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Unix time. 1325376000 – 1356998399. 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. 2012 was designated as:
2012. This page is a chronology of events in year 2012 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects ( Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia. Additions to this page must follow certain rules, [a] because ...
t. e. The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad [a] and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, followed ...
Officials said the measures could cost as much as $1.2 million. [200] [201] [202] Over the whole of the United States for the year, there were 243 deaths out of 5387 total cases. August 24. 2012 Empire State Building shooting: A gunman shoots and kills a former coworker near the Empire State Building in New York City.
List of UFC events is a list of events held and scheduled by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. UFC's first event, UFC 1 , took place on November 12, 1993.
1856 – Battle of Seattle (1856), Jan 26, Attack by Native American tribesmen upon Seattle, Washington. 1856 – Pottawatomie massacre, May 24, Franklin County, Kansas. 1856 – Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856, (anti-immigration) 1856 – San Francisco Vigilance Movement, San Francisco, California.
History is the interpretation of past events, societies and civilizations. The term history comes from the Greek historia ( ἱστορία ), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology with the English word story as narrative. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica stated that "history in the wider sense is all that has happened ...
25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea ...