2011

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2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It will mark the beginning of the new decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

New Zealand will hold the Rugby World Cup

January

• 1 January - Poland set to adopt the Euro.
• January 2 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
• January 3 - The 112th session of the United States Congress will convene on or around this date.
• January 4 - Partial solar eclipse

February

• February - Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
• February 6 - Super Bowl XLV
• February 18 - 10th anniversary of the crash leading to Dale Earnhardt's death.

March

• March 18 - NASA's Pluto probe New Horizons will cross the orbit of Uranus, after 5 years journey. This will be faster than Voyager 2, which spent 8 years.
• NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury.
• The remaining sections of Kyushu Shinkansen and Tōhoku Shinkansen, both Japanese high speed rail lines are scheduled to start services. When these tracks are completed, Aomori, (the northernmost part of Honshu Island), and Kagoshima, (the southernmost part of Kyushu Island), will both be linked by Shinkansen service through Tokyo.

April

• April 2-4 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
• April 8-21 - Cricket World Cup to be held in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
• April 24 - Easter will not have fallen this late since 1943.
• April 28 - The 400th anniversary of the establishment of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.

May

• May 5 - Elections for the Scottish Parliament and for the Welsh Assembly.
• May 6 - Singapore holds 11th general election
• May 17 - Canadian 2011 census

June

• June 1 - Partial solar eclipse.
• June 16 - Centenary of the establishment of De La Salle University-Manila in the Philippines.

July

• July 1 - Partial solar eclipse.
• July 1 - Start of the Polish presidency of the European Union.
• July - The International Olympic Committee is set to meet and decide the location of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• July - The 2011 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship will be held in a TBA location.

September

• September 11 - 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City and The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.

• September 15 - The deadline for the completion of all recommendations made during the 2005 US Base Realignment and Closure round.

October

• October 10 - The 100th anniversary of the National Day of the Republic of China.

November

• November 25 - Partial solar eclipse.

Unknown dates

• The Isle of Man will host the IV Commonwealth Youth Games.
• The Asian Winter Games will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• An Irish Presidential Election is due this year.
• The Egyptian Presidential Elections of 2011
• The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Central Television, Yorkshire Television and Anglia Television [1].
• Dublin Institute of Technology will complete its move to Grangegorman
• The DSM-V is tentatively scheduled to be published
• Microsoft Windows "Vienna" is scheduled for release.
• Rugby Union World Cup is scheduled to be held in New Zealand
• Scheduled completion of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, the largest infrastructure project in eastern Germany.
• Scheduled completion of the Freedom Tower in New York City.
• Possible start of manned test flights of both the Crew Exploration Vehicle and Ares I rocket.

Major religious holidays

• February 1 - Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places).
• March 20 - Spring Equinox, also known as Ostara.
• May 1 - 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.
• December 21 - Winter Solstice, also known as Yule.

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