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- Oct 18 The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Tripolitan War between Turkey and Italy
- Oct 18 The First Balkan War breaks out, with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece opposed to Turkey
- Oct 19 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
- Oct 20 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
- Oct 20 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
- Oct 26 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
- Oct 26 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
- Nov 5 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
- Nov 5 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
Election of Interest
Nov 5 Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Music Concert
Nov 7 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Nov 9 Ferenc Molnàr's "Farkas" premieres in Budapest
Event of Interest
Nov 12 British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica
Robert Scott
- Nov 18 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
- Nov 23 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
- Nov 24 Conflict in the Balkans grows into an acute international crisis with major powers supporting either Austria or Serbia
- Nov 25 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
- Nov 25 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
- Nov 27 Albanian National Flag adopted
- Nov 27 Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
- Nov 28 Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from Turkey in Vlorë
- Nov 30 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
- Nov 30 11th Davis Cup: British Isles beats Australasia in Melbourne (3-2)
- Dec 3 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
- Dec 3 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
- Dec 3 First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
- Dec 5 The Triple Alliance among Italy, Austria, and Germany (originally signed in 1882) is renewed for six years, beginning in 1914, a move inspired by instability in the Balkans
- Dec 6 China votes for universal human rights
- Dec 7 Bust of Queen Nefertiti found in El-Amarna, Egypt
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Wilhelm II of Germany calls 'War Council'
Wilhelm II
- Dec 12 Rudolf Friml and Otto Harbach's musical "Firefly" premieres in New York City
- Dec 16 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
- Dec 16 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
- Dec 16 First Balkan War: The Ottoman Navy is defeated by the Royal Hellenic Navy at the Battle of Eli
- Dec 17 Albania's de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire is recognized at the London Conference of Ambassadors
- Dec 18 Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
- Dec 20 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in NYC
- Dec 20 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie" premieres in Paris
- Dec 21 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
- Dec 23 1st "Keystone Kops" film, entitled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
- Dec 23 Aswan Low Dam in Nile begins operation
- Dec 23 In Delhi, India, terrorist agitation continues as British Viceroy Lord Hardinge is wounded by a bomb explosion
- Dec 24 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
- Dec 28 National Council of Young Israel convenes
- Dec 28 1st municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California as SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)