Editing 1912 (section)

=== December ===
{{Main|December 1912}}
*[[December 3]] &ndash; [[Kingdom of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]], and [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]] (the [[Balkan League]], but not [[Kingdom of Greece (Glücksburg)|Greece]]) sign an armistice with the [[Ottoman Empire]] at [[Çatalca]], temporarily halting the [[First Balkan War]] after 2 months. (The armistice will expire on [[February 3]], [[1913]], and hostilities will resume.)<ref>{{cite book|first=John A. S.|last=Grenville|title=The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts|volume=1|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2001|pages=49–50}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] &ndash; [[Piltdown Man]], thought to be the fossilized skull of a hitherto unknown form of early human, is presented to the [[Geological Society of London]] (it is revealed to be a hoax in [[1953]]).
* [[December 24]] &ndash; [[Merck KGaA|Merck]] files [[patent]] applications in Germany for synthesis of the [[entactogen]]ic drug [[MDMA]] (''Ecstasy''), developed by [[Anton Köllisch]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01511.x|author1=Freudenmann, R. W. |author2=Oxler, F. |author3=Bernschneider-Reif, S. |title=The origin of MDMA (ecstasy) revisited: the true story reconstructed from the original documents.|journal=[[Addiction (journal)|Addiction]]|volume=101|issue=9|pages=1241–1245|year=2006|pmid=16911722|url=http://www.mdma.net/merck/ecstasy-mdma.pdf}}</ref>