On This Day: November 12th

First Balkan War: King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.

The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.

Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj.

Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Construction is completed on the Wilberforce Monument in Kingston Upon Hull.

Plymouth becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.

Battle of Posada ends: Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army by ambush.

Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.

The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom.