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
- 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
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.[1][2]
- 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.
- Toontown's yearly Bloodsucker Invasions and Trick or Treating
November
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.[7][relevant?]
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. (November 13, 2007). "Neptune: Facts & Figures". NASA. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Anonymous (February 9, 2007). "Horizons Output for Neptune 2010–2011". Retrieved February 25, 2008.—Numbers generated using the Solar System Dynamics Group, Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System.
- ^ "Comet Orbit Home Page". Kazuo Kinoshita. Retrieved March 25, 2007.
- ^ [dead link]"CNN article relating to Californians plan to have largest Solar Plant". June 9, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
- ^ "NASA article relating to Solar Maximum". March 12, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
- ^ IPv4 Address Report
- ^ Lublinski, Jan (28 March 2010). "Das Ende des Urkilos: Warum das Maß aller Massen ausgedient hat". Deutschlandfunk. Template:De icon.