2011
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2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2011th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 2nd of the 2010s decade.
The United Nations has designated 2011 the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 — Start of the Hungarian presidency of the European Union.
- January 1 — Estonia is set to adopt the euro.
- January — The United States extradition treaty with El Salvador goes into effect.
- January — Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
- January 2 — Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
- January 4 — Partial solar eclipse visible over most of Europe, the Arabian peninsula, North Africa, and Western Asia.
February
March
April
- Pakistan will launch its first space satellite.
- The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan.
May
June
July
August
September
- September 9-October 23 — New Zealand will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup
October
- Opening of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
November
December
Unknown dates
Major holidays
- January 1 — New Year's Day
- January 7 (6 in Armenia) — Orthodox Christmas
- January 14 — Makar Sankranti, Hinduism
- February 2 — Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day
- February 3 — Chinese New Year
- March 8 — Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season
- March 9 — Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)
- March 20 — Holi
- March 21 — (Northern hemisphere) Vernal Equinox, also known as Ostara
- April 18 — Passover begins at sundown
- April 24 — Easter (Orthodox and Western)
- May 11 — Beltane, a Cross-quarter day
- June 7 — Shavuot begins
- June 21 — Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha
- August 1 — Ramadhan Begins — Islam
- August 1 — Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
- August 31 — Eid al-Fitr, a religious holiday — Islam
- September 23 — (Northern hemisphere) Autumnal Equinox, also known as Mabon
- September 28 — Rosh Hashana begins at sundown
- October 7 — Yom Kippur begins at sundown
- October 26 — Diwali, a religious holiday in India
- November 1 — Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year
- November 6 — Eid al-Adha, a religious holiday in Islam
- November 26 — Islamic New Year
- December 20 — Chanukah
- December 22 — Winter solstice / Yule
- December 25 — Western Christmas
In fiction
Television
- In the television series FlashForward episode "Future Shock", the date March 14, 2011 is seen on a note during a blackout.
- The Heroes television series visits 2011 in several different potential futures.
- In the Aeon Flux film, 99% of the world's population is wiped out by a mysterious virus in the year 2011.
- In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles television series "Judgment Day" is predicted to take place on April 21.
Computer and video games
Literature
- In K. A. Applegate's Remnants book series, 2011 is the year life on Earth becomes extinct after a 73-mile-wide asteroid nicknamed "The Rock" impacts Portugal. Eighty other humans are placed in a shuttle named the Mayflower mere hours before impact and put into artificial hibernation, while a handful of humans in shelters survive the impact on Earth.
Other
In 2011 Tallinn and Turku are designated as European capitals of culture by the European Union.
References
- ↑ Munsell, K.; Smith, H.; Harvey, S. (November 13, 2007). "Neptune: Facts & Figures". NASA. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Facts. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
- ↑ Anonymous (February 9, 2007). "Horizons Output for Neptune 2010–2011". http://home.comcast.net/~kpheider/nept2011.txt. Retrieved February 25, 2008. —Numbers generated using the Solar System Dynamics Group, Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System.
- ↑ "Comet Orbit Home Page". Kazuo Kinoshita. http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/pcmtn/0045p.htm. Retrieved March 25, 2007.
- ↑ "CNN article relating to Californians plan to have largest Solar Plant". June 9, 2006. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/07/09/solar.california.reut/index.html?iref=newssearch. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
- ↑ "NASA article relating to Solar Maximum". March 12, 2006. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10mar_stormwarning.htm. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
- ↑ IPv4 Address Report
- ↑ Lublinski, Jan (28 March 2010). "Das Ende des Urkilos: Warum das Maß aller Massen ausgedient hat". Deutschlandfunk. http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/wib/1147745/ (German).