AD 12 (
XII
XII may refer to:
* 12 (number) or XII in Roman numerals
* 12th century or XII in Roman numerals
* ''XII'' (album), a 2012 album by American country music singer Neal McCoy
* ''XII'' (single), a 2019 single album by K-pop singer Chungha, featuri ...
) was a
leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the
Consulship of
Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman people, Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caes ...
and
Capito
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(or, less frequently, year 765 ''
Ab urbe condita
''Ab urbe condita'' ( 'from the founding of the City'), or ''anno urbis conditae'' (; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. It is an exp ...
''). 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.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
*
Annius Rufus
Annius Rufus succeeded Marcus Ambivulus as the 3rd Prefect of Judea in 12.
History
His tenure was apparently without incident since the only event that Josephus reports as occurring while he was in office is the death of Augustus in Rome in 14. He ...
is appointed
Prefect of
Judea.
*
Augustus orders a major invasion of
Germany beyond the
Rhine.
*
Quirinius returns from
Judea to become a
counsel
A counsel or a counsellor at law is a person who gives advice and deals with various issues, particularly in legal matters. It is a title often used interchangeably with the title of ''lawyer''.
The word ''counsel'' can also mean advice given ...
or 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
*
Mark the Evangelist
Mark the Evangelist ( la, Marcus; grc-gre, Μᾶρκος, Mârkos; arc, ܡܪܩܘܣ, translit=Marqōs; Ge'ez: ማርቆስ; ), also known as Saint Mark, is the person who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Acco ...
, Christian evangelist, martyr, known for
The Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Mark), or simply Mark (which is also its most common form of abbreviation). is the second of the four canonical gospels and of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to h ...
(approximate date) (d.
68 AD)
*
August 31 –
Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August 12 – 24 January 41), better known by his nickname Caligula (), was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 until his assassination in 41. He was the son of the popular Roman general Germanicu ...
,
Roman Emperor (d.
41 AD)
Deaths
*
Rhoemetalces I - king of the
Odrysian kingdom of
Thrace from 12 BC to 12 AD
References
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