On this day: 12 October
Events, births and deaths on 12 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Saleh al-Jafarawi
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Edwin Abbott Abbott
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 974 · Deaths · Al-Muti
- 1008 · Births · Go-Ichijō
- 1095 · Deaths · Leopold II
Events · 24
- 633Battle of Hatfield Chase — 633 battle
- 1398(Julian date)Treaty of Salynas — 1398 treaty between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights
- 1748Battle of Havana — 1748 naval battle between British and Spanish squadrons in the War of Jenkins' Ear
- 1798Peasants' War — 1798 revolt during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1849Manizales — capital of the Colombian department of Caldas
- 18561856 Heraklion earthquake — earthquake in the Aegean Sea which caused widespread destruction in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe
- 1917First Battle of Passchendaele — battle in World War I (31 July 1917 – 6 November 1917)
- 1929Battle of Lahasusu — 1929 battle
- 1960shoe-banging incident — claimed October 1960 incident where Nikita Khrushchev was said to have banged his shoe into the desk in the United Nations General Assembly
- 1960assassination of Inejiro Asanuma — 1960 assassination in Japan
- 1967Cyprus Airways Flight 284 — 1967 airliner bombing
- 1968Equatorial Guinea — sovereign state in Central Africa
- 19681968 Summer Olympics — Games of the XIX Olympiad, in Mexico City, Mexico
- 19712,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire — National event during Pahlavi Dynasty in 1971
- 1976Indian Airlines Flight 171 — 1976 aviation accident at Bombay Airport
- 1984Brighton hotel bombing — 1984 Margaret Thatcher murder attempt
- 19921992 Cairo earthquake — magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Egypt
- 1994Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 — 1994 aviation accident
- 19961996 New Zealand general election — Election on 12 October 1996
- 19991999 Pakistani coup d'état — Military takeover of the government of Pakistan
- 2000USS Cole bombing — Al-Qaeda bombing of USS Cole
- 20022002 Bali bombings — terrorist attack in Indonesia
- 2019INEOS 1:59 Challenge — project seeking a person to run a marathon in under two hours
- 20222022 Bratislava shooting — mass shooting in Bratislava, Slovakia
Births · 60
- 1008(Julian date)Go-Ichijō — Emperor of Japan
- 1350(Julian date)Dmitry Donskoy — Prince of Moscow
- 1537(Julian date)Edward VI of England — king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553
- 1558(Julian date)Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria — Austrian archduke (1558-1618)
- 1614
- 1687Sylvius Leopold Weiss — German composer and lutenist
- 1798Pedro I of Brazil — Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826 (1798-1834)
- 1840Helena Modjeska — Polish-American actress (1840–1909)
- 1855Arthur Nikisch — Hungarian conductor (1855-1922)
- 1864Kamini Roy — British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist and feminist writer
- 1865Arthur Harden — British biochemist
- 1866Ramsay MacDonald — British prime minister in 1924 and 1929 to 1935 (1866–1937)
- 1868August Horch — German automobile engineer (1868–1951)
- 1872Ralph Vaughan Williams — English composer (1872-1958)
- 1875Aleister Crowley — English occultist (1875–1947)
- 1880Louis Hémon — French writer (1880–1913)
- 1891Edith Stein — Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
- 1891Fumimaro Konoe — politician and former Prime Minister of Japan (1891–1945)
- 1894Princess Elisabeth of Romania — Romanian Royal; Queen Consort of Greece (1922 - 1924)
- 1896Eugenio Montale — Italian poet (1896-1981)
- 1904Ding Ling — Chinese writer (1904-1986)
- 1906Piero Taruffi — Italian racing driver
- 1917Roque Máspoli — Uruguayan footballer (1917-2004)
- 1921Art Clokey — American animator (1921-2010)
- 1921Jaroslav Drobný — Czech tennis and ice hockey player (1921–2001)
Deaths · 60
- 322 BCE(Julian date)Demosthenes — classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
- 638(Julian date)Honorius I — pope
- 974(Julian date)Al-Muti — Abbasid caliph
- 1095(Julian date)Leopold II — Margrave of Austria
- 1320(Julian date)Michael IX Palaiologos — Byzantine co-emperor
- 1492(Julian date)Piero della Francesca — Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)
- 1576Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor — King of the Romans, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1527-1576)
- 1590Kanō Eitoku — Japanese artist (1543-1590)
- 1600Luis de Molina — Spanish priest and writer
- 1654Carel Fabritius — painter from the Northern Netherlands (1622–1654)
- 1730Frederik IV of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway (1699–1730)
- 1845Elizabeth Fry — social reformer from England (1780-1845)
- 1858Utagawa Hiroshige — Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)
- 1870Robert E. Lee — Confederate States general (1807–1870)
- 1875Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux — French sculptor and painter (1827–1875)
- 1896Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs — Danish politician (1817-1896)
- 1914Margaret E. Knight — American inventor (1838–1914)
- 1915Edith Cavell — British nurse (1865-1915)
- 1924Anatole France — French writer (1844–1924)
- 1926Edwin Abbott Abbott — British theologian and author (1838-1926)
- 1940Tom Mix — American film actor (1880-1940)
- 1946Joseph Stilwell — United States Army general (1883–1946)
- 1956Lorenzo Perosi — Italian composer (1872–1956)
- 1957Arie de Jong — volapükist from the Netherlands (1865-1957)
- 1960Inejirō Asanuma — Japanese politician (1898–1980)
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