1912
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Events in Poland
January 20 - St. Zofia in Warsaw.
March 3 - Bishop of Kraków Adam Stefan Sapieha took an ingres to the Wawel Cathedral.
March 7 - the trial of the former Jasna Góra monk, Damazy Macocha, accused of murder and the repeated theft of votive offerings from the altar with a miraculous painting ended. The stepmother was sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.
March 11 - the power plant in Nowy Sącz was launched.
March 12 - a congress of the Polish Culture Society took place in Warsaw.
March 31 - the first match was played at the Cracovia stadium.
April 16 - a German secondary school for boys (currently Karol Miarka General Secondary School no. 1) was opened in Żory.
April 27 - premiere of the film Wojewoda.
May 4 - 24 people died in a train crash near the village of Marianka (Lubuskie Voivodeship) and 16 were injured.
May 11 - liquidation of the Warsaw Aviation Society "Awiata", operating at the Mokotów airport. The tsarist military authorities took over hangars, an aircraft factory and a pilot school.
May 20 - St. Alexander Nevsky in Warsaw.
May 22 - Bolesław Prus was buried in Powązki.
June 1 - French Hotel was opened in Krakow.
June 8 - The Siennicki Bridge in Gdańsk was opened.
June 9 - Zdzisław Latawiec (Pogoń Lwów) set 3 track and field records in Galicia in running competitions: 800 m - 2: 06.0 s; 1500 m - 4: 16.9 sec.; 3000 m - 9: 17.7 sec.
June 12 - qualifying for the Austrian national team at the Olympic Games in Stockholm: 2 Austrian records were set by Poles (110 m, Tadeusz Garczyński, 16.2 seconds; 400 m, Władysław Ponurski, 53.5 seconds).
June 15 - Warta Poznań, the oldest football club in Poznań, was established.
June 22 - Włodzimierz Lenin came to Krakow from Paris.
On July 6 - despite numerous protests by Poles, Nicholas II approved the exclusion of the Chełm region from the Kingdom of Poland, the Chełm province was established.
August 25 - The Polish Military Treasury was established in Zakopane.
October 7 - The Orphanage was opened by Janusz Korczak.
October 10 - Inowrocław: tram communication was launched.
October 13 - in Lviv, records of Galicia were set by:
Władysław Ponurski in the 200 m run with a result of 22.8 seconds.
Kazimierz Cybulski in a pole vault with a result of 3.21 m.
November 10 - the Provisional Committee of the Confederated Independence Parties was established in Galicia.
November 16 - the dam in Pilchowice on the Bóbr River was put into operation.
December 22 - the oldest in Upper Silesia Kino Roma (as Kino Lichtspielhaus) was opened in Zabrze.
In a specially erected building at ul. st. Gertrudy 5, the first modern cinema in Krakow, "Wanda", was opened.
The Czyżyny airport in Krakow was established on the current balloon take-off site.
Fr. Kazimierz Lutosławski designed the Scout's Cross.
Hm. Władysław Olędzki founded a scouting movement in Ursynów (the 1st Ursynów Scout Team named after J. U. Niemcewicz).
Biochemist Kazimierz Funk isolated the first vitamin - thiamine, and marked it with the symbol B because it treated the beriberi disease.
A running track at the ŁKS Łódź stadium (S. Falkowski, 100 m - 11.2 s) was put into operation.
In January, the first and in October the last issue of the monthly entitled "Przyrodniczy Pogłos na Świat i Życie" was published.
World events
1 January - The Republic of China was proclaimed in Nanjing.
January 4 - The "Scouting Association" organization in the Commonwealth of Nations was officially registered (Royal Charter).
January 6:
New Mexico joined the United States as the 47th state.
Alfred Wegener presented his theory on the migration of continents.
January 7 - Italo-Turkish War: victory of the Italian fleet in the Battle of Kunfuza Bay.
January 8 - the left-wing African National Congress party in the Republi was founded
