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October 19, 1912
On October 19, 1912, italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
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Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured coastal areas of the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which would later merge into Italian Libya.
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1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1912th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 912th year of the 2nd millennium, the 12th year of the 20th…
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On October 19, 1912
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1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire. 1911–1912 war in Libya and the Aegean Sea
The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured coastal areas of the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the colonies of Italian Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, which would later merge into Italian Libya.
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- April 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.
- April 14 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
- April 15 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
- April 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- April 17 Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
- April 18 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
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