* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

*" Enlightenment ", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

* Enlightenment ( soundtrack album ), the soundtrack of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

As the 2012 Northern Hemisphere Summer started to draw to a close, NOAA stated that El Niño conditions are likely to develop in August or September.

In 2012, the canoe and kayak slalom events of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games took place in the town of Waltham Cross, within the borough of Broxbourne.

The first Summer Youth Olympics were in Singapore in 2010 and the first Winter Youth Olympics were held in Innsbruck in 2012.

* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, United Kingdom.

* The London 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted The Who manager Bill Curbishley about Moon performing at the games, 34 years after his death.

Leipzig was the German candidate for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was unsuccessful.

In May 2012, Land's End received widespread attention as the starting point of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.

El Moutawakel is a member of the International Olympic Committee, and she was the president of evaluation commissions for the selection of the host city for the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

New Order performed at Hyde Park with Blur and The Specials to celebrate the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

In 2011 the United Kingdom's Royal Mint minted a fifty pence coin depicting a swimmer and another for the triathlon, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to be held in London.

The sound itself was heard during a segment of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played to the stadium.

In August 2012, The Pogues embarked on a 30th anniversary Summer 2012 8-city European tour scheduled from 4 August 2012 at the Stockton Weekender Festival in Stockton-on-Tees, UK to 11 & 12 September 2012 at L ' Olympia, Paris, two shows to be filmed and recorded for a live album and DVD.

For the 2012 Summer Olympics, there will be five events for both men and women.

The Madison was a Summer Olympic event for men from 2000-2008, but was dropped ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

His work from Chariots of Fire was heard during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

This seven-judge procedure has been modified as of the 2012 London Olympics: rather than eliminating one high and one low award and then reducing the total by as in previous international events, the two highest awards and the two lowest are disregarded, leaving three to be summed and multiplied by the difficulty rating.

The 2012 London Olympics saw the first use of eleven judges.

The score is computed similarly to the scores from other diving events, but has been modified starting with the 2012 London Olympics for the use of the larger judging panels.

On 6 July 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

The Underground does not run 24 hours a day ( except at New Year and major public events – such as the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London Olympics in 2012 ) because most lines have only two tracks ( one in each direction ) and therefore need to close at night for cleaning and planned maintenance work.

" The IOC rejected an international campaign in support of a minute of silence at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics in honor of the Israeli victims of the massacre.

On the 26th July, 2012, she carried the Olympic torch through Westminster, London, for the London Olympics.

Starting in 2012, the points race is one of the omnium events in the Olympics.

Unification Church-owned Yeongpyeong Resort, The Ocean Resort and Pineridge Resort hosted Expo 2012 in May 2012, and will sponsor the 2018 Winter Olympics and Formula One.

The soundtrack's single, " Titles ", also reached the top of the American Billboard Hot 100 chart and was used as the background music at the London 2012 Olympics winners ' medal presentation ceremonies.

In January 2012, Aon announced that headquarters would be moved from Chicago to London.

The company moved its headquarters from Chicago to London in 2012.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.

They are being used for the London 2012 relay.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2012.

* Jeremy Naydler, Gardening as a Sacred Art ( London, Floris Books, 2012 ).

In September, 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland.

Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, Heathrow is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world ( as of 2012 ) in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe.

Prince Harry being driven through London during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 5 June 2012

On 12 August 2012, The Prince represented his grandmother, the Queen, at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

* 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres ( 1, 020 ft ).