2011

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Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

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Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works - Introductions v • d • e

2011 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2011 MMXI
Ab urbe condita	2764
Armenian calendar	1460 ԹՎ ՌՆԿ
Bahá'í calendar	167 – 168
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
- Vikram Samvat	2066 – 2067
- 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
v • d • e

2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. According to the North Korean Juche calendar, this will be Juche year 100. This year will also be the 100th of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Era year (民國100年).

Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Predicted and scheduled events 2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 October 2.10 November 2.11 December 2.12 Unknown dates 3 Major religious holidays 4 In fiction 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 4.3 Computer and video games 4.4 Literature 5 References

[edit] Pronunciation

See also: Year pronunciation

There is a debate^[who?] as to how specific years of the 21st century, including 2011, should be pronounced in English. Although the majority of English-speakers say "two thousand (and) X" for any specific year post–1999, it is often suggested^{[by whom?]} that the continuation of this type of pronunciation for the entire 21st century would be inappropriate or unnatural, given the alternative "twenty X" option.

Many experts^[who?] agree that majority usage of "two thousand (and) X" is a result of influences from the Y2K hype, as well as the way "2001" was pronounced in the influential 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Experts^[who?] also suggest that since former years such as 1805 and 1905 were commonly pronounced as "eighteen oh" or "nineteen oh" five, the year 2005 should naturally have been pronounced as "twenty oh-five".^[1]

Many people, ranging from linguistic and academic experts to Internet bloggers, predict that the "twenty X" pronunciation method will eventually prevail, but a time frame as to when this change will occur often differs. The year 2010 is suggested by many,^[2][3] while 2011^[1] and 2013 are popular as well. The latest time frame for change is usually placed at 2020^[1] or 2100.

According to a recent press release, David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, has predicted that the change will occur in 2011, to "twenty eleven", explaining that the way people pronounce years depends on rhythm, rather than logic. Crystal claims that the rhythm or "flow" of "two thousand (and) ten", beats out that of "twenty ten", but the flow of "twenty eleven" beats out "two thousand (and) eleven".^[1] Alternatively, Ian Brookes, editor-in-chief of Chambers Dictionary, suggests the change will occur in 2013. The UK Times has suggested 2020 as a final time frame for the change, saying "If people can have “twenty-twenty” vision, then surely they should also live in the year “twenty twenty”."^[1]

It is noted that, the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, taking place in Vancouver, Canada, are being officially referred to as "the twenty-ten Olympics". The London olympics, taking place in 2012, are also being officially referred to by London 2012 as "the twenty-twelve Olympics". Chicago 2016, which operates the official Chicago bid for the 2016 games, refers to the "twenty-sixteen games".

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

[edit] January

• January 1 - Start of the Hungarian presidency of the European Union.
• January 1 - Croatia is set to join the European Union.^[4]
• January 1 - Estonia is set to adopt the euro.
• January - The US extradition treaty with El Salvador goes into effect.
• January - Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
• January 1 - The estate tax in the United States, after its gradual repeal through 2010, returns in full force.^[5]
• January 2 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
• January 4 - Partial solar eclipse. ^[6]
• January 30 - The 2011 Asian Winter Games will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan until February 6.

[edit] February

• February - Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• February - 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.

[edit] 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 5 year journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took 8 years.
• March 27 - Census will be held in United Kingdom.^[7]

[edit] April

• April 8–21 - Cricket World Cup to be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

[edit] May

• May - Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
• May 17 - Canadian 2011 census.

[edit] June

• June 1 - Partial solar eclipse in the arctic ^[8]
• June 15 - Total Lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East ^[9]
• June 26 – July 17 - The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in Germany.

[edit] July

• July - The International Olympic Committee will decide the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• July - The 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship will be held in a TBA location.
• July 1 - Start of the Polish presidency of the European Union.
• July 1 - Partial solar eclipse off the coast of Antarctica ^[10]
• July 12 - Neptune completes its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.^[11][12]
• July 15–26 - Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China
• July 24 - Analog television broadcasts will cease in Japan.
• July 27 – August 7 - Sweden will host the 22nd World Scout Jamboree.

[edit] August

• August 15 - The comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková will pass within 0.0601AU (about 5,589,300 miles) of Earth.^[13]
• August 15–21 - Madrid, Spain hosts the XXVI edition of World Youth Day
• August 28 – September 4 - The 2011 World Rowing Championships will be held at Lake Bled, Bled, Slovenia.
• August 31 - Canada will switch off its analogue television signals and transmit only digital television signals.

[edit] October

• October - Guadalajara will host the XVI Pan American Games.
• October - 2011 Rugby World Cup to be held in New Zealand.
• October 6 - Ontario general election.

[edit] November

• November 1 - South Africa begins television broadcasts in digital. Analogue signal cut. New pay-TV services and full digital implementation scheduled for April 2010.

• November 25 - Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica^[14]

[edit] December

• Unknown date – 150 Greenwich Street or 4 World Trade Center, will be the first skyscraper completed at World Trade Center site. It will be 975 feet tall with thee completion of 1 World Trade Center 2 years later.
• December 10 – Total lunar eclipse, visible mainly in Asia, Australia, and Alaska^[15]
• December 31 – All U.S. Troops are scheduled to leave Iraq.

[edit] Unknown dates

• California will open the world's largest solar power plant.^[16]
• Several electric vehicles are expected to enter the U.S. market, perhaps most notably the Tesla model S and BYD e6.
• Completion of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
• Predicted Solar maximum (also predicted by other research groups for 2012).^[17]
• New Zealand Census to take place
• The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.^[18]
• The Isle of Man will host the IV Commonwealth Youth Games.
• 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.
• Greece will conduct a census (the last one was done in 2001, and one census is made every ten years)

[edit] Major religious holidays

• February 2 - Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day
• March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day.
• March 20 - Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara
• April 24 - Easter
• May 11 - Beltane, a Cross-quarter day.
• June 21 - Summer solstice, also known as Midsummer or Litha
• August 1 - Lammas, a Cross-quarter day
• September 23 - Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon
• November 1 - Samhain, a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new year
• November 6 - Eid al-Adha, a religious holiday in Islam
• December 25 - Christmas

[edit] In fiction

[edit] Film

• The 2001 Taiwanese film Millennium Mambo where a woman narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier.
• The 2003 film Revengers Tragedy is set in a dystopian Liverpool in the year 2011, following the aftermath of a natural disaster which has destroyed the southern half of Great Britain.

[edit] Television

• In the Heroes television series, several different potential futures occur in the year 2011.
  • In one, the antagonistic Sylar poses as the President of the United States, aiming to kill all others with supernatural abilities.
  • In another, 93% of the world population is wiped out by the fictional Shanti virus.
  • In a third, those with supernatural abilities are hunted by the government.
  • In a fourth, supernatural abilities are very common and easily obtainable.
• In the Aeon Flux television series and film, 99% of the world's population is wiped out by a mysterious virus in the year 2011.
• The Sarah Connor Chronicles Judgment Day is predicted to take place on April 21.

[edit] Computer and video games

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (2008)
• Persona 4 (2008)

[edit] 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 inexplicably survive the impact on Earth; the reason how and the means these few survived amongst the ruins of Earth is not stated.

[edit] References