12

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.

 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

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