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This article is about the year 2012. For the movie, see 2012 (film). For other uses, see 2012 (disambiguation).
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2012 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
2012
MMXII
Ab urbe condita
2765
Armenian calendar
1461
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԱ
Bahá'í calendar
168 – 169
Bengali calendar
1419
Berber calendar
2962
Buddhist calendar
2556
Burmese calendar
1374
Byzantine calendar
7520 – 7521
Chinese calendar
辛卯年十二月初八日
(4648/4708-12-8)
— to —
壬辰年十一月十九日
(4649/4709-11-19)
Coptic calendar
1728 – 1729
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2004 – 2005
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5772 – 5773
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2068 – 2069
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1934 – 1935
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5113 – 5114
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12012
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1390 – 1391
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1433 – 1434
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Heisei 24
(平成24年)
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4345
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2555
Unix time
1325376000 – 1356998399
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2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar. It will be the 2012th year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 3rd of the 2010s decade.
It has been designated Alan Turing Year, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of Turing's birth.1
There are a variety of popular beliefs about the year 2012. These beliefs range from the spiritually transformative to the apocalyptic, and center upon various interpretations of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Contemporary scientists have disputed the apocalyptic versions.2
Predicted and scheduled events
January
January 13–January 22 – The first Winter Youth Olympics will be held in Innsbruck, Austria.
January 31 – 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13×13×33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019 km; 16,639,090 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on February 17, 1996.3
February
February 6 – Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marking the 60th anniversary of her accession to the Thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia & New Zealand (as well as the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth).
April
April 17 – The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.citation needed
May
May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo is to be held in Yeosu, South Korea.
May 20 – Annular solar eclipse. Path of annularity runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
June
June 6 – The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
June 8 – Opening ceremony of the UEFA Euro 2012
June 18–June 23 – Turing Centenary Conference at the University of Cambridge, in honor of the mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the last day of the conference being the hundredth anniversary of his birth.4
July
July 1 – Final match of the UEFA Euro 2012
July 27 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 19:30 UTC, 20:30 BST.5
August
August 12 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
August 29 – Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics begins in London.5
September
September 9 – Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
November
November 13 – Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
December
December 21 – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization among others, completes a "great cycle" of thirteen b'ak'tuns (periods of 144,000 days each) since the mythical creation date of the calendar's current era.
December 31 – The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.
Unknown dates
China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft.
Pleiades, a proposed supercomputer built by Intel and SGI for NASA's Ames Research Center, will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 10 Petaflops (10 quadrillion floating point operations per second).6
Sequoia, a proposed super computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration will be completed, reaching a peak performance of 20 Petaflops.7
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 period between successive solar maxima averages 11 years (the Schwabe cycle), and the previous solar maximum of Solar Cycle 23 occurred in 2000–2002.8 During the solar maximum the sun's magnetic poles will reverse.9
The Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway across the Caucasus is scheduled to be completed sometime in 2012. 10
Major religious holidays
January 6 – Christmas Day (Celebrated by the Armenian Churchdisambiguation needed)
January 7 – Christmas Day by Julian Calendar (Celebrated by some Eastern Orthodox Christians)
February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
February 5 – Mawlid an Nabi – Islam
February 22 – Ash Wednesday - Western Christianity
March 8 – Purim – Judaism
March 8 – Holi – Hinduism
March 20 – Spring Equinox, Persian New Year (Nouruz), also known as Ostara
April 1 – Ramanavami – Hinduism
April 6 – Hanuman Jayanti – Hinduism
April 7 – Passover – Judaism
April 8 – Easter – Western Christianity
April 15 – Easter – Eastern Christianity
May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
May 27 – Shavuot – Judaism
June 17 – Lailat al Miraj – Islam
June 20 – Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer
July 20 – Ramadan Begins – Islam
August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
August 2 – Raksha Bandhan – Hinduism
August 10 – Janmashtami – Hinduism
August 19 – Eid al Fitr – Islam
September 17 – Rosh Hashanah – Judaism
September 21 – Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon
September 26 – Yom Kippur – Judaism
October 1 – Sukkot – Judaism
October 2 – Mehregan – Zoroastrianism and Persian Culture
October 24 – Vijaya Dashami/Dusshera – Hinduism
October 26 – Eid al-Adha, a religious festival in Islam
November 1 – Samhain, a Cross-quarter day, Neopagan new year and Christian All Saints' Day
November 13 – Diwali – Hinduism
November 15 – Islamic New Year
December 9 – Hanukkah – Judaism
December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule
December 25 – Christmas – Western Christianity
See also
2012 phenomenon
2012 in fiction
Notes
^ "TurningCentenary.eu". Turingcentenary.eu. 2010-04-09. http://www.turingcentenary.eu. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
^ "2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?". NASA.
^ "Near Earth Object Fact Sheet". Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/neofact.html. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
^ "Swan.ac.uk". Cs.swan.ac.uk. 2009-07-24. http://cs.swan.ac.uk/cie12. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
^ a b "London 2012". London 2012. http://www.london2012.com/. Retrieved 2010-08-09.
^ "NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer". Nas.nasa.gov. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/News/Releases/2008/05-07-08.html. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
^ Gonsalves, Antone. "IBM Tapped For 20-Petaflop Government Supercomputer". Informationweek.com. http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000842&subSection=News. Retrieved 2010-06-02.
^ Phillips, Tony (10 January 2008). "Solar Cycle 24 Begins". Science@NASA. NASA. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/10jan_solarcycle24.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
^ "The Sun Does a Flip". Science@NASA. NASA. 15 February 2001. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
^ National Geographic, August 2010, page 62.
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