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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.
Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
Other prophecies and apocalyptic writings and hypotheses for this year include:
Originally posted by Deino:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 — The works of James Joyce will enter the public domain.
- January 15 — Presidential elections in Finland
- January 23 — Chinese New Year and scheduled new moon.[1] This time of year is associated with the Water-Dragon in Chinese astrology.[2]
- January 31 — 433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) is expected to 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.[3]
February
- February 5 — Super Bowl XLVI will be played.
- February 6 — If she is still on the throne, 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 control of the military of the Republic of Korea after 50 years of control.
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.[4]
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.[5][6]
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 28 — Penumbral lunar eclipse
December
- December 3 — Jupiter oppositions.
- 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).[7] 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.[8] However, it is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next.
- The 2012 Winter Solstice will also occur on this day at 11:11 UTC.[9]
- 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.[10]
- 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[11]
- 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 Meridian Broadcasting, ITV London, Tyne Tees Television and UTV being the last areas to switch off analogue.[12]
- Australia and Ireland plan to cease analogue television broadcasts.
- California's ban on the production of foie gras is scheduled to take effect.
- NASA's new Orion spacecraft is scheduled to become fully operational for International Space Station support flights.
- China plans to launch the Kuafu spacecraft
- Freedom Tower in New York City: Construction is scheduled to be finished by 2012 at the latest.
- Sight & Sound magazine will conduct its Top Ten Films of All-Time poll for the seventh decade since 1952.
- The Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel is set to 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, are planned to be in service.
- NASA predicts that the Sun will reverse its own magnetic poles during 2012 as result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle.[13]
- The Canadian Navy receives the delivery of the first Joint Support Ship.
- Charles Manson will be eligible for his twelfth parole hearing.
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.
Accordingly, several eclectic authors claim that a major, world-changing event will take place in 2012:
- The 1995 book The Mayan Prophecies linked the Maya calendar with long-period sunspot cycles.
- The book 2012: Mayan Year of Destiny claims the Maya may have been instructed in their wisdom by disembodied entities from Orion and the Pleiades. Contact was maintained through shamanic rituals conducted in accordance with the movements of planets and stars. However, some Mayan priests living and working in Guatemala assert that there is no legitimacy to this theory.
- The 1997 book The Bible Code claims that, according to certain algorithms of the Bible code, a meteor, asteroid or comet will collide with the Earth.
- The book The Nostradamus Code speaks of a series of natural disasters caused by a comet (possibly as above) that will allow the third Antichrist to disperse his troops around the globe under the guise of aid in preparation for a possible nuclear war, although in the strictest sense it is unspecific as to nuclear war or some other natural or man caused destruction.
- The book The Orion Prophecy claims that the Earth's magnetic field will reverse.
- The 2005 book Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds where authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.
- 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.
- The 2007 book Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End by Lawrence Joseph does not make any specific new predictions, but it reviews a number of 2012 predictions made by various sources, and presents arguments for the possible existence of dangerous positive feedback loops involving solar storms, Earth's magnetic field, cosmic rays, hurricanes, global warming, earthquakes, and supervolcanoes that may be on the verge of erupting.
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.
- Some proponents of a peak oil catastrophe place major events in 2012. Richard C. Duncan's book The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road To The Olduvai Gorge claims that the Olduvai cliff will begin and permanent blackouts will occur worldwide. Several studies predict a peak in oil production in or around 2012.[14][15][16]
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