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2012

 

2012

2012 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

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).

    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.

    Theories of Apocalypse and/or Spiritual Transformation

  • According to the Bible Code the world will end due to a collision with a meteor 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.
  • 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.
  • Terence McKenna's Novelty Theory claims that time is a fractal wave of increasing novelty that ends abruptly in 2012.

    References

  • Drosnin, Michael. (1997) The Bible Code. New York, NY: Touchstone Press.
  • Cotterell, Maurice. (1999) The Tutankhamun Prophecies. Rochester, VM: Bear & Co.


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