2012

Apocalypse (noun): Something disclosed, especially something not previously known or realized: disclosure, exposé, exposure, revelation. Informaleye opener. Seeshow/hide.

So many people are convinced that something big and transformative will happen in 2012. Why not make something happen instead of waiting around for it to happen by itself? That's five years from now. Let us devise a five year plan such that by 2012 we will have fundamentally jumpstarted our intellectual and activist capacities such that we can say that history is following a new direction without exaggeration.

 

 

 

 

 

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2012 by topic:

News by month

Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

Arts

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music (Country, UK) - Film - Television - Home video

Politics

Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders - Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology - Meteorology - Rail transport - Science - Spaceflight

Sports

Sport - Australian Football League - Baseball - Football (soccer) - Ice Hockey - Motor Racing - Tennis

By place

Africa - Argentina - Australia - Canada - Denmark - India - Iraq - Ireland - Japan - Luxembourg - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Philippines - Singapore - South Africa - Switzerland - United Kingdom -Wales - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Deaths - Awards - Gay rights - Games - Law - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents [hide] 1 Predicted and scheduled events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates 2 Major religious holidays 3 Apocalypticism/Spiritual transformation 4 Fiction 5 References 6 External links

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Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 6 - New Mexico celebrates its centennial for 100 years of statehood.
• January 23 - Chinese New Year and scheduled new moon. [1] This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese astrology. [2]
• January 31 - 433 Eros the second largest Near Earth Object on record is expected to pass Earth at .1790 astronomical units (1 AU – about 93 million miles – is the average distance from Earth to the sun). Size 13x13x33 Km. NASA studied Eros in the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched February 2000. [3]

February

• February 5 - Super Bowl XLVI will be played.
• February 6 - If she is still on the throne, Elizabeth II will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. A series of festivities across the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations will likely run throughout the year.

• 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 Claimant: Ram Bahadur Bomjon who disappeared in 2006 is believed to return on this date (six years from his departure)

April

• April - Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, will celebrate its 100th anniversary, providing that a new ballpark in Boston is not built by then.
• 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 1 - Presidential Elections in Mexico
• July 27 - Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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 20:36 (Eastern Daylight Time), the Earth will be home to 7 billion, according to the US Census Bureau. [4] [5]

November

• November 6 - United States Presidential Elections
• November 13 - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).

December

• December 3 - Jupiter oppositions
• December 21 - The Long Count calendar used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BCE August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283). The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is only a single known but incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Stela 6) which records this date. However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next. The December solstice for 2012 also occurs on this day.
• December 23 - The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.
• December 28 - Full moon
• December 31 - Expiration of the Kyoto Protocol

Unknown dates

• 100th anniversary of the sea scouts organization.
• 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 [6].
• 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 Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London, Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue [7].
• 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 Orion spacecraft is scheduled to become fully operational for International Space Station support flights.
• China plans to launch the Kuafu spacecraft
• 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.
• Sight & Sound magazine will conduct its Top Ten Films of All-Time poll for the seventh decade since 1952.

Major religious holidays

• February 1 - Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
• March 20 - Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
• May 1 - Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
• June 20 - Summer Solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha.
• August 1 - Lammas, a Cross-quarter day.
• September 21 - Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon.
• November 1 - Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year.
• December 21 - Winter Solstice, also known as Yule.
• December 25 - Christmas

Apocalypticism/Spiritual transformation

The following predictions are theories based upon sources of varying origin and credibility.

• 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. [8].
• 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 another code found.
• Many interpret the ending of the Long Count of the Mayan Calendar on December 21 to mean a global spiritual transformation, or shift in consciousness.
• According to the book The Orion Prophecy, the Earth's magnetic field is expected to reverse.

Fiction

• In The X-Files, aliens are expected to invade Earth on December 22 and take over the world.
• In the Doctor Who episode Dalek, a Dalek breaks loose under the Utah salt plains, and plans to kill every living thing on Earth, in this year.
• 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.
• On Futurama, the year of the War of 2012, during which comedian/talk-show host Conan O'Brien 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, during the lead-up to the 2012 Olympics.

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"
• The VNV Nation song "Honour"
• Pinchbeck, Daniel. (2006) 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
• Satinover, Jeffrey, M.D. (1997) Cracking the Bible Code. New York, NY: HarperCollins Press.

External links

• 2012: Dire Gnosis. Retrieved on July 01, 2005.
• Timewave Zero 2012 Yahoo Discussion Group. Retrieved on August 13, 2006.
• 2012 Eschaton. Retrieved on August 13, 2006. Mayan Calendrics, Earth Changes, Eschatology, End Times
• When Will the World End - 2012? by Ellen Lloyd. Retrieved on October 14, 2006.

Preceded by: 2011

Years 2012

Succeeded by: 2013