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== Events ==

* January 9 - Paul Quandt was tortured then killed by [[Austin Mark Jones|a man]] and [[Maranda Martin|a girl]].

* January 16 - Beginning of the Mali Civil War.

* January 23 - [[Al-Nusra Front]] is founded as [[Al-Qaeda]]'s branch in Syria.

* February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by [[George Zimmerman]] in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.

* February 25 - [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] resigns as President of Yemen.

* February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by George Zimmerman in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.

* February 27 - [[TJ Lane|Chardon High School shooting]]

* March 11 - Staff Sergeant [[Robert Bales]] goes on a killing spree while stationed in Afghanistan, killing sixteen civilians and wounding six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

* March 11 to 22 - [[Mohammed Merah|Toulouse and Montauban shootings]]

* April 2 - [[One L. Goh|Oikos University shooting]]

* May 7 - [[Vladimir Putin]] is elected President of Russia for the second time.

* April 26 - The Special Court for Sierra Leone finds [[Charles Taylor]] guilty of 11 counts of aiding and abetting [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]] and sentences him to 50 years in prison.

* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta]] uploads his homemade [[Snuff Film|snuff film]] ''1 ~~Lunactic~~, 1 Ice Pick'' to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and [[cannibal]]izing ~~the~~ man, including performing acts of [[necrophilia]]. The victim in the video is identified as 33-year-old Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.

* May 7 - [[Vladimir Putin]] is elected President of Russia for the second time, replacing [[Dmitry Medvedev]], who subsequently becomes Prime Minister.

* May 12 to 13 - [[Los Zetas]] massacres 49 members of the [[Gulf Cartel]] on Mexican Federal Highway 40 in Nuevo León, Mexico.

* May 15 - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]]'s term as President of France comes to an end.

* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta]] uploads his homemade [[Snuff Film|snuff film]] ''1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick'' to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and [[cannibal]]izing an unidentified man, including performing acts of [[necrophilia]]. The victim in the video is later identified as 33-year-old Chinese student Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.

* May 26 - [[Rudy Eugene|Miami cannibal attack]]

* June 2 - Former Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarak]] is sentenced to life in prison for ordering the [[murder]] of peaceful protesters in February 2011.

* June 4 - Luka Magnotta is captured by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while reading news stories about himself.

* July 20 - [[James Holmes]] kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

* July 19 - Beginning of the Battle of Aleppo.

* July 20 - [[James Holmes]] kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] during a midnight showing of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

* June 30 - [[Mohammed Morsi]] is elected President of Egypt, becoming the first [[Muslim Brotherhood]] member to lead the country.

* August 5 - [[Wade Michael Page]] kills 7 people and injures 3 others before committing suicide as part of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.

* September 11 to 12 - [[2012 Benghazi attack]]: militants from [[Ansar-Al Sharia]] attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.

* August 15 - [[Floyd Lee Corkins]] enters the headquarters of the [[Family Research Council]] in Washington D.C. and opens fire, injuring one person before being attacked and subdued by security guards.

* December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: ~~Twenty~~-~~eight people, including the~~ [[Adam Lanza~~|gunman~~]]~~, are killed~~ at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

* September 5 - [[Samuel Little]] is arrested in connection with three [[murder]]s committed in the 1980's.

* September 11 to 12 - [[2012 Benghazi attack]]: militants from [[Ansar al-Sharia]] attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.

* November 15 - [[Xi Jinping]] is named General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of China]].

* December 10 - Beginning of the Central African Republic Civil War.

* December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old [[Adam Lanza]] kills his mother Nancy at their home before killing 26 people (20 children and 6 adults) at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Lanza would commit suicide before first responders could apprehend him.

== Births ==

=== Victim births ===

* January 12 - Neveah Bravo

* January 12 - Eliahna Torres

* February 2 - Jayce Luevanos

* February 6 - Tess Mata

* February 7 - Antonio Santiago

* February 28 - Jeanne Carlopoli

* March 5 - Lincoln and Parrish Auzenne

* March 12 - Xavier Lopez

* March 28 - Xavier and Mason Ingle

* April 19 - Makenna Seiler

* April 28 - Alithia Ramirez

* May 10 - Amerie Garza

* May 25 - J.J Vallow

* June 4 - Ellie Garcia

* June 10 - Jackie Cazares

* August 6 - Bella Bond

* December 31 - Tylea Moore

* Unknown - Cooper Harris

* Unknown - Ko Joon-hee

* Unknown - Ashton Perry

== Deaths ==

=== Villain ~~Deaths~~ ===

=== Villain deaths ===

* January 8 - [[Edward Muscare]]

* January 11 - [[Katherine Dufresne]]

* February 1 - [[Gerlando Alberti]]

* February 5 - [[Josh Powell]]

* March 22 - [[Mohammed Merah]]

* May 2 - [[J. T. Ready]]

* May 26 - [[Rudy Eugene]]

* June 12 - [[Henry Hill]]

* June 30 - [[Yitzhak Shamir]]

* July 9 - [[Muhammad Shabbir]]

* August 5 - [[Wade Michael Page]]

* August 20 - [[Meles Zanawi]]

* September 25 - [[Trevor Hardy]]

* October 7 - [[Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano]]

* November 17 - [[Bal Thackeray]]

* November 21 - [[Ajmal Kasab]]

* December 1 - [[Jovan Belcher]]

* December 2 - [[Israel Keyes]]

* December 14 - [[Adam Lanza]]

=== Victim ~~Deaths~~ ===

* December 29 - [[Ruth Ann Steinhagen]]

=== Victim deaths ===

* January 9 - Paul Quandt

* February 5 - Charles & Braden Powell

* February 26 - Trayvon Martin

* May 25 - Jun Lin

*March 19 - Mark, Lawton and Rhonda Sesler

* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta|Jun Lin]]

* July 6 - Skylar Neese

*July 10 - Amara and Sophie Schaffhausen

* August 10 - Melanie Davis

* September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith

* September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty

*September 12 - Audrie Pott

*October 10 - Amanda Todd

*December 14 - Nancy Lanza and the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting

