2012
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2012 (MMXII) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. {{Different calendars | gregorian=2012 | auc=2765 | chinese=4708–4709 | japanese=unknown | hebrew=5772–5773 | shaka=1934–1935 | vikram=2067–2068 | hindu=5113–5114 | iranian=1390–1391 | islamic=1433–1434 | runic=2262 }}
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Predicted events
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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]
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February
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March
- March 19 - Buddha Claimont: Ram Bahadur Bomjon whom disappeared in 2006 is believed to return on this date (six years from his departure)
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April
- April 7 - Jewish Passover (Pesach)
- April 15 - 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
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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
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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.
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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.
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August
- August 12 - Closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, a Sunday.
- August 29 - Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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September
- September 9 - Finish of the 2012 Summer Paralympics
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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.
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November
- November 6 - United States Presidential Elections
- November 13 - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
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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.
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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 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.
- Super Bowl XLVI
- NASCAR 54th running of the Daytona 500
- 100th Grey Cup
- It is projected that by 2012 the state of Iowa could have as many as 200,000 more jobs than workers to fill them, which could lead to better wages and benefits. See USA Today, 03/20/2006.
- The 5-year production contract (made in 2006, announced in 2005) for American Idol, ends this year.
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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.
- 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 variously dated anywhere from December 21 to December 26 by some calculations).
- 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
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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.
- 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. 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.
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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.
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External links
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- Why 2012?
- All About 2012
- Sacred Geometry
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