Belligerents: Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Bulgaria, Kingdom of Greece, Kingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Romania, Kingdom of Montenegro
Key battles
Battle of Kumanovo (1912)
Battle of Monastir (1912)
Battle of Adrianople (1912)
Siege of Scutari (1912)
Battle of Lule Burgas (1912)
Battle of Kirk Kilisse (1912)
First Battle of Çatalca (1912)
Battle of Sarantaporo (1912)
Battle of Prilep (1912)
Battle of Yenidje (1912)
Battle of Elli (1912)
Battle of Lemnos (1913)
Battle of Bizani (1913)
Battle of Bregalnica (1913)
Who lived through the Balkan Wars
Well-known people alive during 1912–1913:
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) — dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) — German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) — founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) — leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) — Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) — English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) — British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) — founding father of the Republic of Turkey (c. 1881–1938)
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) — American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) — Spanish artist (1904–1989)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) — president of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1882–1945)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Marie Curie (1867–1934) — Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) — 1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) — French general and statesman (1890–1970)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) — Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Walt Disney (1901–1966) — American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company (1901–1966)
George Orwell (1903–1950) — British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — American author and journalist (1899–1961)
James Joyce (1882–1941) — Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) — English writer and philologist (1892–1973)