Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the German Geological Society, proposing that continents once formed a single landmass before slowly separating.

Robert Falcon Scott's British expedition reached the South Pole, finding Roald Amundsen's Norwegian flag already planted there five weeks earlier.

Negotiations intensified between Qing court officials and republican revolutionaries over the abdication terms that would end over two thousand years of imperial rule in China.

Six-year-old Emperor Pu Yi abdicates the Qing throne days later this month, but on February 7 the imperial court finalizes terms ending 2,000 years of dynastic rule in China.

Word reaches the outside world that Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole by over a month, a crushing blow to British ambitions.

Arizona joined the Union as the 48th state, the last of the contiguous United States to be admitted, completing the continental map.

RMS Titanic, having completed sea trials and its delivery voyage from Belfast, arrives in Southampton, England, to prepare for its maiden voyage.

RMS Titanic departed Southampton, England on her maiden voyage, carrying over 2,200 passengers and crew toward New York.

RMS Titanic called at Cherbourg, France, on the second leg of her maiden voyage, taking on passengers before continuing toward Queenstown and, ultimately, disaster.

The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 PM, tearing open her hull; she sank less than three hours later.

RMS Titanic slipped beneath the North Atlantic two hours and forty minutes after striking an iceberg, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew.

The rescue ship RMS Carpathia docked in New York carrying 705 survivors of the RMS Titanic, which had sunk two days earlier after striking an iceberg.

Newspapers worldwide confirmed the full scale of the Titanic disaster as survivor lists and wireless reports reached shore two days after the sinking.

Thousands of women marched through Boston demanding the vote, part of a growing wave of American suffrage activism.

Alan Turing was born in London, the mathematician whose theoretical 'universal machine' and wartime codebreaking would help define the computer age.

Julia Child, the towering American chef who demystified French cuisine for home cooks and became a beloved television personality, was born in Pasadena, California.

Allied Balkan armies pressed deep into Ottoman territory as the First Balkan War entered a decisive phase, reshaping the map of southeastern Europe.

A search party sets out across Antarctic ice to find Robert Falcon Scott's missing polar expedition, unaware the explorers had already died months earlier.

Ismail Qemali proclaimed Albania's independence from the crumbling Ottoman Empire in the port city of Vlorë.

Geologist Arthur Woodward and amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson unveil 'Piltdown Man' fossils in London, hailed as the missing link — a hoax not exposed for 41 years.

Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward present the Piltdown skull to the Geological Society of London as a genuine human ancestor.