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.

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	10s BC  0s BC  0s  – 10s –  20s  30s  40s
Years:	AD 9 AD 10 AD 11 – AD 12 – AD 13 AD 14 AD 15

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	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

• 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