2012
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2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted events
January
- January 23 - Chinese New Year and scheduled new moon. [1] This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese astrology. [2]
February
March
April
- April 7 - Jewish Passover (Pesach)
- April 15 - 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
May
- May 19 - Saturday Night Live's contract is up
- May 20 - Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday
- French Presidential election, also occurring on May 20th
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.
July
- July 1 - The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by Universal suffrage take office.
- 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 —
- Marks the beginning of the Winter Solstice at 11:11 UTC. [3]
- Possible date for the end of the twelfth, final baktun in the long count of the Maya and Aztec calendars.
- December 22 — Possible date for the end of the long count of the Maya and Aztec calendars.
- December 23 — Possible date for the end of the long count of the Maya and Aztec calendars.
- December 31 — End of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
Unknown dates
- 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 analog 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.
- Superbowl XLVI
- NASCAR 54th running of the Daytona 500
- 100th Grey Cup
Apocalypticism/Spiritual transformation
The following predictions are theories based upon sources of varying origin and credibility. Many of these theories rely upon a decent amount of conjecture, and should therefore not be considered to be facts, but instead as theories.
- 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.
- Terence McKenna's Novelty Theory claims that time is a fractal wave of increasing novelty that goes exponential in 2012.
- December 21 - End of the great cycle of the Maya calendar's Long Count and a 26,000 year planetary cycle in the Aztec calendar, and thus the end of this Baktun (the end of the cycle is dated December 22 or December 23 by some calculations).
- According to the 1997 book The Bible Code a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth. Some believe this means the world will end. This event was supposedly prophesized by John the Evangelist as Wormwood in the Book of Revelation.
- Tibetan Monks specialising in remote viewing predict that divine extra-terrestrials will intervene at a point where the world's governments are about to deploy weapons of mass destruction. Adding to this, the Tibetan Monks say that the world is not ready to be destroyed and that our Earth is blessed and being saved continuously from all kinds of hazards of which mankind is not even aware.[4]
- The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, speculated that Pope Benedict XVI would reign during the beginning of the tribulation which Jesus spoke of, 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. [5]. It is possible that Benedict XVI and Peter the Roman are the same person, according to some interpretations. [6]
- Charismatic Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon is talking extensively about the End of Restoration in 2012, and beginning of a New Sinless Time for Mankind. [7][8]
- Some postulate that a Galactic SuperWave (A galactic superwave is a large quantity of gamma rays which are released at somewhat regular intervals from a Pulsar) will strike the Earth around the 2012 time frame, as discussed by Dr. Paul LaViolette. Also see Dr. Paul LaViolette bio, and Insight
Fiction
- 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 the X-Files universe, the colonization by the aliens will finally occur on December 22, 2012; this is possibly linked to the Apocalyptic beliefs of Mesoamerican peoples.
- The Notion Club Papers will be discovered at Oxford by Mr. Howard Green.
- Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles concludes. All the events in the comics series may be a fiction created in virtual reality by a woman living in 2012.
- This is the year that Fry's dog on Futurama died at the ripe old age of 15.
- With the 6th Mayan world beginning, magic returns to the world in an event called "The Awakening" in the pen-and-paper RPG Shadowrun.
References
- Drosnin, Michael. (1997) The Bible Code. New York, NY: Touchstone Press.
- Satinover, Jeffrey, M.D. (1997) Cracking the Bible Code. New York, NY: HarperCollins Press.
- The Incubus song "A Certain Shade of Green"
- Jenkins, John Major. (1998) Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. Rochester, VT: Bear & Company.
- McKenna, Terrence, & McKenna, Dennis. (1975) The Invisible Landscape: Mind Hallucinogens and the I-Ching. New York, NY: HarperCollins Press.
External links
- "2012:Dire Gnosis". The web's leading data-base on the year 2012. Retrieved July 01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "The Bible Code". Earth annihilated in 2012. Retrieved July 01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "Solstice/Galactic Equator conjunction". Jenkins decodes the Long Count calendar. Retrieved July 01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "2012 Solstice/Galactic Equator conjunction - a counterview". Astronomical view of the conjunction. Retrieved July 28.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "Pyramid of Fire". Jenkins' study of a lost Aztec Codex. Retrieved July 01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - "The 2012 Group". An organization gathering information on 2012. Retrieved September 01.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help); Unknown parameter|accessyear=ignored (|access-date=suggested) (help) - Why 2012?
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