1912 saw Australasian Films and Union Theaters establish control over the production, distribution and exhibition of films in Australia, and thereby requiring smaller producers to deal with the cartel.