12

Year 12 (XII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Roman Empire

Annius Rufus is appointed Prefect of Judea.
Augustus orders a major invasion of Germany beyond the Rhine.
Germanicus and Gaius Fonteius Capito become Roman Consuls.
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.

Births

August 31—Caligula, Roman Emperor

Translation

The word "12" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Azeri, Belarusian, Belarusian (Taraškievica), Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chuvash, Czech, Corsican, Welsh, Danish, German, Estonian, Greek, Spanish, Esperanto, Basque, French, West Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Croatian, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Icelandic, Italian, Hebrew, Javanese, Georgian, Kashubian, Swahili, Latin, Latvian, Luxembourgish, Lombard, Hungarian, Macedonian, Egyptian Arabic, Malay, Nahuatl, Dutch, Neapolitan, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Uzbek, Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Tahitian, Romanian, Sakha, Albanian, Simple English, Slovak, Slovenian, Sranan, Serbian, Sundanese, Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Venetian, Volapük, Waray-Waray, Yoruba.

Translation(s) in other languages: Alemannic: 10er#12, Amharic: 12 እ.ኤ.አ., Arabic: ملحق:12, Bengali: ১২, Bihari: १२, Persian: ۱۲ (میلادی), Gan: 12年, Korean: 12년, Bishnupriya Manipuri: মারি ১২, Haitian: 12 (almanak jilyen), Lithuanian: 12 m., Marathi: इ.स. १२, Newar / Nepal Bhasa: १२, Japanese: 12年, Oriya: ୧୨, Pali: १२, Ripuarian: Joohr 12, Russian: 12 год, Sanskrit: १२, Thai: พ.ศ. 555, Urdu: 12ء, Cantonese: 12年, Chinese: 12年.