AD 12

AD 12 (XII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito (or, less frequently, year 765 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 12 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

AD 12 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 12 XII
Ab urbe condita	765
Assyrian calendar	4762
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−582 – −581
Berber calendar	962
Buddhist calendar	556
Burmese calendar	−626
Byzantine calendar	5520–5521
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2709 or 2502     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2710 or 2503
Coptic calendar	−272 – −271
Discordian calendar	1178
Ethiopian calendar	4–5
Hebrew calendar	3772–3773
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	68–69
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	3112–3113
Holocene calendar	10012
Iranian calendar	610 BP – 609 BP
Islamic calendar	629 BH – 628 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	AD 12 XII
Korean calendar	2345
Minguo calendar	1900 before ROC 民前1900年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1456
Seleucid era	323/324 AG
Thai solar calendar	554–555
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 138 or −243 or −1015     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 139 or −242 or −1014

Events

By place

Roman Empire

• Annius Rufus is appointed Prefect of Judea.
• Augustus orders a major invasion of Germany beyond the Rhine.
• Quirinius returns from Judea to become a counselor to Tiberius.
• The Armenian Artaxiad dynasty is overthrown by the Romans.

By topic

Arts and sciences

• Ovid stops writing Fasti, because of the lack of resources (being far from the libraries of Rome). He completes 6 books that detail festivals found in the Roman calendar.^[1]

Births

• Mark the Evangelist, Christian evangelist, martyr, known for The Gospel of Mark (approximate date) (d. 68 AD)
• August 31 – Caligula, Roman emperor^[2] (d. 41 AD)

Deaths

• Rhoemetalces I – king of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace from 12 BC to 12 AD