JANUARY
 ● Jan. 1: Hungary takes over the sixmonth rotating European Union presidency
● Jan. 1: Estonia enters the eurozone
● Jan. 1: Brazil’s new president Dilma Rousseff takes office
● Jan. 1: France takes over the presidency of the Group of Eight (G8)
● Jan. 5: New U.S. Congress opens, with opposition Republicans holding a majority in the House of Representatives
● Jan. 9: Referendum on the independence of southern Sudan
● Jan. 12: Haiti marks first anniversary of the earthquake
● Jan. 19: Barack Obama-Hu Jintao summit in Washington
● Jan. 17-20: The world future energy summit in Abu Dhabi
● Jan. 26-30: The 41st World Economic Forum in Davos
● Jan. 31: Presidential election in Niger |
FEBRUARY
 ● Feb. 3: Start of Lunar New Year — the Year of the Rabbit — in the Chinese calendar
● Feb. 6-11: The 9th World Social Forum in Dakar
● Feb. 13: 53rd Grammy Awards
● Feb. 18: Presidential election in Uganda
● Feb. 27: The 83rd Academy Awards (Oscars), Hollywood
● Feb. 7: Inauguration of new Haitian president
● Feb. 10-20: Annual Berlin International Film Festival opens
● Feb. 16: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s 69th birthday
● Feb. 17: Kosovo marks 3rd anniversary of independence from Serbia
● Feb. 17-19: International Olympic Committee officials visit South Korea’s Olympic bid site for 2018 Winter Olympics
● Feb 27: Presentation of Oscar motion picture awards |
MARCH
 ● March 2: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev turns 80
● March 4-8: Rio Carnival
● March 5: Opening of the annual session of China’s National Legislature
● March 6: Estonia holds parliamentary elections
● March 7-11: International Atomic Energy Agency meeting
● March 15: Arab League holds its first summit meeting in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and the fall of Saddam Hussein
● March 20: Holi, the Hindu festival of colors in India
● March 21-27: World Figure Skating Championships
● March 27: State election in the southwestern German state of
Baden-Wuerttemberg |
APRIL
 ● April 9: Nigerian presidential election
● April 10: Presidential election in Peru
● April 12: Fiftieth anniversary of flight into orbit of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space
● April 15: 99th anniversary of late President Kim Il-sung’s birth.
● April 16: Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
● April 19: Passover in Jerusalem
● April 21-28: Shanghai Auto Show
● April 23-29: ASEAN summit in Jakarta
● April 24:Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians celebrate Easter.
● April, 26: 25th anniversary of explosion of reactor at Chernobyl nuclear plant.
● April 29: Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton get married at London’s Westminster Abbey |
MAY
 ● May 3: World Press Freedom day
● May 5: Britain holds elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh National Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly and local English councils.
● May 14: Germany hosts the Eurovision song contest.
● May 11-22: Cannes International Film Festival in France
● May 21: The Life Ball, Europe’s largest HIV/AID charity gala, takes place in and around Vienna’s city hall. |
JUNE
 ● June: G8 summit in Nice, France
● June 2: OPEC meeting in Vienna
● June 4-5: Pope Benedict XVI visits predominantly Roman Catholic Croatia for first time
● June 6-10: International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting in Vienna
● June 8-9: World Economic Forum on Eastern Europe and Central Asia
● June 12: Turkey tentatively scheduled to hold general elections.
● June 20: U.N. World Refugee Day
● June 23: Spring and summer fashion shows in Paris |
JULY
● July: The planned start of the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan
● July 1: Poland takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union
● July 1: 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party
● July 2-3: Monaco’s Prince Albert II marries Charlene Wittstock
● July 5: Foundation in Caracas of a new Americas bloc including all nations but the United States and Canada
● July 6: The International Olympic Committee announces the site of the 2018 Winter Olympics
● July 11: World Population Day
● July 13: Worldwide release of the last Harry Potter film |
AUGUST
● Aug. 16-21: World Youth Day in Madrid
● Aug. 6: 66th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
● International Day of the World’s Indigenous People.
● Aug. 15: Korea’s 66th Liberation Day celebrating independence from Japan’s colonial rule
● Aug. 19: World Humanitarian Day
● Aug. 27-Sept. 4: World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South
Korea |
SEPTEMBER
 ● Sept. 11: World Trade Center memorial to open in New York on 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States
● Sept. 24-26: Annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank
● Sept. 13: U.N. General Assembly 66th session.
● Sept. 15: Frankfurt International Motor Show. Through Sept. 25
● Sept. 22-25: Pope Benedict XVI makes a state visit to his native Germany |
OCTOBER
 ● October: Announcement of annual Nobel Prizes in Stockholm and Oslo
● Oct. 2: Birth anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi and International Day of Non-violence.
● Oct. 5: Anniversary of the popular uprising that led to the ouster of Serbia’s Sloban Milosevic in 2000
● Oct. 10: North Korea’s 66th anniversary of the founding of Workers’ Party
● Oct. 12-16: Frankfurt book fair
● Oct. 23: Elections for Swiss federal parliament.
● Oct. 26: India’s Diwali — the Hindu festival of lights
● Oct. 28-30: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia |
NOVEMBER
● Nov. 12-13: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Honolulu, Hawaii
● Nov. 3-4: G-20 summit meeting in France
● Nov. 17: World AIDS Day |
DECEMBER
● Dec. 15-17: Ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization
● Dec. 2-11: Tokyo Motor Show. Through Dec. 11
● Dec. 4: Tentative date for Russia’s parliamentary elections which will set the scene for a presidential election in March 2012
● Dec. 10: Human Rights Day
● Dec. 25: Twentieth anniversary of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stepping down and transferring power to Boris Yeltsin, leading to the formal collapse of the Soviet Union the next day
● Dec. 25: Christmas Day.
● Dec. 31: Deadline for all U.S. troops to be out of Iraq |
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