2012

Years: 2009 2010 2011 - 2012 - 2013 2014 2015
Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s - 2010s - 2020s 2030s 2040s
Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

2012 will be a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

May 20 - Annular solar eclipse
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.
November 6 - Presidential election in the United States
November 13 - Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
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 ie. the 'end' of the world as we know it but the start of a new one
2012 Summer Olympics scheduled
2012 Summer Paralympics scheduled
According to the spiritualist writer Bob Frissell humankind will ascend into a higher state of conciousness
LISA will be launched to probe the Universe.