First Balkan War breaks out
October 8, 1912
Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece launched a coordinated attack on the decaying Ottoman Empire in Europe, forming the Balkan League. Within weeks Ottoman armies collapsed and centuries of Turkish rule in the Balkans ended. The victors then turned on each other in a second war over the spoils. The region would soon light the fuse that blew up the continent.
In context
Also in 1912 (4 other events on record)
- Titanic sinks on maiden voyage · Europe · Disaster
- Wegener proposes continental drift · Europe · Science
- Paul Ehrlich's magic bullet · Europe · Science
- Fenway Park opens · North America · Culture
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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