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| 1912 |
| | The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house | |
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| 1912 |
| | The South African National Native Congress (subsequently the ANC, African National Congress) is set up in Cape Province | |
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| c. 1912 |
| | Walter Gropius and other architects in Germany develop the International Modern style | |
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| 1912 |
| | Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland | |
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| 1912 |
| | Memphis Blues is composed by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy | |
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| 1912 |
| | An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia | |
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| 1912 |
| | By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey | |
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| 1912 |
| | The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart | |
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| 1912 |
| | Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners | |
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| 1912 |
| | Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself | |
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| 1912 |
| | Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Republicans Taft and Roosevelt to become the 28th president of the USA | |
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| 1912 |
| | An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans | |
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| 1912 |
| | Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash | |
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| 1912 |
| | A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries | |
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| 1912 |
| | Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia | |
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| 1913 |
| | Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles | |
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| 1913 |
| | A new and spectacular Grand Central Station opens in New York, designed by Charles Reed and Alan Stern | |
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| 1913 |
| | Cecil B. de Mille, Jesse Lasky and Sam Goldwyn join forces to form a film production company | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Armory Show (officially the International Exhibition of Modern Art) is a sensation in New York | |
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| 1913 |
| | In O Pioneers Willa Cather finds her major theme, life on the frontier | |
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| 1913 |
| | Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1913 |
| | The US navy begins transmitting by radio a regular time signal, much used by the nation's watchmakers and menders. | |
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| 1913 |
| | In Pollyanna Eleanor Porter introduces an immensely successful character, the irrepressibly optimistic orphan Pollyanna Whittier | |
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| 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 | |
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| 1913 |
| | Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light | |
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| 1913 |
| | The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb | |
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| 1913 |
| | English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, offering evidence that the planet is at least 1.6 billion years old | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Spanish government grants a degree of administrative autonomy to four provinces of Catalonia | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930 | |
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| 1913 |
| | Lawrence Bragg and his father, William, together develop X-ray crystallography, based on the diffraction patterns of crystals | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north | |
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