Editing 1912 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1912}}
* [[January 1]] &ndash; The [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] is established.<ref>{{cite book |title=China, Fiver thousand years of History and Civilization|date=2007|publisher=City University Of Hong Kong Press|page=116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-fAxn_9f8wC&pg=PA116|access-date=9 September 2014|isbn=9789629371401}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; The [[Prague Conference]] (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Service|title=Lenin, a Political Life: Worlds in collision|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=1985|page=19}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] 
** German [[Geophysics|geophysicist]] [[Alfred Wegener]] first presents his theory of [[continental drift]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wegener |first=Alfred |date=1912-07-01 |title=Die Entstehung der Kontinente |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02202896 |journal=Geologische Rundschau |language=de |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=276–292 |doi=10.1007/BF02202896 |bibcode=1912GeoRu...3..276W |s2cid=129316588 |issn=1432-1149}}</ref>
** [[New Mexico]] becomes the 47th [[U.S. state]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History {{!}} History: Statehood|url=http://online.nmartmuseum.org/nmhistory/people-places-and-politics/statehood/history-statehood.html|access-date=July 30, 2020|website=online.nmartmuseum.org}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] &ndash; The [[African National Congress]] is founded as the South African Native National Congress, at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in [[Bloemfontein]], to promote improved rights for [[Black people|black]] South Africans, with [[John Langalibalele Dube]] as its first president.
* [[January 12]] &ndash; In the [[1912 German federal election]] the Social Democrats for the first time becomes the party with the most seats.
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Raymond Poincaré]] forms a coalition government in France, beginning his first term of office as Prime Minister on [[21 January]].
* [[January 17]] &ndash; British polar explorer Captain [[Robert Falcon Scott]] and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the [[South Pole]].
* [[January 18]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]] January 5) &ndash; [[Prague Conference]]: [[Vladimir Lenin]] and the [[Bolshevik]] Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
* [[January 22]] &ndash; The [[Overseas Railroad]] officially opens with [[Henry Flagler]], its owner, arriving on the first train to [[Key West]], Florida, to a cheering crowd of 10,000.
* [[January 23]] &ndash; The [[International Opium Convention]] is signed at [[The Hague]] to restrict exports.