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 == Events ==
+* January 9 - Paul Quandt was tortured then killed by [[Austin Mark Jones|a man]] and [[Maranda Martin|a girl]].
+* January 16 - Beginning of the Mali Civil War.
 * January 23 - [[Al-Nusra Front]] is founded as [[Al-Qaeda]]'s branch in Syria.
-* February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by [[George Zimmerman]] in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.
+* February 25 - [[Ali Abdullah Saleh]] resigns as President of Yemen.
+* February 26 - 17-year old Trayvon Martin is killed by George Zimmerman in a highly controversial shooting in Sanford, Florida.
 * February 27 - [[TJ Lane|Chardon High School shooting]]
+* March 11 - Staff Sergeant [[Robert Bales]] goes on a killing spree while stationed in Afghanistan, killing sixteen civilians and wounding six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
+* March 11 to 22 - [[Mohammed Merah|Toulouse and Montauban shootings]]
 * April 2 - [[One L. Goh|Oikos University shooting]]
-* May 7 - [[Vladimir Putin]] is elected President of Russia for the second time.
+* April 26 - The Special Court for Sierra Leone finds [[Charles Taylor]] guilty of 11 counts of aiding and abetting [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]] and sentences him to 50 years in prison.
-* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta]] uploads his homemade [[Snuff Film|snuff film]] ''1 Lunactic, 1 Ice Pick'' to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and [[cannibal]]izing the man, including performing acts of [[necrophilia]]. The victim in the video is identified as 33-year-old Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.
+* May 7 - [[Vladimir Putin]] is elected President of Russia for the second time, replacing [[Dmitry Medvedev]], who subsequently becomes Prime Minister.
+* May 12 to 13 - [[Los Zetas]] massacres 49 members of the [[Gulf Cartel]] on Mexican Federal Highway 40 in Nuevo León, Mexico.
+* May 15 - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]]'s term as President of France comes to an end.
+* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta]] uploads his homemade [[Snuff Film|snuff film]] ''1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick'' to www.bestgore.com. The video depicts Magnotta horrificly and gruesomely mutilating, torturing, and [[cannibal]]izing an unidentified man, including performing acts of [[necrophilia]]. The victim in the video is later identified as 33-year-old Chinese student Jun Lin. This begins an international manhunt for Magnotta.
+* May 26 - [[Rudy Eugene|Miami cannibal attack]]
 * June 2 - Former Egyptian President [[Hosni Mubarak]] is sentenced to life in prison for ordering the [[murder]] of peaceful protesters in February 2011.
 * June 4 - Luka Magnotta is captured by Berlin Police at an Internet café in the Neukölln district while reading news stories about himself.
-* July 20 - [[James Holmes]] kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
+* July 19 - Beginning of the Battle of Aleppo.
+* July 20 - [[James Holmes]] kills 12 people and injures 70 others in a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] during a midnight showing of ''The Dark Knight Rises'' at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
+* June 30 - [[Mohammed Morsi]] is elected President of Egypt, becoming the first [[Muslim Brotherhood]] member to lead the country.
 * August 5 - [[Wade Michael Page]] kills 7 people and injures 3 others before committing suicide as part of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.
-* September 11 to 12 - [[2012 Benghazi attack]]: militants from [[Ansar-Al Sharia]] attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.
+* August 15 - [[Floyd Lee Corkins]] enters the headquarters of the [[Family Research Council]] in Washington D.C. and opens fire, injuring one person before being attacked and subdued by security guards.
-* December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the [[Adam Lanza|gunman]], are killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
+* September 5 - [[Samuel Little]] is arrested in connection with three [[murder]]s committed in the 1980's.
+* September 11 to 12 - [[2012 Benghazi attack]]: militants from [[Ansar al-Sharia]] attack the US diplomatic compound and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing four and injuring eleven.
+* November 15 - [[Xi Jinping]] is named General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of China]].
+* December 10 - Beginning of the Central African Republic Civil War.
+* December 14 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: 20-year-old [[Adam Lanza]] kills his mother Nancy at their home before killing 26 people (20 children and 6 adults) at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Lanza would commit suicide before first responders could apprehend him.
+== Births ==
+=== Victim births ===
+* January 12 - Neveah Bravo
+* January 12 - Eliahna Torres
+* February 2 - Jayce Luevanos
+* February 6 - Tess Mata
+* February 7 - Antonio Santiago
+* February 28 - Jeanne Carlopoli
+* March 5 - Lincoln and Parrish Auzenne
+* March 12 - Xavier Lopez
+* March 28 - Xavier and Mason Ingle
+* April 19 - Makenna Seiler
+* April 28 - Alithia Ramirez
+* May 10 - Amerie Garza
+* May 25 - J.J Vallow
+* June 4 - Ellie Garcia
+* June 10 - Jackie Cazares
+* August 6 - Bella Bond
+* December 31 - Tylea Moore
+* Unknown - Cooper Harris
+* Unknown - Ko Joon-hee
+* Unknown - Ashton Perry
 == Deaths ==
-=== Villain Deaths ===
+=== Villain deaths ===
+* January 8 - [[Edward Muscare]]
+* January 11 - [[Katherine Dufresne]]
+* February 1 - [[Gerlando Alberti]]
+* February 5 - [[Josh Powell]]
+* March 22 - [[Mohammed Merah]]
+* May 2 - [[J. T. Ready]]
+* May 26 - [[Rudy Eugene]]
+* June 12 - [[Henry Hill]]
+* June 30 - [[Yitzhak Shamir]]
+* July 9 - [[Muhammad Shabbir]]
 * August 5 - [[Wade Michael Page]]
+* August 20 - [[Meles Zanawi]]
+* September 25 - [[Trevor Hardy]]
+* October 7 - [[Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano]]
+* November 17 - [[Bal Thackeray]]
+* November 21 - [[Ajmal Kasab]]
 * December 1 - [[Jovan Belcher]]
+* December 2 - [[Israel Keyes]]
 * December 14 - [[Adam Lanza]]
-=== Victim Deaths ===
+* December 29 - [[Ruth Ann Steinhagen]]
+=== Victim deaths ===
+* January 9 - Paul Quandt
+* February 5 - Charles & Braden Powell
 * February 26 - Trayvon Martin
-* May 25 - Jun Lin
+*March 19 - Mark, Lawton and Rhonda Sesler
+* May 25 - [[Luka Magnotta|Jun Lin]]
 * July 6 - Skylar Neese
+*July 10 - Amara and Sophie Schaffhausen
+* August 10 - Melanie Davis
 * September 11 - J. Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith
 * September 12 - Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty
+*September 12 -  Audrie Pott
+*October 10 - Amanda Todd
+*December 14 - Nancy Lanza and the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting