2012
|
|
| Years: 2009 2010 2011 - 2012(MMXII) - 2013 2014 2015 | |
| Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s - 2010s - 2020s 2030s 2040s | |
| Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century | |
2012 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Several prophecies and legends project this year as when the End of the World will occur.
| Contents |
Events
March
- French Presidential election
May
- 20th - Annular solar eclipse
June
- 6th - Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this century; the next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
November
- 6th - Presidential election in the United States
- 13th - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
December
- 21st - End of the twelfth, final baktun in the long count of the Mayan calendar
- 22nd - The date set for the supposed beginning of alien colonization in the sci-fi television series The X-Files
As Of Yet Unknown
- 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2012 Summer Paralympics
- LISA will be launched to probe the Universe.
- One of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers will enter service, possibly named HMS Queen Elizabeth
- The Sun will completely flip its magnetic field causing the north and south magnetic poles to reverse. This happens regularly with every 11-year sunspot cycle.
- 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.
Theories of Apocalypse and/or Spiritual Transformation
- December 21 - End of the great cycle of the Maya calendar's Long Count, and thus the alleged end of our world (the end of the cycle is dated December 23 by some calculations). Also interpreted as a change in human consciousness: the end of the world as we know it but the start of a new one.
- According to the Bible Code the world will end due to a collision with a meteor, asteroid or comet.
- According to spiritualist writer Bob Frissell, John Major Jenkins and others, humankind will ascend into a higher state of collective consciousness.
- 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 ends abruptly in 2012.
- David Flynn claims the year 2012 was encrypted in the Roswell Crash and points to ET intelligence indicating a world scale change event in support of the Mayan calendar here: http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/flynn.htm
- According to the Doctor Who episode Dalek, a Dalek breaks loose under the Utah salt plains and plans to kill every living thing on Earth.
References
- Drosnin, Michael. (1997) The Bible Code. New York, NY: Touchstone Press.
- Cotterell, Maurice. (1999) The Tutankhamun Prophecies. Rochester, VM: Bear & Co.
- Template:Web referenceaf:2012
ca:2012 cy:2012 de:2012 el:2012 es:Wikipedia:Artículo futuro eo:2012 fr:2012 hr:2012 ia:2012 it:2012 la:2012 nl:2012 ja:2012年 no:2012 pl:2012 pt:2012 ro:2012 sr:2012 fi:2012 sv:2012