October 12th (1666) was a Tuesday. It's the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 80 days left to the end of the year.
October 12th Holidays in History
» Christian Feast Day:
» Heribert of Cologne (private feast day)
» Wilfrid named Wilfrid of Ripon
» Edith Cavell, Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
» October 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus named Columbus-related observances:
» Columbus Day (United States)
» Piomingo Day (Chickasaw Nation)
» Public holidays in Mexico named Descubrimiento de América (Mexico)
» Día de la Hispanidad or Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)
» Día de la Raza, "Day of the Race" (Latin America)
» Día de la Resistencia Indígena, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (Venezuela)
» Día de las Américas, "Day of the Americas" (Uruguay)
» Día de las Culturas, "Day of the Cultures" (Costa Rica)
» Discovery Day (the Bahamas)
» Freethought Day (United States)
» Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968.