WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1912
Find out what all happened June to December 1912

Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire. (28. November 1912)

First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius. On the same day, Serbian troops captured Skopje. (26. October 1912)

Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.) (3. December 1912)

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City. (25. September 1912)

William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison. (19. December 1912)

First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani. (11. October 1912)

While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. (14. October 1912)

King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after it's liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule. (12. November 1912)

The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California. (28. December 1912)

First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. (8. October 1912)

Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. (8. December 1912)

First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces (21. October 1912)

Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. (8. July 1912)

Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco. (27. November 1912)

The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum. (6. August 1912)

Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland. (28. September 1912)

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War. (17. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo between the Serbian and Ottoman armies begins. (23. October 1912)

First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory. (24. October 1912)

The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa. (10. June 1912)