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| 1912 |
| | | Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Charles Dawson claims to have found the fossilized skull of an early man (named in his honour Eoanthropus dawsoni in a gravel pit at Piltdown | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy | |
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| 1912 |
| | | German scientist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the neat fit between the coasts of Africa and South America, proposes the theory of continental drift | |
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| 1912 |
| | | President Taft sends US marines to Cuba because of political unrest in the island | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The Social Democrats become the largest group in Germany's Reichstag | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark | |
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