Seems like a lot of shit is going down in the year 2012.........
yup....including the apocolypse
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January
January 1 — Poland will adopt the Euro as its official currency.
January 15 — Presidential elections in Finland
January 31 — 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (~26.8 million kilometers; ~16.6 million miles). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on 1996-02-17.[1]
February
February 5 — Super Bowl XLVI will be played at Lucas Oil Field in Indianapolis, Indiana.
February 6 — Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. A series of festivities across the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations will likely run throughout the year.
April
April 1 — The United States Census of 1940 is released to the public.
April 17 — The United States will cede wartime control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years and dissolve the Combined Forces Command. Two distinct military commands (South Korea and the United States) will operate in Korea during wartime, rather than one unified command under the Combined Forces Command.
May
May 20 — Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday.
May - French Presidential election (if the incumbent's term had normally finished in May).
May - Irish general election is due to be held if the current government remains in office for a full term.
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 (see Transit of Venus, 2012).
June 9–July 1 — 2012 European Football Championship will be played in Poland/Ukraine.
July
July 1 — Presidential Elections in Mexico.
July 27 — Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics begins in London at 7:30 pm UTC, 8:30pm BST.[2]
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 — End of the 2012 Summer Paralympics
October
October 19 — at 01:36 UTC, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people, according to the US Census Bureau.[3][4]
November
November 6 — The United States Presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives elections.
November 6 — Puerto Rico general election
November 13 — Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
November 16 - The launch of the Boeing BSS-702, a DirecTv Satellite
November 28 — Penumbral lunar eclipse
December
December - Presidential elections in South Korea to elect the 18th President.
December 3 — Jupiter oppositions.
December 21 — Winter Solstice at 11:11 UTC.[5]
December 21 — The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point (equivalent to 3114 BC August 11 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the "GMT-correlation" JDN= 584283).[6] The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed.[7] However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next.[citation needed]
December 23 — The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the "astronomical" or "Lounsbury correlation"), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.[8]
December 31 — Expiration of the Kyoto Protocol.
Unknown dates
Trinidad and Tobago will hold their general elections.
Jamaica will hold its general elections.
The Replacement Eastern Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will open to traffic, replacing the old Eastern cantilever span that was damaged in the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989, almost a quarter century (23 years) after the span was damaged[9]
India's 11th Five-Year Plan (2007–2012) ends and the 12th one (2012–2017) starts.
The United Kingdom will complete a 5-year process to cease analogue television broadcasts region-by-region, with Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London, Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue.[10]
Australia and Ireland will cease analogue television broadcasts.
California's ban on the production of foie gras will take effect.
NASA's new Orion spacecraft will become fully operational for International Space Station support flights.
China will launch the Kuafu spacecraft
Freedom Tower in New York City: Construction will be finished.
Sight & Sound magazine will conduct its Top Ten Films of All-Time poll for the seventh decade since 1952.
The Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel will be completed, 17 years behind the original plan.
The Canberra class light aircraft carriers/large amphibious ships, the largest ships ever to be operated by the Royal Australian Navy, will be in service.
The sun will reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle.[11]
The Canadian Navy receives the delivery of the first Joint Support Ship.
BHP Square, a 270 metre office building in Perth, Western Australia will be completed.
Major religious holidays
January 7 — Christmas Day by Julian Calendar (Celebrated by Eastern Orthodox Christians)
February 1 — Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places)
February 5 — Mawlid an Nabi - Islam
March 8 — Purim - Judaism
March 20 — Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara
April 7 — Passover - Judaism
April 8 — Easter - Christianity
May 1 — Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
May 27 — Shavuot - Judaism
June 17 — Lailat al Miraj - Islam
June 20 — Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha
July 20 — Ramadan Begins - Islam
August 1 — Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
August 19 — Id al Fitr - Islam
September 17 — Rosh Hashanah - Judaism
September 21 — Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon
October 1 — Sukkot - Judaism
November 1 — Samhain, a Cross-quarter day, Neopagan new year and Christian All Saints' Day
November 15 — New Year - Islam
December 9 — Hanukkah - Judaism
December 21 — Winter solstice, also known as Yule
December 25 — Christmas
Metaphysical predictions
2012 is sometimes claimed to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or apocalypse). Many esoteric sources interpret the completion of the thirteenth B'ak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendar (which occurs on December 21 by the most widely held correlation) to mean there will be a major change in world order.[who?]
Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, an asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
The 2006 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck discusses theories of a possible global awakening to psychic connection by the year 2012, creating a noosphere.
Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:
Terence McKenna's numerological novelty theory suggests a point of singularity in which humankind will go through a great shift in consciousness.
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