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| 1912 |
| | | Lillian and Dorothy Gish make their screen debut with the Biograph Company | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Egon Schiele's highly explicit images of nudes land him briefly in gaol | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew | |
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| 1912 |
| | | The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali | |
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| 1912 |
| | | William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars | |
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| 1912 |
| | | At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader | |
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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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| 1912 |
| | | Electoral reform is introduced in Argentina, with universal male suffrage and a secret ballot | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Tibet declares its independence after the fall of the Qing dynasty and the end of imperial China | |
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| 1912 |
| | | By the treaty of Fès a French protectorate is formally established in Morocco | |
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| 1912 |
| | | President Taft sends US marines into Nicaragua during a period of disorder | |
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| 1912 |
| | | William Howard Taft defeats Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican convention to win the nomination | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Theodore Roosevelt's followers form a rival party to the Republicans, soon to be known as the Bull Moose party | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Tommy Sopwith founds the aviation company that will produce the Pup and the Camel | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Mack Sennett sets up the Keystone studio in California, soon to be famous for the knockabout farce of the Keystone Kops | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Carl Jung breaks with Freud and introduces the concept of the collective unconscious | |
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| 1912 |
| | | France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Arnold Schoenberg sets Pierrot Lunaire for a solo voice, reciting the text to the accompaniment of a quintet | |
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