2012 is almost over. To wave off the past year, Google have put together a video review of the year – highlighting the major events that gripped our attention across the globe during the last 12 months.

We celebrated the London 2012 Olympic games, we voted in Barack Obama for a second term, we said goodbye to Whitney Houston and millions of us watched as Felix Baumgartner leapt from space to break the sound barrier.

This was 2012: