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1912
 
   
The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house      
1912
 
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The South African National Native Congress (subsequently the ANC, African National Congress) is set up in Cape Province       
c. 1912
 
    
Walter Gropius and other architects in Germany develop the International Modern style       
1912
 
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Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland       
1912
 
    
Memphis Blues is composed by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy       
1912
 
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An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia       
1912
 
  
By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey     
1912
 
     
The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart        
1912
 
    
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners       
1912
 
    
Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself       
1912
 
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Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republicans Taft and Roosevelt to become the 28th president of the USA        
1912
 
   
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans      
1912
 
     
Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash        
1912
 
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A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries       
1912
 
    
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia       
1913
 
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Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles      
1913
 
   
A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern      
1913
 
     
Cecil B. de Mille, Jesse Lasky and Sam Goldwyn join forces to form a film production company        
1913
 
   
The Armory Show (officially the International Exhibition of Modern Art) is a sensation in New York      
1913
 
    
In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier       
1913
 
    
Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage       
1913
 
    
The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane       
1913
 
   
The US navy begins transmitting by radio a regular time signal, much used by the nation's watchmakers and menders.      
1913
 
    
In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier       
1913
 
    
Dinizulu's son Solomon follows his father as king or chief of the Zulu people, and direct descendants of Shaka's brother Mwande continue to inherit until today       
1913
 
    
Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light       
1913
 
     
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb        
1913
 
    
English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, offering evidence that the planet is at least 1.6 billion years old       
1913
 
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The Spanish government grants a degree of administrative autonomy to four provinces of Catalonia      
1913
 
    
The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930       
1913
 
     
Lawrence Bragg and his father, William, together develop X-ray crystallography, based on the diffraction patterns of crystals        
1913
 
   
The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator      
1913
 
    
The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north