2012

Timeline

2011 ← 2012 → 2013

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous

BCE: Last Ice Age • 30,000 • 8000 • 1100 • 218

CE: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1502 • 1853

1900-1999

1900-1939: 1908 • 1912 • 1915 • 1918 • 1920 • 1926 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1938

'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000-present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025

Future

2027 • 2028 • 2030 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

In the real world

• Nippon Television Network Corporation changes its name to Nippon Television Holdings, Inc.

January

• 31 January: Gamera Battle is released for GREE in Japan.

February

• February 15: IDW Publishing's comic series Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters ends with its 12th issue.

March

• 14 March: IDW Publishing's comic series Godzilla: Legends concludes with its fifth issue.

May

• May 23: IDW Publishing releases the first issue of Godzilla.

June

• Emi Ito dies of cancer at the age of 71.

July

• 10 July: The "TOKUSATSU - Special Effects Museum" exhibit opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, at which the short film A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo is played.

August

• 8 August: IDW Publishing releases the first issue of Godzilla: The Half-Century War.

October

• 31 January: Gamera Battle is released for Mobage in Japan.

November

• 17 November: An extended version of A Giant Warrior Descends on Tokyo is released in Japanese theaters, playing before showings of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo.

December

• Tau Ceti e, a rocky super-Earth planet in orbit around the star Tau Ceti, is discovered.

In fiction

• Days before retirement, Houston Brooks receives a coded message from his son, revealing new information about Kong's origins and his role in Skull Island. (Skull Island: The Birth of Kong)

References

This is a list of references for 2012. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

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