* March 20 – In the German town Memmingen the pamphlet The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed is published, the first human rights related document written in Europe.

* Twelve Articles of Christian Belief ( 1526 )

This alludes to the Twelve Articles, considered to be the first written set of human rights in Europe, which were penned in Memmingen in 1525.

The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed was written ( probably by Schappeler and Sebastian Lotzer ) in early 1525.

It is believed that Schappeler and Sebastian Lotzer wrote The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed in early 1525.

Within two months of its initial publication in Memmingen, twenty-five thousand copies of the Twelve Articles had spread throughout Europe.

The Twelve Articles was a religious petition that utilized Luther's ideas to appeal for peasants ' rights.

It is believed that he wrote The Twelve Articles: The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed with Christoph Schappeler in 1525.

Arnold Jobst created the Higher Church Council 1613 in the Bentheim territory as the supreme spiritual authority below the counts, and also in that year the Reformed Church of Bentheim was created, comprising also the Twelve Articles.

Article 69 of the church order adopted by the Synod of Dordt states that: " In the churches only the 150 Psalms of David, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Songs of Mary, Zacharias, and Simeon, the Morning and Evening Hymns, and the Hymn of Prayer before the sermon shall be sung.

Twelve projects proposed by private groups are at the contract-negotiation stage, Gordon Boyce, director of relations with the voluntary agencies, said in a Washington interview.

Twelve spies are sent out into Canaan and come back to report to Moses.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

Twelve gold ( or yellow ) stars are centered in a circle ( the radius of which is a third of the length of the hoist ) upon a blue background.

The arena for the actions that would bring about this deep change are the Twelve Labors imposed on Heracles by Eurystheus.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.

To this end, he enacted Twelve Decrees that are remarkable for their liberalism and foresight.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol.

Some popular Christmas carols are " We Wish You a Merry Christmas ", " Deck the Halls ", " The Twelve Days of Christmas ", " Frosty the Snowman ", " Jingle Bells ", " Silver Bells ", " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ", and " O Holy Night ".

Benjamin Minor ( originally titled Book of the Twelve Patriarchs ) and Benjamin Major are Richard of Saint Victor's great works on contemplation.

These are the original Twelve Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous:

However, many of these new small communities failed, but some are growing like the Twelve Tribes Communities that started in the United States and have grown to many tribes around the world.

While references are anecdotal, it seems to be a tradition that morphed into early European Christian tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

* 449 BC: The Twelve Tables are promulgated to the people of Rome — the first public laws of the Roman Republic.

Har answers: Twelve are the Æsir of the race of gods.

The Matins service ( usually celebrated Thursday night ) is officially entitled, " The Office of the Holy and Redeeming Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ", and is commonly known as the " Matins of the Twelve Gospels ", because interspersed throughout the service are twelve Gospel readings which recount the entire Passion of Christ from the Last Supper to the sealing of the tomb.

XII. 22 Lying Lips are abomination to the Lord ", pp. 519 – 657 in South, R., Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions ( Second Edition ), Volume I, Printed by S. D.

* July 17 – Twelve Christian inhabitants of Scillium in Numidia are executed in Carthage ( also in North Africa ) ( known as the Scillitan Martyrs ) – they had refused to swear an oath to the Emperor.

Twelve of these essays are disputed over by some scholars, though the modern consensus is that Madison wrote essays Nos.

In Judaism, Obadiah is considered a “ later prophet ” and this Masoretic Text is chronologically placed in the Tanakh under the section Nevi ' im in the last category called The Twelve Prophets.

It is usually considered that bishops derive their authority from an unbroken, personal Apostolic Succession from the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

Zechariah (, " YHWH has remembered "; Zakariya < nowiki >'</ nowiki > or Zakkariya ; Zakharias ; ) was a person in the Hebrew Bible and traditionally considered the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Proclamation was especially authoritative because it was issued in the name of the three members of the First Presidency and the twelve members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, each of the fifteen signatories being considered by the LDS Church an apostle as well as a " prophet, seer, and revelator.

Even though today Mombasa is a very heterogeneous cultural mix, families associated with the Twelve Nations are still considered the original inhabitants of the city.

Twelve criteria for new stamps and postal stationery include that " events of historical significance shall be considered for commemoration only on anniversaries in multiples of 50 years.

Certain modern theologians suggest that both Leo and Dioscoros were orthodox in their agreement with Saint Cyrill's Twelve Chapters, even though both have been ( and still are ) considered heretical by certain individuals in the opposing sides.

As a consequence of the doctrine of perpetual virginity, which does not allow that Mary had children after Jesus, Jerome considered that the term " brother " of the Lord should be read " cousin ", and concluded that James " the brother of the Lord ," ( Gal. 1: 19 ) is therefore James, son of Alphaeus, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, as well as James, the son of Mary Cleophas.

Members of the First Presidency are not generally considered to be members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or holding the priesthood office of apostle, regardless of previous calling.

The Company ranks eighth in the order of precedence of Livery Companies ; as such it is considered one of the " Great Twelve City Livery Companies ".

Instead of a president-prophet, the Church of Christ is led by its Quorum of Twelve Apostles, with all members of that body being considered equal in precedence and authority.

However, in 1865, a majority of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church officially condemned Pratt's doctrinal declarations contained in The Seer, mostly because of Pratt's vocal opposition to the Adam-God theory ; thus, Pratt's views in the periodical are not considered authoritative.

In common with the Temple Lot church, the Elijah Message church rejects the office of President of the Church, being led instead by their Quorum of Twelve Apostles ; all members of that quorum are considered equal.

Often the epithet is the result of fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one: Poseidon Erechtheus, Artemis Orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant ; thus most Roman gods and goddesses, especially the Twelve Olympians, had traditional counterparts in Greek, Etruscan, and most other Mediterranean pantheons, e. g. Jupiter as head of the Olympian Gods with Zeus, but in specific cult places there may even be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity.

In 1970, Spirit started working on what is widely considered to be their best LP, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus.

As a body, the seventy in the LDS Church are considered to be equal in priesthood authority with the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Plato connected the Twelve Olympians with the twelve months, and implies that he considered Pluto one of the twelve in proposing that the final month be devoted to him and the spirits of the dead.

Unbeknownst to all, the original Master Mold is also programmed by the time-traveling Tanya Trask ( aka Madame Sanctity ), part of the Askani Sisterhood, with the mission to find and destroy The Twelve: a group of mutants that are linked to the rise of Apocalypse, which the ruthless Sanctity considered an event that must be stopped at all costs.

The Acts of Thomas and the Acts of Peter and the Twelve are often considered Gnostic texts.

As the centuries pass, the people of the Twelve Colonies generally considered the existence of Earth and the thirteenth tribe a myth.

As with all priesthood in the Community of Christ, members of the Council of Twelve are considered to be " called by God.

He proposed a circular route, dubbed " The Twelve Days of Wicklow ", which he considered to be " a journey comparable to that along the celebrated " Pennine Way " but I would say more varied than its north British counterpart ".

As a legislator, Young criticized the Halton School Board for approving Joyce Carol Oates's novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, for Grade Twelve English, against the wishes of parents who considered it obscene and overly violent.