2011 (MMXI) is a common year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and is the current year in Oceania, East Asia including China, and Eastern Russia, while the rest of the world is in 2010. It is the 2011th year of the Common Era/Anno Domini designation; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the second year of 2010s decade.
The United Nations has designated 2011 the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry.
Predicted and scheduled events
2011 January
January 1 – The Y1C Problem will occur.
January 1 – Start of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union.
January 1 – Estonia is set to adopt the euro.
January 1 – Inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil, making her the first woman to hold that office.
January 1 – Civil partnerships will become legal in Ireland
January 2 – Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus at 13:41 UTC, with Jupiter 34 minutes of arc to the south; the third conjunction of a triple conjunction.
January 4 – Partial solar eclipse visible over most of Europe, the Arabian peninsula, North Africa, and Western Asia.
January 9 – Southern Sudan will hold a referendum on independence.
2011 February
19 February – 2 April – 2011 Cricket World Cup will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
2011 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.
2011 April
April 1 – The Space Shuttle will undertake its final mission before retirement.
April 29 – 2011 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships will start in Slovakia.
April 29 – The 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.
2011 May
Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
2011 June
June 1 – Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic.
June 15 – Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
2011 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 10 – Neptune completes its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.
2011 August
August 15 – The comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková will pass within 0.0601 astronomical units (about 5,589,300 miles (8,995,100 km)) of Earth.
August 15–21 – XXVI World Youth Day will be held in Madrid, Spain.
2011 September
September 9 – October 23 – New Zealand will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
2011 October
2011 November
November 25 – Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica.
2011 December
December 10 – Total lunar eclipse, visible mainly in Asia, Australia and Alaska.
December 31 – All United States troops are scheduled to leave Iraq
2011 Unknown dates
California will open the world's largest solar power plant.
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).
The IPv4 unallocated address pool is projected to be exhausted.
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.
A new definition of the kilogram, based on universal constants, is likely to be announced at the 24th General Conference on Weights and Measures.
Computer games on the subjects of climate change, medical innovation and women's rights will be developed in 2011.
Major holidays
January 1 – New Year's Day.
January 7 (6 in Armenia) – Orthodox Christmas.
January 14 – Makar Sankranti, Hinduism & Pongal, Tamil New Year - Says Thanks to Sun.
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 & Persian New Year
April 4 – Ugadi or Telugu New Year.
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 (northern hemisphere), also known as Midsummer or Litha. Winter solstice (southern hemisphere).
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 (northern hemisphere), also known as Yule. Summer solstice (southern hemisphere).
December 25 – Western Christmas.
In fiction
2011 Film
Killer Tattoo (2001)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
2011 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.
2011 Computer and video games
Heavy Rain (2010)
Persona 4 (2008)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (2010)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
2011 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.
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