1912
Preceded by
1913
Year
1914
Followed by
January
- 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien's twenty-first birthday.
- 3 - Tolkien contacts Edith Bratt, who subsequently breaks off her engagement with another man.
- 7 - Actor Francis de Wolff is born.
- 8 - Engagement of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt
- 21 - Actor Heron Carvic is born.
- ? - J.R.R. Tolkien begins his diary "JRRT and EMB in account together, AMDG".
February
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien writes a postcard to Edith Bratt.
May
- 16 – Norman Davis is born.
October
- 11 - Actor John Bryning is born.
November
- 19 - Exeter College Smoker, featuring a cover illustration by J.R.R. Tolkien, is printed.
December
- 1 - J.R.R. Tolkien is elected president of Stapledon Society, a student body at Exeter College.
- 16 – In an annual Christmas rugby match at King Edward's School, alumni at Oxford and Cambridge play against the School's First XV. This year, the alumni J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman, T.K. Barnsley, Robert Gilson, G.B. Smith and Sidney Barrowclough lose 14-10.
- ? - First stanza of Valedictory is published in the Stapeldon Magazine.
- ? - "Oxford Letter", J.R.R. Tolkien's report on former King Edward's pupils at Oxford, is published in King Edward's School Chronicle.
?
- ? - Tolkien takes a Second Class in exams and transfers from classics to English, with emphasis in philology, and formally studies Old Norse.
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