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1912
 
     
Lillian and Dorothy Gish make their screen debut with the Biograph Company        
1912
 
   
Egon Schiele's highly explicit images of nudes land him briefly in gaol      
1912
 
   
Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown      
1912
 
    
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir       
1912
 
    
Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism       
1912
 
   
The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew      
Keeping fit on the Titanic, photo 1912
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1912
 
   
The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg      
1912
 
    
Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali       
1912
 
    
William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars       
1912
 
    
At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader