12

This page is about the year 12 AD. For the actual number, see twelve.

12 is a year in the 1st century. It 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.

AD 12 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	AD 12 XII
Ab urbe condita	765
Assyrian calendar	4762
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−581
Berber calendar	962
Buddhist calendar	556
Burmese calendar	−626
Byzantine calendar	5520–5521
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 2708 or 2648     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 2709 or 2649
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	ལྕགས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Sheep) 138 or −243 or −1015     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Water-Monkey) 139 or −242 or −1014

Events

• Annius Rufus is appointed Prefect of Judea.
• Germanicus and Gaius Fonteius Capito become Roman Consuls.
• Quirinius returns from Judea to become a counselor to Tiberius
• 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.
• October 12 – The Introduction of the so-called Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 was a continued discriminatory enactation on the 12th of October, in British India respectively.

Births

• August 31 – Caligula, Roman Emperor