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2012 ( Roman numerals|MMXII ) is a leap year starting on Sunday|leap year that started on a Sunday in the Gregorian calendar , and it is the current year. It is the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century , and the 3rd of the 2010s .

There are a variety of popular 2012 phenomenon|beliefs about the year 2012 . These beliefs range from the Spiritual transformation|spiritually transformative to the apocalypse|apocalyptic , and center upon various contemporary interpretations of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar . Scientists have disputed the apocalyptic versions. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html "2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End? ". NASA .

Events


January


  • January 20 & ndash; January 28 & ndash; A series of co-ordinated January 2012 Nigeria attacks|bombing attacks in Kano , Nigeria , results in 185 deaths. The attacks are blamed on the radical Islamism|Islamist group Boko Haram ,cite web|author=David Batty and Monica Mark in Lagos |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/21/nigeria-attacks-claimed-by-boko-haram |title='& #39;The |publisher=Guardian |date= |accessdate=2012-05-06 11 members of which are killed in a shootout in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri .cite web|url= http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5itcdd2cpwa4egMdV51x41kJ9fzUA? docId=CNG.3130692da5b8a605890904cff0c6413b.e21 |title=AFP: Nigerian troops 'kill 11 Islamists' in northeast |publisher=Google.com |date=2012-01-28 |accessdate=2012-02-08

  • January 23 & ndash; The European Union formally adopts an Iran–European Union relations|embargo against Iran in protest of that nation's continued effort to enrich uranium .cite web|author=Jonathan Marcus |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16674660 |title='& #39;BBC News'& #39; |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=2012-01-23 |accessdate=2012-05-06


    • February


  • February 6 & ndash; The Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom , Canada , Australia and New Zealand , and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth .cite web|url= http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1296669421850/1296669769856|title=Official Canadian website for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II|author=The Government of Canada|date=January 23, 2012|accessdate=January 23, 2012cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16896731 | title=Diamond Jubilee: Queen celebrating 60-year reign | publisher=bbc.co.uk | work=BBC News UK | date=6 February 2012 | accessdate=6 February 2012

  • February 15 & ndash; A Comayagua prison fire|fire at a prison in Comayagua , Honduras kills 360.cite web | url = http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16170448 | publisher= Sky News | title = Honduras Prison Fire Kills Hundreds Of Inmates| accessdate = February 15, 2012 |date = February 15, 2012

  • February 19 & ndash; Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States of America|United States in January.cite web | url= http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/19/world/meast/iran-oil-exports/index.html? hpt=wo_c2 | title=Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France | publisher=cnn.com | work=CNN News | date=19 February 2012 | accessdate=19 February 2012 | author=CNN Wire Staff

  • February 21 & ndash; Greek government debt crisis : Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greece|Greek bailout .cite web | url= http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/euro-zone-strikes-deal-on-greece-bailout-20120221-1tkxm.html | title=Euro zone strikes deal on Greece bailout | publisher=www.smh.com.au | work=Reuters | date=21 February 2012 | accessdate=25 February 2012

  • February 25 & ndash; Arab Spring : As a result of ongoing 2011–2012 Yemeni uprising|protests , Yemen i president Ali Abdullah Saleh is succeeded by his vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi .cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17169216 | title=Obama hails 'new beginning' for Yemen | publisher=bbc.co.uk | work=BBC News | date=25 February 2012 | accessdate=26 February 2012


    • March


  • March 4 & ndash; A 2012 Brazzaville arms dump blasts|series of explosions are reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville , the capital of the Republic of the Congo , with at least 250 people dead.cite web|url= http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/03/04/congo-explosions-idINDEE82304620120304 |title=Reuters |publisher=In.reuters.com |date=2012-03-04 |accessdate=2012-05-06cite web|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17249480 |title=BBC |publisher=BBC |date=2012-03-04 |accessdate=2012-05-06

  • March 13 & ndash; After 244 years since its first publication, the Encyclopćdia Britannica discontinues its print edition.cite news |author=McCarthy, Tom |date=2012-03-13 |title=Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/13/encyclopedia-britannica-halts-print-publication? newsfeed=true |work=The Guardian |accessdate=2012-03-14

  • March 22 & ndash; The List of heads of state of Mali|President of Mali , Amadou Toumani Touré , is ousted in a 2012 Malian coup d'état| coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attacked government offices.cite news |url= http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/world/africa/mali-coup-france-calls-for-elections.html |title=Soldiers Declare Coup in Mali |author=Adam Nossiter |date=22 March 2012 |work= The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Company |accessdate=22 March 2012


    • April


  • April 6 & ndash; The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali .cite news|url= http://www.france24.com/en/20120406-france-24-exclusive-tuareg-rebels-declare-independence-mlna-mali-ansar-dine-azawad|title=Tuareg rebels declare independence in north Mali|publisher=France 24|date=2012-04-06|accessdate=2012-04-06

  • April 12 & ndash; Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état|coup d'état and take control of the Bissau|capital and arrest the interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior , in the midst of a Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2012|upcoming presidential election .cite web|url= http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGdGd-oKyai6M1KEUxMzkKCkPAfQ? docId=8ed769267a0140e4974585dc57dcc99a |title=The Associated Press: Military: Guinea-Bissau prime minister arrested |publisher=Google.com |date=2012-04-13 |accessdate=2012-05-06

  • April 13 & ndash; Kwangmyongsong-3 , a North Korean Earth observation satellite , explodes shortly after launch. The international community later condemns the failed launch. The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung , the founder of the republic.cite web|last=Sang-hun|first=Choe|title=North Korea Says It Will Launch Satellite Into Orbit|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/world/asia/north-korea-satellite-launch-missile-test.html|publisher= The New York Times!Nytimes.com |accessdate=March 16, 2012|date=March 16, 2012

  • April 26 & ndash; Former Liberian President Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)|Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War .citation needed|date=May 2012

  • April 29 & ndash; International Chemical Weapons Convention deadline for chemical weapon stockpiles comes into effect.citation needed|date=May 2012


    • May


  • May 2 & ndash; A version of The Scream by Edvard Munch done in pastel, sells for a record US$120 million in an auction in New York City, setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.cite news|last=|first=|title=Edvard Munch's iconic artwork The Scream sold for $120m|url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17926519|accessdate=3 May 2012|date=3 May 2012|agency=BBCcite news|last=Michaud|first=Chris|title="The Scream" sells for record $120 million at auction|url= http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/entertainment-us-thescream-auction-idUSBRE84200M20120503|accessdate=3 May 2012|date=3 May 2012|agency=Reuters


    • Predicted and scheduled events




    May


  • May 12 – August 12 & ndash; The Expo 2012|2012 World Expo is to be held in Yeosu , South Korea .cite web|url= http://eng.expo2012.or.kr/eng/main.asp|title=2012 World Expo (English)|accessdate=January 23, 2012


    • June


  • June 6 & ndash; The 21st century|century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.cite web|url= http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html|title=NASA Transit of Venus|author= NASA |accessdate=January 23, 2012


    • July


  • July 27 – August 12 & ndash; 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in London .cite web|url= http://www.london2012.com/|title=London 2012|accessdate=January 23, 2012


    • August


  • August 6 – August 20|20 & ndash; Mars Science Laboratory , also known as the Curiosity rover, is scheduled to land on Mars .cite web|url= http://www.space.com/13501-nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-atlas5-rocket.html |title=NASA's Next Mars Rover Hoisted Atop Rocket |publisher=Space.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-04


    • December


  • December 21 & ndash; The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar , notably used by the pre-Columbian Mayan civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen '' baktun|b'ak'tuns '' (periods of 144,000 days each) since the myth ical Mesoamerican creation myths|creation date of the calendar's current era.Susan Milbrath, Curator of Latin American Art and Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History, quoted in http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm USA Today , Wednesday, March 28, 2007, p. 11D http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/062508_maya.cfm "The Sky Is Not Falling" New Wave , Tulane University, June 25, 2008.

  • December 31 & ndash; The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.cite journal

    • |year=2001|author=Grubb, M. and J. Depledge|title=The Seven Myths of Kyoto|url= http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/rstaff/grubb/publications/JR09.pdf|format=PDF|journal=Climate Policy
    |volume=1|issue=2|page=169|accessdate=18 April 2011

    Date unknown


  • People's Republic of China|China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft.

  • Pleiades (supercomputer)|Pleiades , a proposed supercomputer built by Intel Corporation|Intel and Silicon Graphics, Inc.|SGI for NASA 's Ames Research Center , will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 10 FLOPS|Petaflops (10 quadrillion floating point operations per second).cite web|url= http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/Releases/2008/05-07-08.html |title=NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer |publisher=Nas.nasa.gov |date= |accessdate=2010-06-02| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20100528021808/ http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/Releases/2008/05-07-08.html| archivedate= 28 May 2010 | deadurl= no

  • IBM Sequoia|Sequoia , a proposed super computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 20 FLOPS|Petaflops .cite web|last=Gonsalves |first=Antone |url= http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=213000842& subSection=News |title=IBM Tapped For 20-Petaflop Government Supercomputer |publisher=Informationweek.com |date= |accessdate=2010-06-02

  • On the Sun , the solar maximum of Solar Cycle 24 in the 11-year sunspot cycle is forecast to occur. Solar Cycle 24 is regarded to have commenced January 2008, and on average will reach its peak of maximal sunspot activity around 2012.

  • The Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway across the Caucasus is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2012. National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic , August 2010, page 62.


    • Deaths


    Main|Deaths in 2012See|:Category:2012 deaths

    January


  • January 1 & ndash; Kiro Gligorov , 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917 )

  • January 3 & ndash; Josef Škvorecký , Czech writer (b. 1924 )

  • January 9 & ndash; Malam Bacai Sanhá , 6th and 12th President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947 )

  • January 13 & ndash; Rauf Denktas , Cypriot-born politician (b. 1924 )

  • January 15 & ndash; Manuel Fraga Iribarne , Spanish politician (b. 1922 )

  • January 20

  • * Etta James , American singer (b. 1938 )

  • * Jirí Raška , Czech ski jumper (b. 1941 )


  • January 24 & ndash; Theodoros Angelopoulos , Greek filmmaker (b. 1935 )

  • January 29 & ndash; Oscar Luigi Scalfaro , 9th President of Italy (b. 1918 )


    • February



  • February 1 & ndash; Wislawa Szymborska , Polish poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923 )

  • February 3

  • * Ben Gazzara , American actor (b. 1930 )

  • * Samuel Youd , British author (b. 1922 )

  • February 11 & ndash; Whitney Houston , American singer and actress (b. 1963 )

  • February 19 & ndash; Renato Dulbecco , Italian-born American Nobel virologist (b. 1914 )

  • February 29 & ndash; Davy Jones (musician)|Davy Jones , British singer and actor (b. 1945 )


    • March


  • March 6 & ndash; Francisco Xavier do Amaral , 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937 )

  • March 7 & ndash; Wlodzimierz Smolarek , Polish Footballer (b. 1957 )

  • March 10

  • * Jean Giraud , French comics artist (b. 1938 )

  • * Frank Sherwood Rowland , American Nobel chemist (b. 1927 )

  • March 14 & ndash; Censu Tabone , 4th President of Malta (b. 1913 )

  • March 17

  • * John Demjanjuk , Ukrainian-American Nazi war crimes defendant (b. 1920 )

  • * Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (b. 1923 )

  • March 18 & ndash; George Tupou V , King of Tonga (b. 1948 )

  • March 21 & ndash; Tonino Guerra , Italian screenwriter (b. 1920 )

  • March 23

  • * Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed , Somali President (b. 1934 )

  • * Naji Talib , 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917 )

  • March 27 & ndash; Adrienne Rich , American writer (b. 1929 )

  • March 28

  • * Alexander Arutiunian , Armenian composer (b. 1920 )

  • * Earl Scruggs , American bluegrass musician (b. 1924 )


