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This article is about the year 2012. For other uses, see 2012 (disambiguation).
2012
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February
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April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
From left, clockwise: the passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; people gather at a Mayan temple to commemorate the end of 13th bʼakʼtun in the Mayan calendar on December 21, when it was predicted a doomsday event would occur; NASA's Curiosity Rover lands on the surface of Mars; the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting caused turmoil across the United States; K-pop artist Psy performs his hit single "Gangnam Style", which became a cultural phenomenon in 2012; the elementary particle, the Higgs boson, dubbed "The God Particle", is discovered by CERN and revolutionizes quantum physics; the 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, United Kingdom.
Calendar year
Millennium:
3rd millennium
Centuries:
20th century
21st century
22nd century
Decades:
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
2030s
Years:
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2012 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
2012 MMXII
Ab urbe condita
2765
Armenian calendar
1461 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԱ
Assyrian calendar
6762
Baháʼí calendar
168–169
Balinese saka calendar
1933–1934
Bengali calendar
1419
Berber calendar
2962
British Regnal year
60 Eliz. 2 – 61 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2556
Burmese calendar
1374
Byzantine calendar
7520–7521
Chinese calendar
辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4709 or 4502 — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4710 or 4503
Coptic calendar
1728–1729
Discordian calendar
3178
Ethiopian calendar
2004–2005
Hebrew calendar
5772–5773
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2068–2069
- Shaka Samvat
1933–1934
- Kali Yuga
5112–5113
Holocene calendar
12012
Igbo calendar
1012–1013
Iranian calendar
1390–1391
Islamic calendar
1433–1434
Japanese calendar
Heisei 24 (平成２４年)
Javanese calendar
1945–1946
Juche calendar
101
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4345
Minguo calendar
ROC 101 民國101年
Nanakshahi calendar
544
Thai solar calendar
2555
Tibetan calendar
阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 2138 or 1757 or 985 — to — 阳水龙年 (male Water-Dragon) 2139 or 1758 or 986
Unix time
1325376000 – 1356998399
2012 (MMXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2010s decade.
Calendar year
2012 was designated as:
International Year of Cooperatives[1]
International Year of Sustainable Energy for All[2]
^"2012 - International Year of Cooperatives". United Nations. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
^"2012 - International Year of Sustainable Energy for All". United Nations. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
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