2012
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2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 23 - Chinese New Year and scheduled new moon. [link] This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese astrology. [link]
February
- February 14 - Arizona celebrates its centennial for 100 years of statehood.
March
- March 01 - Greek Drachma bank notes are exchangable for Euro until this time.
- March 19 - Buddha Claimont: Ram Bahadur Bomjon who disappeared in 2006 is believed to return on this date (six years from his departure)
April
- April 1 - The USA Federal Census of 1940 is released to the public.
- April 15 - 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
May
- May 19 - Saturday Night Live's contract expires.
- May 20 - Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday.
- May 20 - French Presidential election.
June
- June 6 - Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this century; the next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125 (see Transit of Venus, 2012).
- 2012 European Football Championship will be played in either Italy, Hungary/Croatia or Poland/Ukraine.
July
- July 1 - The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office.
- July 2 - Presidential Elections in Mexico
- July 27 - Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.
August
- August 12 - Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, a Sunday.
- August 29 - Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics
September
- September 9 - Finish of the 2012 Summer Paralympics
October
- October 18 - at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion, according to the US Census Bureau.
November
- November 6 - United States Presidential Elections
- November 13 - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
December
- December 21 - Winter solstice will occur at universal time.
- December 23 - The long count will end in the Maya calendar
- December 31 - Expiration of the Kyoto Protocol
Unknown dates
- The Replacement Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open to traffic, replacing the old Eastern canteliever span that was damaged in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989, almost a quarter century (23 years) after the span was damaged [link].
- India's 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012) ends and the 12th one (2012-2017) starts.
- The United Kingdom plans to complete 5-year process to cease analogue television broadcasts region-by-region, with Channel Television in the Channel Islands being the last area to switch off.
- One of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers will enter service, possibly named HMS Queen Elizabeth.
- The longest bridge in the world, the "Strait of Messina Bridge" ("Ponte sullo Stretto di Messina" connecting Sicily to mainland Italy) is expected to open.
- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project expected to be complete.
- This is the year when California's ban on the production of foie gras is scheduled to take effect.
- NASA's new Crew Exploration Vehicle is scheduled to become fully operation for International Space Station support flights.
- The 5-year production contract (made in 2006, announced in 2005) for American Idol, ends this year.
- Freedom Tower in New York City: Construction is scheduled to be finished by 2012 at the latest.
The following predictions are theories based upon sources of varying origin and credibility. Many of these theories rely upon conjecture, and should therefore not be considered to be facts.
- The Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide, according to "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan.
- The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, speculated that Pope Benedict XVI would reign during the beginning of the tribulation of which Jesus spoke, and sometime later a future pope described in the prophecy as "Peter the Roman", the last in this prophetic list, would appear, bringing as a result the destruction of the city of Rome and the Last Judgement. [link].
- Terence McKenna's Novelty Theory, based on a mathematical interpretation of human events, predicts a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
- According to the 1997 book The Bible Code, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. Some believe this means the world will end. It may also be destroyed according to anther code found. This event was supposedly prophesized by John the Evangelist as Wormwood in the Book of Revelation.
Fiction
- In The X-Files, aliens are expected to invade Earth on December 22 and take over the world.
- According to the Doctor Who episode Dalek, on this year a Dalek breaks loose under the Utah salt plains and plans to kill every living thing on Earth. The episode also predicts that by this year a billionaire named Henry van Statten will be the most powerful man on Earth, claiming to own the Internet itself.
- In Methuselah's Children and Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein, mention is made of a crucial meeting of the Howard Families held that year. In both novels, viewpoint character Lazarus Long is asked what happened at this meeting as he is the last living eyewitness; in both novels he declines to answer.
- The Notion Club Papers will be discovered at Oxford by Mr. Howard Green.
- Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles concludes, with the Invisibles' "fictional" universe expanding into the meta-context of the "higher universe", possibly our own.
- This is the year that Fry's dog on Futurama died at the ripe old age of 15.
- Also on Futurama, the year of the War of 2012, in which comedian/talk-show host Conan O'Brien fought and subsequently lost his "freakishly long legs".
- With the 6th Mayan world beginning, magic returns to the world in an event called "The Awakening" in the pen-and-paper RPG Shadowrun.
- In the anime series RahXephon, 2012 is the year when Tokyo Jupiter incident occurred, ending a nuclear war between humans and interdimensional invader race of Mu and completely sealing Tokyo off the outside world. The Tokyo Jupiter incident is one of the pivotal points of the series' plot.
- The Doctor Who episode Fear Her takes place in this year.
References
- Drosnin, Michael. (1997) The Bible Code. New York, NY: Touchstone Press.
- Hancock, Graham. (1995) Fingerprints of the Gods. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press.
- The Incubus song "A Certain Shade of Green"
Morrison, Grant, and various artists (1995-2000) The Invisibles, vol. 1 issues 1-25, vol. 2 issues 1-22, vol. 3 issues 12-1. New York, NY: Vertigo Comics.
- Pinchbeck, Daniel. (2006) . New York, NY: Penguin Group.
- Satinover, Jeffrey, M.D. (1997) Cracking the Bible Code. New York, NY: HarperCollins Press.
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