2007

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This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future events. It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the event approaches and more information becomes available.

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2007 by topic:
News:	Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
Arts	Architecture - Art - Literature Music - Film - Television - Home video
Politics	Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders
Sci/Tech	Aviation - Railroads - Science
Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Iraq - Ireland - South Africa
Other	Deaths - Gaming - Religious leaders - Sport

2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Predicted events 1.1 January-June 1.2 July-December 1.3 Unknown/undecided dates 2 Fictional Events

Predicted events

January-June

• January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria will join the European Union, and Irish will become an official language of the European Union.
• January 1 - Change of ISBN numbering system to 13 digit code.
• February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be held in Miami, Florida.
• March - Predicted Launch of the first commercially available Flexible display screens, by electronics company Philips.
• March 1 - USS Baltimore to be deactivated.
• March 3 - Total lunar eclipse
• March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
• March 20 - The Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Kid will be released. [1]
• March 26- The 300th anniversary of the Act of Union becoming law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. April 28th will be the 300th anniversary of the abolition of the old Scottish parliament.
• March 31 to April 2 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
• May 3 - Scottish parliamentary election, 2007 and the Welsh Assembly Election 2007
• May 4 - Spider-Man 3 will be released.
• Jacques Chirac's term as President of France will end.
• Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus on the way to Mercury orbit.
• Expected release date of the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

July-December

• July 4 - Transformers the Movie and the Fantastic Four sequel will be released in theaters
• July 13 to July 29 - The XV Pan-American Games will be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• July 27 to August 8 - The 21st World Scout Jamboree will take place at Chelmsford Hylands Park in Essex.
• July - the U.S. President's Trade Promotion Authority is set to expire.
• August 8 - August 18 - Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand
• September 11 - Partial solar eclipse
• October - the ten countries who joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 will join the Schengen treaty.
• October 21 - Parliamentary election in the Canadian province of Ontario
• November - Referendum expected to be held in Australia on the basis of forming a republic.

Unknown/undecided dates

• India's 10th Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) comes to an end and the 11th plan (2007-2012) starts.
• Release of the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie
• The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[2] is scheduled to be switched on.
• Uranus' orbit positions it so that the Sun shines directly from above on a spot located at its equator
• The Mark III Ford Mondeo will be launched.
• Scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK).
• Pervez Musharraf's term as President of Pakistan legally ends.
• The 6th European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
• Presidential Election in Argentina.
• Presidential Election in France.
• Winter Universiade will be in Turin, Italy
• The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 will be held in China.
• Schönefeld International Airport in Berlin will be renamed Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, and Tegel International Airport will close.
• Scheduled completion of Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai.
• 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown, Virginia, US, will be celebrated, with an anticipated visit from the Queen of the United Kingdom.
• The First Freedom Center will open in Richmond, Virginia, US.
• US Interstate 99 will be extended from its current terminus in Bald Eagle, PA to Interstate 80 outside Bellefonte, PA.
• The Hubble Space Telescope's batteries are set to run out of power, if action is not taken by NASA.
• The deadline for bids to host the 2016 Summer Olympics will probably be this year.
• The 2014 Winter Olympics host city will be announced in Guatemala.
• A federal election in Australia will be held.
• First Type 45 Destroyer, "HMS Daring", enters service with the British Royal Navy.
• Jack Kevorkian is eligible for parole.
• Charles Manson is eligible for parole.
• Slovakia is expected to enter the phase three of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and introduce the Euro as de facto currency, substituting the Slovakian Koruny (SKK).
• The comic strip For Better or For Worse will end after a 28-year run.
• A Futurama movie is slated to be released to DVD sometime this year
• The BBC World Service is to launch a television news channel in Arabic.

Fictional Events

• The plot of Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters likely begins on July 12 of this year.
• The "Tanker Chapter" of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty takes place on or after August 8 of this year.
• In the Mega Man series, Dr. Thomas Light is awarded the Nobel Prize for the creation of the Robot Master in this year (2007). Dr. Wily's jealousy leads him to reprogram the industrial robot masters one year later (2008, officially December 200X) starting the beginning of the long running series of games.
• In the video game, Ghost Recon 2, this is the year when a second Korean war starts.

Preceded by: 2006

Years 2007

Succeeded by: 2008