2011 according to wikipedia what 2011 means this year?
2011 according to wikipedia what 2011 means this year?
"2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2011th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; 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.[1]
January
January 1 – Start of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union.
January 1 – Estonia is set to adopt the euro.
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.
The United States extradition treaty with El Salvador goes into effect.
Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
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.
[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 five-year journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took eight years.
[edit]April
April 29 – Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton will take place in Westminster Abbey on St. Catherine's Day.
Pakistan will launch its first space satellite.
The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan.
[edit]May
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
[edit]June
June 1 – Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic.
June 15 – Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
[edit]July
The Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the minor planet 4 Vesta during July. The exact date remains uncertain.
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.[2][3]
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 0.0601 astronomical unit (about 5,589,300 miles (8,995,100 km)) of Earth.[4]
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.
[edit]October
Opening of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
[edit]November
November 25 – Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica.
[edit]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.[5]
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).[6]
The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.[7]
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.[8][relevant? – discuss]
Computer games on the subjects of climate change, medical innovation and women's rights will be developed in 2011.[9]
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 (Western and Orthodox).
May 1 – 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.
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.
November 26 – Islamic New Year.
December 20 – Chanukah.
December 22 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
December 25 – Western Christmas.
In fiction
[edit]Film
Killer Tattoo (2001)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
[edit]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.
[edit]Computer and video games
Max Payne 3 (2010)
Duke Nukem Forever
Heavy Rain (2010)
Persona 4 (2008)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
[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 in shelters survive the impact on Earth.
References
^ "United Nations Observances". United Nations. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
^ Munsell, K.; Smith, H.; Harvey, S. (November 13, 2007). "Neptune: Facts & Figures". NASA. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
^ 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.
^ "45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova". Kazuo Kinoshita. 9 November 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
^[dead link]"CNN article relating to Californians plan to have largest Solar Plant". June 9, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2007.[dead link]
^ "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 (German).
^ According to Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development of the Institute for the Future, as reported in the New York Times, November 9, 2010.
wo looks like quite a busy year ahead in 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
"2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2011th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; 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.[1]
January
January 1 – Start of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union.
January 1 – Estonia is set to adopt the euro.
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.
The United States extradition treaty with El Salvador goes into effect.
Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
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.
[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 five-year journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which took eight years.
[edit]April
April 29 – Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton will take place in Westminster Abbey on St. Catherine's Day.
Pakistan will launch its first space satellite.
The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan.
[edit]May
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
[edit]June
June 1 – Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic.
June 15 – Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
[edit]July
The Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the minor planet 4 Vesta during July. The exact date remains uncertain.
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.[2][3]
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 0.0601 astronomical unit (about 5,589,300 miles (8,995,100 km)) of Earth.[4]
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.
[edit]October
Opening of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
[edit]November
November 25 – Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica.
[edit]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.[5]
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).[6]
The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.[7]
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.[8][relevant? – discuss]
Computer games on the subjects of climate change, medical innovation and women's rights will be developed in 2011.[9]
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 (Western and Orthodox).
May 1 – 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.
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.
November 26 – Islamic New Year.
December 20 – Chanukah.
December 22 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.
December 25 – Western Christmas.
In fiction
[edit]Film
Killer Tattoo (2001)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
[edit]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.
[edit]Computer and video games
Max Payne 3 (2010)
Duke Nukem Forever
Heavy Rain (2010)
Persona 4 (2008)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
[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 in shelters survive the impact on Earth.
References
^ "United Nations Observances". United Nations. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
^ Munsell, K.; Smith, H.; Harvey, S. (November 13, 2007). "Neptune: Facts & Figures". NASA. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
^ 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.
^ "45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova". Kazuo Kinoshita. 9 November 2008. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
^[dead link]"CNN article relating to Californians plan to have largest Solar Plant". June 9, 2006. Retrieved July 14, 2007.[dead link]
^ "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 (German).
^ According to Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development of the Institute for the Future, as reported in the New York Times, November 9, 2010.
wo looks like quite a busy year ahead in 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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