2007
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2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
| Years: 2004 2005 2006 - 2007 (MMVII) - 2008 2009 2010 | |
| Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s | |
| Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century | |
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Predicted events
January-June
- January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria will join 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 1 - USS Baltimore to be deactivated.
- March 3 - Total lunar eclipse
- March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
- 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
- May 14 - Quadricentennial of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, USA.
- 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 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
Unknown/undecided dates
- Release of the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie
- The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[1] (http://lhc-new-homepage.web.cern.ch/lhc-new-homepage/) 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.
- 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)
- Federal Election in Australia.
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 August 8 of this year.