2007
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2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
January
- January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria will join the European Union, Slovenia to adopt the Euro.
- Irish becomes an official and a working language of the European Union.
- January 1 - Change of ISBN numbering system to 13 digit code.
- January 17 - January 27 - 2007 Winter Universiade in Turin, Italy
- January 24- NHL All-Star Game to be held in Dallas, Texas. This will be the first NHL All-Star Game since 2004, and the first to be held on a weeknight since 1989.
- Worldwide consumer release of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista.
- Worldwide consumer release of Microsoft's new office productivity suite, Microsoft Office 2007
February
- February 3 - February 18 - Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 in Åre, Sweden
- February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be held in Miami, Florida.
- February 25 - The 79th Academy Awards are scheduled to take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
- February 28- the New Horizons probe (the first probe to visit Pluto) is expected to pass through the Jovian system at 21 km/s (47,000 mph), using a gravitational slingshot to change its trajectory towards Pluto.
- February- NBA All-Star Game to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada. This will mark the first time a city without an NBA franchise has hosted the game.
March
- March - Predicted launch of the first commercially available Flexible display screens, by electronics company Philips.
- March 2 to March 4 - The 29th European Indoor Athletics Championships will be held at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, United Kingdom [link]
- March 3 / March 4 - Total lunar eclipse
- March 11 - Daylight saving time in the US and most of Canada will be extended another four to five weeks, from the second Sunday of March to the first Sunday of November to mimimize the effects of spring fever and Seasonal Affective Disorder.
- March 11 to April 28 - 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
- March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
- March 31 to April 2 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
April
- April 22 Presidential Election in France.
- April 26 - 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown, Virginia, US, will be celebrated, with an anticipated visit from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, who is the direct descendant and heir to King James I of England, under whose authority the Jamestown settlement was founded.
May
- May 2 - Call on general elections to be held on Guatemala on September 2, 2007.
- May 3 - Scottish parliamentary election, 2007 and the Welsh Assembly Election 2007
- May 6 - Presidential Election in France.
- May 12 - The final of the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Helsinki, Finland.
- May 19 - The 23rd annual National Science Olympiad tournament will be held in Wichita State University.
- May 23 - UEFA Champions League final to be held in the 5-Star Athens Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece.
- May 26 - June 8 - The Isle of Man TT races will celebrate their centenary.
- May 28 - June 2 - The Urdd National Eisteddfod will be held in Carmarthenshire, South Wales
- Jacques Chirac's term as President of France will end.
June
- June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus at only 300 km altitude on its way to Mercury orbit.
- A general election is due in the Republic of Ireland.
July
- July 1 - FIFA World Youth Championship scheduled to be held in Canada until July 22
- July 7 - The 2014 Winter Olympics host city will be announced at the 119th General Meeting of International Olympic Committee in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The three candidates cities are Sochi, Salzburg and PyeongChang.
- July 7 - The 14th Football Asian Cup scheduled to be held until July 29, co-hosted by 4 nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam) for the first time in its history.
- July 13 to July 29 - The 2007 Pan American Games will be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- July 27 to August 8 - The 21st World Scout Jamboree will take place at Chelmsford's Hylands Park in Essex.
- July - the U.S. President's Trade Promotion Authority is set to expire.
- July - Japan upper house election, 121 of the 242 seats in the House of Councillors will be elected.
August
- August 1 - Scouting's Sunrise - 100th year of scouting begins - 100th anniversary of the Brownsea Island Scout camp in England, where Robert Baden-Powell introduced scouting to the world.
- August 2 - Survivors of a plane crash in 2005 (Paris-Toronto) will reunite for one day in Toronto.
- August 4 - August 11 - The National Eisteddfod of Wales will be held at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales
- August 8 - August 18 - Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand
- August 24 - September 2 - The 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics is scheduled to be held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan
September
- September 2 - General elections to be held in Guatemala, in that elections it will be elected president and vice-president, congressmen, municipal mayors and PARLACEN representatives for Guatemala.
- September 7 - 6th Rugby Union World Cup will be held in France until October 20. 3 matches will be held in Cardiff, Wales, as well as 2 matches in Edinburgh, Scotland out of 48 matches.
- September 11 - Partial solar eclipse.
- September - APEC meetings scheduled to be held in Sydney, Australia.
October
- October 21 - Parliamentary election in the Canadian province of Ontario
- October - The ten countries who joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 will join the Schengen treaty.
- October/November - A federal election is due to be held in Australia
Unknown dates
- India's 10th Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) comes to an end and the 11th plan (2007-2012) starts.
- The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[link] is scheduled to be switched on.
- Uranus' orbit positions it so that the Sun shines directly from above on a spot located at its equator
- The new Wembley Stadium is expected to open.
- The Mark III Ford Mondeo will be launched.
- Scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
- Pervez Musharraf's term as President of Pakistan legally ends.
- 2007 will be the year of the reappearance of the 12th Imam or Hidden Imam- according to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran (Chicago Tribune, December 19, 2005).
- The 6th European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
- Presidential Election in Argentina.
- The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 will be held in China.
- Schönefeld International Airport in Berlin will be renamed Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, and Tegel International Airport will close.
- Scheduled completion of Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai.
- US Interstate 99 will be extended from its current terminus in Bald Eagle, PA to Interstate 80 outside Bellefonte, PA.
- The Hubble Space Telescope's batteries are set to run out of power, if action is not taken by NASA.
- The deadline for bids to host the 2016 Summer Olympics will probably be this year.
- First Type 45 destroyer, "HMS Daring", enters service with the British Royal Navy.
- The Palm, Jebel Ali, part of the Palm Islands development, is expected to be completed this year in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- The BBC World Service is to launch a television news channel in Arabic.
- Complete integration between the Andean Community and Mercosur into the South American Community of Nations.
- Annual G8 meetings in Bad Doberan-Heiligendamm, Germany
- The third Chinese manned space mission Shenzhou 7 is scheduled with the first Chinese space walk ever to be performed.
- Dr. Jack Kevorkian, also known as "Dr. Death", will be eligible for parole.
- General elections in Kenya
- America West Airlines and US Airways's operations are combined.
- The National Hockey League's (NHL) Stanley Cup will get rid of the oldest ring on the trophy and send it to the NHL Hall of Fame so that a new ring can be added.
- Michael Jackson is scheduled to release his first studio album since his 2005 child molestation trial, and his first studio album in 6 years.
- Social Distortion is scheduled to release their follow-up to 2004's Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll. It will be their first release with new bassist Brent Harding.
Fiction
- The Transformers arrive on Earth (The Transformers).
- The plot of Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters likely begins on July 12 of this year.
- The "Tanker Chapter" of [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]] takes place on or after August 8 of this year. The events lead up to the deaths of well over 100 US Marines.
- In the Mega Man series, Dr. Thomas Light is awarded the Nobel Prize for the creation of the Robot Master in this year (2007). Dr. Wily's jealousy leads him to reprogram the industrial robot masters one year later (2008, officially December 200X) starting the beginning of the long running series of games.
- In the video game, Ghost Recon 2, this is the year when a second Korean war starts.
- In the television series, Odyssey 5 the earth explodes on August 7 of this year and the consciousness of the 5 surviving crew members of the space shuttle Odyssey are sent back in time by a being known as The Seeker to prevent the earth's destruction.
- The popular PC game Battlefield 2 takes place in this year.
- The events of American television series Wild Palms take place during this year.
- The events of video game [[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory]] take place in the summer of this year.
- The events of the anime series Macross Zero take place in this year, including the testing of the VF-0 variable fighter.
- The events of the movie The Jacket take place during this year.
- The World, a fictional MMORPG in the .hack anime/video game series, is released. it is the first MMORPG since the Pluto's Kiss incident.
- The mod for Battlefield 1942 Silent Heroes, where Sweden invades Norway, takes place in this year.
- Certain events from the Forever War take place in this year.
- April 1 of this year, kitchen appliances will make their move to take over the world, according to Jane Lane in the MTV show Daria.
- Season 6 of the show 24 takes place this year.
- The Tom Clancy video game Rainbow Six Three takes place in this year.
- The Doctor Who episodes School Reunion, Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel take place between January 30 and February 2 of this year, the latter two in an alternate reality.
- * The episodes Army of Ghosts and Doomsday take place on an unspecified date after The Age of Steel
- This is the year that Andrew Sachs' character Ernest in the 1980 sitcom Dead Ernest was initially scheduled by God to die ("Lyme Regis, 2007, in bed")
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