2011 (MMXI), a common year that started on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is 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.
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The United Nations has designated 2011 the International Year of:
• International Year of Forests
• International Year of Chemistry
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World Veterinary Year 2011
The year 2011 has been named by the US SENATE and commemorated by OIE ,FAO and FDA. the World
Veterinary Year in recognition of the 250th anniversary of the foundation of the world’s first veterinary school in
Lyon, France, in 1761, shortly followed by the Alfort veterinary school, near Paris, in 1764, both of them at
the initiative of French veterinarian Claude Bourgelat Vets celebrated at the start of World Veterinary Year- Source
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Events in January
• January 1 - Start of the Hungarian presidency of the
Council of the European Union.
• January 1 - Estonia joins the Eurozone.
• January 1 - Lithuania received chairmanship of
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• January 9 - Southern Sudan is holding a referendum on independence.
• January 12 - Lebanon's year-old unity government collapses.
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Predicted and scheduled events
February
• February 19 - April 2 - 2011 Cricket World Cup will be held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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
• April 1 - The Space Shuttle's last scheduled flight.
• April 29 - 2011 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships will start in Slovakia.
• Pakistan will launch its first space satellite.
• The Universal House of Justice will announce the new Five Year Plan.
May
• Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, and Mars all visible within a roughly 6° area of sky.
June
• June 1 - Partial solar eclipse in the Arctic.
• June 15 - Total lunar eclipse, mainly visible in Africa, India, and the Middle East.
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 Council of the European Union.
• July 1 - Partial solar eclipse off the coast of Antarctica.
• July 6 - In Durban, South Africa, the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
• July 10 - Neptune completes its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.
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.
September
• September 9 - October 23 - New Zealand will host the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
October
• October 13 - October 30 - 2011 Pan American Games.
November
• November 25 - Partial solar eclipse in Antarctica.
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.
• 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.
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Major Holidays:
• January 7 (6 in Armenia) - Orthodox Christmas
• February 1 - Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day
• February 3 - Chinese New Year
• March 8 - Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season
• March 21 - (Northern hemisphere) Vernal equinox, also known as Ostara & Persian 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
• 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 Hinduism
• November 6 - Eid al-Adha
• November 26 - Islamic New Year
• December 20 - Chanukah
• December 25 - Western Christmas
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