    • April


  • April 1

  • * Miguel de la Madrid , 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934 )

  • * Giorgio Chinaglia , Italian Footballer (b. 1947 )

  • April 5 & ndash; Bingu wa Mutharika , 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934 )

  • April 7 & ndash; Mike Wallace (journalist)|Mike Wallace , American journalist (b. 1918 )

  • April 11 & ndash; Ahmed Ben Bella , 1st President of Algeria (b. 1918 )

  • April 15 & ndash; Murray Rose , Australian swimmer (b. 1939 )

  • April 16 & ndash; Mćrsk Mc-Kinney Mřller , Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913 )

  • April 18 & ndash; Dick Clark , American television host and producer (b. 1929 )

  • April 19 & ndash; Levon Helm , American musician (b. 1940 )

  • April 20 & ndash; Valeri Vasiliev , Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949 )

  • April 29 & ndash; Shukri Ghanem , Libyan Prime Minister (2003–2006) (b. 1942 )

  • April 30 & ndash; Alexander Dale Oen , Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985 )


    • May


  • May 4 & ndash; Rashidi Yekini , Nigerian footballer (b. 1963 )

  • May 8 & ndash; Maurice Sendak , American author (b. 1928 )

  • May 9 & ndash; Vidal Sassoon , British hairdresser (b. 1928 )


    • Major religious holidays


  • January 6 & ndash; Christmas Day (Celebrated by the Armenian Church )

  • January 7 & ndash; Christmas Day (December 25 in the Julian Calendar , celebrated by Eastern Orthodoxy )

  • February 1 & ndash; Imbolc , a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)

  • February 22 & ndash; Ash Wednesday & ndash; Western Christianity

  • March 8

  • * Purim & ndash; Judaism

  • * Holi & ndash; Hinduism

  • March 20 & ndash; Spring Equinox , Nouruz|Persian New Year , also known as Ostara

  • April 1 & ndash; Ramanavami & ndash; Hinduism

  • April 6

  • * Good Friday & ndash; Western Christianity

  • * Hanuman Jayanti & ndash; Hinduism

  • April 7 & ndash; Passover & ndash; Judaism

  • April 8 & ndash; Easter & ndash; Western Christianity

  • April 13 & ndash; Vaisakhi & ndash; Sikhism

  • April 15 & ndash; Easter & ndash; Eastern Christianity

  • May 1 & ndash; Beltane , a Cross-quarter day

  • May 27 & ndash; Shavuot & ndash; Judaism

  • June 4 & ndash; Vesak & ndash; Buddhism cite web|url= http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sila/uposatha2012.html|title=2012 Calendar of Uposatha Days

  • June 20 & ndash; Summer solstice , also known as Midsummer

  • July 20 & ndash; Ramadan begins & ndash; Islam

  • August 1 & ndash; Lammas , a Cross-quarter day

  • August 2 & ndash; Raksha Bandhan & ndash; Hinduism

  • August 10 & ndash; Janmashtami & ndash; Hinduism

  • August 19 & ndash; Eid ul-Fitr|Eid al Fitr & ndash; Islam

  • September 17 & ndash; Rosh Hashanah & ndash; Judaism

  • September 21 & ndash; Equinox|Autumn Equinox , also known as Mabon (Wicca)|Mabon

  • September 26 & ndash; Yom Kippur & ndash; Judaism

  • October 1 & ndash; Sukkot & ndash; Judaism

  • October 2 & ndash; Mehregan & ndash; Zoroastrianism and Persia n Culture

  • October 24 & ndash; Vijaya Dashami /Dusshera & ndash; Hinduism

  • October 26 & ndash; Eid al-Adha , a religious festival in Islam

  • November 1 & ndash; Samhain , a Cross-quarter day, Neopaganism|Neopagan new year and Christianity|Christian All Saints' Day

  • November 13 & ndash; Diwali & ndash; Sikhism - Hinduism

  • November 15 & ndash; Islamic New Year

  • December 9 & ndash; Hanukkah & ndash; Judaism

  • December 25 & ndash; Christmas & ndash; Western Christianity


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