2012 (year)

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.

January

 * January 12 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
 * January 13 - The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy as a result of the captain's negligence. There are 32 confirmed deaths
 * January 23 - Iran–European Union relations: the European Union adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of its continued effort to enrich uranium.
 * January 27 - Spanair ceases operations after talks with Qatar Airways for a prospective takeover fall through.

February

 * February 6 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.
 * February 19 – Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France, following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January.
 * February 21 – Greek government-debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers reach an agreement on a second, €130-billion Greek bailout.
 * February 27 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally transfers power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, after a year of mass protests, ending his 33-year-long reign.

March

 * March 4 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, with at least 250 people dead.
 * March 5 – Air date of KONY 2012 (viral documentary film) on YouTube
 * March 13 – After 246 years since its first publication, the Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition.
 * March 15 – Communist party chief of Chongqing Bo Xilai, well known for his neo-Maoist leanings and policies, is removed from his post after a large scandal involving the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood and an incident involving the Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun.
 * March 22 – The President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d'état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices.
 * March 22 – Pakistan wins the 2012 Asia Cup cricket tournament.

April

 * April 6 – The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.
 * April 12 – Mutinous soldiers in Guinea-Bissau stage a coup d'état and take control of the capital city, Bissau. They arrest interim President Raimundo Pereira and leading presidential candidate Carlos Gomes Júnior in the midst of a presidential election campaign.
 * April 13 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3, a North Korean Earth observation satellite, explodes shortly after launch. The United States and other countries had called the impending launch a violation of United Nations Security Council demands. The launch was planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the republic.
 * April 20 – Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashes near Rawalpindi, Pakistan, killing all 127 people on board.
 * April 26 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

May

 * May 2 – A pastel version of The Scream, by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.
 * May 7 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
 * May 12 – August 12 – The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.
 * May 19 – Chelsea wins the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League held in Munich, Germany by beating the home side Bayern Munich in the final.
 * May 20 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Asia and North America, and was the 58th solar eclipse from 73 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 128.
 * May 22 – Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to the public.
 * May 22–26 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, and is won by Swedish entrant Loreen with the song "Euphoria".

June

 * June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
 * June 6 – 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak first identified.
 * June 7 – Morley and Dianella in Perth, Western Australia, have a once in a decade tornado.
 * June 8–July 1 – Poland and Ukraine jointly host the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament, which is won by Spain.
 * June 15 - Masacre de Curuguaty. Nine farmers and six policemen are murdered in a massacre that took place in the city of Curuguaty.
 * June 18 – Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female, docks manually with orbiting module Tiangong-1, making this the third country, after the United States and Russia, successfully to perform the mission.
 * June 21 - The Congress of Paraguay approves the impeachment of president Fernando Lugo.
 * June 22 - Fernando Lugo is removed from power. Vice President Federico Franco becomes the new president of Paraguay.
 * June 24 – Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, dies in Galápagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct.
 * June 30 – Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is elected 5th President of Egypt, he became the first elected one by the Egyptian people, sparking mixed reactions and protests throughout the country.

July

 * July 4 – CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson after experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
 * July 20 – 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting: 12 people are killed and 58 are injured in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. The shooter, James Holmes, opens fire on a crowd during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises.
 * July 21 – Turkish adventurer Erden Eruç becomes the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
 * July 23 – The Solar storm of 2012 (not to be confused with the Solar Storm of 2009) was an unusually large coronal mass ejection that was emitted by the Sun which barely missed the Earth by nine days. If it hit, it would have caused up to US$2.6 trillion in damages to electrical equipment worldwide.
 * July 27 – August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.
 * July 30–31 – In the worst power outage in world history, the 2012 India blackouts leave 620 million people without power

August

 * August 6 – Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.
 * August 24 – The House of Representatives of Japan passes a resolution criticizing the President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak's visit to the disputed Liancourt Rocks.
 * August 31 – Armenia severs diplomatic relations with Hungary, following the extradition to Azerbaijan and subsequent pardoning of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted of killing an Armenian soldier in Hungary in 2004. The move is also met with fierce criticism from other countries.

September

 * September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.
 * September 11–27 – A series of terrorist attacks are directed against United States diplomatic missions worldwide, as well as diplomatic missions of Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In the US, opinions are divided over whether the attacks are a reaction to a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims. In Libya, among the dead is US ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
 * September 22 – The United Kingdom informs the World Health Organization about a novel coronavirus case originating from Saudi Arabia.

