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Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun
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Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states
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Other topics
Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works and introductions categories
Works – Introductions
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2011 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
2011
MMXI
Ab urbe condita
2763
Armenian calendar
1460
ԹՎ ՌՆԿ
Bahá'í calendar
167 – 168
Bengali calendar
1418
Berber calendar
2961
Buddhist calendar
2555
Burmese calendar
1373
Byzantine calendar
7519 – 7520
Chinese calendar
庚寅年十一月廿七日
(4647/4707-11-27)
— to —
辛卯年十二月初七日
(4648/4708-12-7)
Coptic calendar
1727 – 1728
Ethiopian calendar
2003 – 2004
Hebrew calendar
5771 – 5772
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat
2067 – 2068
- Shaka Samvat
1933 – 1934
- Kali Yuga
5112 – 5113
Holocene calendar
12011
Iranian calendar
1389 – 1390
Islamic calendar
1432 – 1433
Japanese calendar
Heisei 23
(平成23年)
Korean calendar
4344
Thai solar calendar
2554
Unix time
1293840000 – 1325375999
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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.
Contents 1 Predicted and scheduled events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates 2 Major holidays 3 In fiction 3.1 Television 3.2 Computer and video games 3.3 Literature 4 References // 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 19 February – 2 April — 2011 Cricket World Cup will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. 26 February - The Space Shuttle will undertake its final mission before retirement. March March 18 — NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury. March 18 — NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Uranus, after a five-year journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took eight years. April Pakistan will launch its first space satellite. The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan. May May—Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky. June June 1 — Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic. June 15 — Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East. July July 1 — Start of the Polish presidency of the European Union. July 1 — Partial solar eclipse off the coast of Antarctica. July 6 —The International Olympic Committee will decide the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics. July 12 – Neptune completes its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.12 July 27–August 7 — Sweden will host the 22nd World Scout Jamboree. August August 15 — The comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková will pass within 0.0601 astronomical unit (about 5,589,300 miles) of Earth.3 August 15–21 — XXVI World Youth Day will be held in Madrid, Spain. 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 November 25 — Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica. December December 10 — Total lunar eclipse, visible mainly in Asia, Australia and Alaska. December 31 — All United States troops are scheduled to leave Iraq. Unknown dates California will open the world's largest solar power plant.4 Several electric vehicles are expected to enter the U.S. market, perhaps most notably the Tesla Model S and BYD e6. Predicted solar maximum (also predicted by other research groups for 2012).5 The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.6 The Nord Stream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany will be completed. Blue Waters, a petascale supercomputer being designed and built as a joint effort between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and IBM is expected to be completed in this year. Bulgaria and Romania will fully implement the Schengen Agreement. A new definition of the kilogram, based on universal constants, is likely to be announced at the 24th General Conference on Weights and Measures.7relevant? – discuss 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 Max Payne 3 (2010) Heavy Rain (2010) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) Persona 4 (2008) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010) 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. 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. ^dead link"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". 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