2012 anniversaries | The Date-A-Base Book 2012

Over 2,250 newsworthy anniversaries that will
occur between January and December 2012

including significant historic events,
inventions, discoveries, births and deaths

The ideal reference book for ...

Writers
Journalists
Editors
TV and radio producers
Researchers
Film-makers
Teachers
Students
Speakers
Event planners
Quiz question setters

Dave and Kate Haslett

Dave and Kate Haslett
editors and publishers

What's in it?

	Details of over 2,250 historic anniversaries that will occur during 2012
	Covers the entire year, January to December 2012
	Anniversaries are listed months in advance so you have time to write about them before they happen
	Includes anniversaries from the UK, USA, and worldwide - see sample chapter below
	Specially formatted for ease of use
	Every entry has been cross-checked with Encyclopaedia Britannica and other official sources for complete accuracy

Why you need this book

The Date-A-Base Book 2012 is a fantastic source of writing ideas, programme ideas, and event ideas.

We've collected events and anniversaries from many different sources, and you'll find entries in this book that aren't generally available elsewhere, but are still significant and worth writing about.

That gives you a big advantage over other writers who don't know about them.

You can instantly see which significant anniversaries will occur during each month, quickly mark the ones you want to write about, then get straight on with your writing.

The entries in the Date-A-Base Book 2012 are listed months in advance, giving you plenty of time to research and write about them, and get your finished work onto editors' desks well before the publication deadline - and ahead of everyone else. That gives you a huge advantage over other writers!

What you can use it for

The Date-A-Base Book 2012 is suitable for writing in any format:

	magazine articles
	newspaper articles
	TV and radio features
	short stories
	novels
	non-fiction books
	screenplays
	poems

You can also use it for:

	event planning
	speeches
	setting quiz questions
	education and training ideas
	advertising features
	and much more

And you don't have to use each item only once; you could turn each one into many different pieces of writing, or adapt a single article for several different markets.

Just one single article sale will pay for your copy of The Date-A-Base Book 2012 many times over.

See a sample

The sample page below is laid out exactly as it is in the book.

JANUARY 2012

The first column Ann. means Anniversary - for example the 600^th anniversary of the event.

Ann.	Date	Event
600	6 Jan 1412 ?	Birth of Joan of Arc, French martyr, saint and national heroine. (This is the date given in a letter from Lord Perceval de Boullainvilliers. Her actual date of birth is impossible to verify, and she could only estimate her age)
600	16 Jan 1412	The Medici family were made the official bankers of the Papacy
500	2 Jan 1512	Death of Svante Sture, Regent of Sweden (1503-12)
500	31 Jan 1512	Birth of King Henry of Portugal
400	17 Jan 1612	Birth of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, English general, commander of the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War
400	20 Jan 1612	Death of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1576-1612)
350	27 Jan 1662	Birth of Richard Bentley, English clergyman, classical scholar and critic
300	24 Jan 1712	Birth of Frederick II (Frederick the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)
300	28 Jan 1712	Birth of Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun
250	4 Jan 1762	Seven Years' War: Britain declared war on Spain and Naples
250	5 Jan 1762	Death of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia (1741-62)
250	11 Jan 1762	Death of Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor, one of the most important Baroque sculptors in 18th century England
200	15 Jan 1812	Birth of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian folklorist and zoologist. Best known for his collections of Norwegian folklore and fairy tales with Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
200	19 Jan 1812	Peninsula War: British and Portuguese forces led by the Duke of Wellington recaptured the town of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain from the French
200	23 Jan 1812 or 24th?	Death of Robert Craufurd, British major-general and politician. Fatally wounded during the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain (see above)
175	2 Jan 1837	Birth of Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer and conductor, best known for promoting musical nationalism
175	19 Jan 1837	Birth of William Williams Keen, the first brain surgeon in the USA
175	20 Jan 1837	Death of Sir John Soane, British Neoclassical architect
175	23 Jan 1837	Death of John Field, Irish pianist and composer, known for his nocturnes
175	26 Jan 1837	Michigan became the 26th U.S. state
150	8 Jan 1862	Birth of Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher
150	10 Jan 1862	Death of Samuel Colt, American inventor and firearms manufacturer who popularised the revolver
150	18 Jan 1862	Death of John Tyler, 10th President of the United States
150	19 Jan 1862	American Civil War - the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky. The first significant Union victory
150	23 Jan 1862	Birth of David Hilbert, German mathematician who reduced geometry to a series of axioms, and laid the foundations of functional analysis
150	24 Jan 1862	Birth of Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, best known for her stories about upper-class society

Download the complete chapter for January 2012

My head is buzzing with ideas after seeing that, and I'm sure yours must be too - and that's just January!
The Date-A-Base Book 2012 contains the complete lists for February to December as well.