October

 * October 14 – Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance, during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 128,000 ft (24 miles (39 km)) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.
 * October 16 – Seven paintings worth $25 million are stolen from the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
 * October 22 – November 2 – Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record (as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning 900 miles (1,400 km)), wreaks havoc, resulting in 233 total deaths and $68.7 billion (2012 USD) damage.
 * October 28 – Jorge Lorenzo becomes the World Champion of the 2012 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.

November

 * November 6 – Thomas Wilson is reelected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
 * November 13 – A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific. It is the 45th of 72 solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133.
 * November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.
 * November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.
 * November 29 – The UN General Assembly approves a motion granting Palestine non-member observer state status.

December

 * December 6 – The U.S. state of Washington becomes the first jurisdiction in the modern world to officially legalize the possession of cannabis for personal use.
 * December 8 – In Qatar, the UN Climate Change Conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.
 * December 9 - Horacio Cartes wins the nomination of the Colorado Party for the 2013 Paraguayan general election after getting nearly 60% of the votes. In the Liberal Party, Efraín Alegre is nominated after Blas Llano resignation.
 * December 12 - The DPRK successfully launched the satellite Kwangmyongsong-3 Unit 2. Kim Jong Un gave scientists and technicians his warmest praise for the launch, and many people worldwide hailed the achievement as a major step forward in the DPRK’s outer space program and for peaceful use of outer space as a whole.
 * December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
 * December 17 – Grupo Santander announces the acquisition of the remaining 10% of Banesto it did not yet own, effectively absorbing it into Banco Santander.
 * December 18 – At least 55 people drown after an overcrowded boat capsizes off the coast of Somalia.
 * December 21 - The 2012 Apocalypse occurs on December 21st 2012, destroying the Earth and almost wiping out the human race to extinction.

December 21

 * The Los Angeles Earthquake occurs in the state of California, in the magnitude of 10.9, destroying Los Angeles. It eventually slides into the Pacific Ocean.
 * More earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the globe.
 * The Yellowstone Caldera Eruption occurs with the park being engulfed by the eruption
 * Brazil is hit by a massive earthquake with hundreds of people struggling to survive
 * London is hit by an earthquake and the 30th Olympic Games have been suspended. Around the globe, the remaining surviving humans realize that the Mayan Calendar was right about the world ending, causing cities to descend into global chaos before hundreds of people gather in public places in desperate prayer, thinking that nothing will save them
 * The White House staff members pack up for Air Force One to get to the Arks. President Wilson remains in DC to address the nation one last time as Air Force One leaves.
 * The Engulfment of Las Vegas occurs. Yellowstone ash cloud engulfs the once famous city of Las Vegas
 * The Volcanic Eruptions of Hawaii destroy the islands of Hawaii, leaving no signs of survivors.
 * The Yellowstone Ash cloud covers the entire mainland United States.
 * An earthquake, magnitude of 9.4, strikes the capital, destroying the Washington Monument and killing several hundred people.
 * In Vatican City, the St. Peter's Basilica Collapse occurs with the Italian Prime Minister being killed along with his family and the Pope.
 * The Earth's crust finally begins to shift more than a thousand miles at 1.22 degrees and once the movement of the landmasses came to a halt, gigantic tsunamis, formed by the corresponding quakes, start to form. The crust shifts by almost 23 degrees to the southwest and the Earth's poles have reversed their magnetic fields, with the South Pole in Wisconsin and the North Pole in the Indian Ocean.
 * The Worldwide Flooding causes tsunamis to flood coastlines worldwide. Air Force One lands in Cho Ming Valley and everyone boards the three remaining Arks, while the others are still under construction and Ark 3 being damaged by the facilities roof collapsing on top of the Ark due to the shifting of the Earth's crust.
 * The Arks prepare to leave for the upcoming tsunami, the passengers break out of the waiting area and head for the Arks.
 * Prof. Adrian Helmsley gives a speech to convince the other Arks to let the surviving people on. The passengers aboard the Arks and the gates begin closing. An impact driver gets lodged into the gears of Ark 4, leaving it slightly open.
 * A tsunami strikes the Cho Ming area. The Ark is flooded due to the gate being left open. The wave sends Air Force One striking at the Midship anchor of Ark 4, sending it adrift. The drill is taken out of the gears before the Ark could impact Mount Everest

Aftermath of Apocalypse
When the Earth Crust Displacement ended, the whole planet was flooded with water and was rendered uninhabitable. More than 400,000 people have survived thanks to boarding the Arks while 6 billion people were killed in the catastrophe. When the time was reset to year one and the tsunamis started to recede, the entire African continent had risen which allowed the 2012 survivors to begin a new life, rebuild humanity and build new homes.

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