What is 2012?
{{Year nav|2012}} {{Year in various calendars|2012}} '''2012''' ([[Roman numerals|MMXII]]) was a [[leap year starting on Sunday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 2012th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|2012}}. == Events == === January === [[File:Collision of Costa Concordia 5 crop.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The ''Costa Concordia'' on its side after the accident]] * [[January 1]] – Start of [[Denmark]]'s Presidency of the [[European Union]] * [[January 5]] – [[Portia Simpson-Miller]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Jamaica]] for a second time. * [[January 6]] – [[New Mexico]] celebrates the 100th anniversary of its statehood. * [[January 10]] – The [[Doomsday Clock]] is set to five minutes before midnight, after the nuclear disaster at [[Fukushima nuclear disaster|Fukushima]] in [[Japan]] in [[2011]], and the nuclear threat level. * [[January 13]]–[[January 22|22]] – The [[2012 Winter Youth Olympics|first Winter Youth Olympics]] are held in [[Innsbruck]], [[Austria]]. * [[January 13]] – The cruise ship ''[[Costa Concordia]]'' runs aground off the [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] [[coast]], at the [[island]] of [[Giglio]], and [[Costa Concordia disaster|partially sinks]]. Out of more than 4000 people on board, at least 30 people are killed. * [[January 18]] – The [[English Wikipedia|English language Wikipedia]] blacks out for 24 hours in protest against the [[internet]] [[law]]s [[Stop Online Piracy Act|SOPA]] and PIPA proposed by the [[United States Congress]]. * [[January 20]] – 185 people are killed in a series of coordinated [[bomb]]ings in [[Kano]], [[Nigeria]], carried out by the [[Islam]]ist extremist group [[Boko Haram]]. * [[January 23]] – The [[EU]] adopts an embargo against [[Iran]] over its [[uranium]] enrichment. * [[January 30]] – Following this date, [[cold]] weather in [[Europe]] causes several deaths, due to the low temperatures. * [[January 31]] – [[433 Eros]], the second-largest [[Near-Earth object]] on record (size 13×13×33 km) passes Eart