1912 in Ecuador

Events in the year 1912 in Ecuador.

Incumbents

 * President: Carlos Freile Zaldumbide until March 6, Francisco Andrade Marín until August 10, Alfredo Baquerizo until September 1, Leónidas Plaza

Events

 * January 4 - former President Eloy Alfaro returned to Ecuador and attempted another coup but was defeated, arrested and jailed by General and former President Leonidas Plaza.
 * January 28 - a group of pro-Catholic soldiers supported by a mob, broke into the prison where Alfaro and his colleagues were detained and dragged them along the cobbled streets of the city center. This sparks the Concha Revolution.
 * Ecuadorian presidential election, 1912

Deaths

 * January 28 - Eloy Alfaro, former President