2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (a common year is one which is NOT a leap year).

It has been designated:

* an International Polar Year
* International Heliophysical Year
* Year of the Surf Lifesaver by the Australian government

In other Calendars 2007 will be :

Gregorian calendar 2007 MMVII
Ab urbe condita 2760
Armenian calendar 1456
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Chinese calendar 4643/4703-11-13
(丙戌年十一月十三日;) — to — 4644/4704-11-22
(丁亥年十一月廿二日;)
Ethiopian calendar 1999 – 2000
Hebrew calendar 5767 – 5768
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 2062 – 2063
- Shaka Samvat 1929 – 1930
- Kali Yuga 5108 – 5109
Iranian calendar 1385 – 1386
Islamic calendar 1428 – 1429
Japanese calendar Heisei 19

(平成19年;)
- Imperial Year Kōki 2667
(皇紀2667年;) - Jōmon Era 12007
Thai solar calendar 2550

What do we have to look forward to:
* January 1
o European Union issues
+ Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
+ Irish becomes an official working language of the European Union.
+ Slovenia adopts the euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
o The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) code increases in length from 10 to 13 digits.
o South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
* January 3 - The 110th United States Congress is sworn in.
* January 21 - Parliamentary and Presidential elections take place in Serbia.
* January 24 - 28 - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting are held in Davos, Switzerland.
* January 30 - Windows Vista Microsoft's latest Operating System is released world wide to consumers.

* February 3-February 18 - The Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 will be held in Ĺre, Sweden.
* February 4 - Super Bowl XLI will be held in Miami, Florida.
* February 18 - The Daytona 500 will be held in Daytona Beach, Florida marking the start of the 2007 NASCAR season.
* February 25 - The 79th Academy Awards will take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
* February 28 - The New Horizons space probe will make a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter to change its trajectory towards Pluto.

* March 2-March 4 - The 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships will take place at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England (UK).
* March 3-March 4 - Total lunar eclipse.
* March 11-April 28 - The 2007 Cricket World Cup will be held in the West Indies.
* March 14 - Local number portability beings in Canada.
* March 17 - The 2007 National Rugby League (Australia) season will commence in Melbourne and Brisbane.
* March 17- Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated all over the world.
* March 18 - The 2007 Formula One season will begin in Melbourne, Australia with the Australian Grand Prix.
* March 18 - A parliamentary election will take place in Finland.
* March 18-April 1 - The 2007 World Aquatics Championships will be held in Melbourne, Australia.
* March 19 - Partial solar eclipse.
* March 24 - A legislative election will take place in the Australian state of New South Wales.
* March 26 - The smoking ban comes into force in England (UK).
* March 31-April 2 - The 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament's Final Four will take place at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.

* April 1 - Major League Baseball season opener.
* April 14 - The 2007 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards, known as the "Space Oscars", will be presented.
* April 16 - Elections to be held in Nigeria.
* April 22 - The first round of the French presidential election of 2007 will take place.
* April 23 - Bogotá, Colombia, begins its term as World Book Capital.
* April 26 - Jamestown 2007, the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first settlement of the modern-day United States at Jamestown, Virginia will be celebrated.

* May 3 - There will be parliamentary and local government elections in Scotland and an assembly election in Wales.
* May 6 - The second round (also called runoff) of the presidential election in France will be held.
* May 12 -
o The final of the 52nd Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Helsinki, Finland.
o A general election to the Alţingi, the parliament of Iceland, will take place.
* May 16-May 20 - The European Festival of Youth Choirs will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
* May 19 - The 23rd annual United States National Science Olympiad tournament will be held in Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
* May 23 - The UEFA Champions League 2006-07 season final will be held in the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece.
* May 27 - Autonomical and local elections in all the Spanish Autonomous Communities except Galicia, Andalusia, the Basque Country and Catalonia.
* May 28-June 2 - The Urdd National Eisteddfod will be held in Carmarthenshire, South Wales

* June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will make its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.
* June 6 - June 8 - The 33rd G8 summit will take place in Heiligendamm, Germany.
* June 10 - The first round of the legislative election in France will be held.
* June 17 - The second round of the legislative election in France will take place.
* June 20 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
* June 26 - July 15 - The Copa América 2007 association football tournament will take place in Venezuela.
* June 28 - Start of the Manchester International Festival
* June 30 - A calendar Blue moon will occur.

* July 1 - Russia will be composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as Koryakia will be merged into the Kamchatka Oblast per a 2005 referendum.
* July 1 - The Concert for Diana, celebrating the 46th birthday of the late Princess of Wales, will take place at Wembley Arena. It has been planned by her two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.
* July 7 - The New Seven Wonders of the World are set to be revealed in a ceremony in Switzerland.
* July 7 - The host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics will be announced at the General Meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The three candidates cities are Sochi, Salzburg and Pyeongchang.
* July 7-July 29 - The Asian Cup 2007 association football tournament will take place in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
* July 7-July 29 - The 2007 Tour de France will take place; the grand départ will be from London.
* July 13-July 29 - The 2007 Pan American Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
* July 15 - An election will determine 121 of the 242 seats in the Japanese House of Councillors.
* July 27 to August 8 - The 21st World Scout Jamboree will take place in Chelmsford, Essex, England.

* August 4-August 11 - The National Eisteddfod of Wales will be held at Mold, Flintshire, Wales.
* August 24-September 2 - The 2007 World Championships in Athletics will be held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.
* August 28 - Total lunar eclipse
* August 30-September 3 - The 65th World Science Fiction Convention will take place in Yokohama, Japan.

* September 2 - A general election in Guatemala will elect the president, vice-president, congressmen, municipal mayors and representatives to Parlacen.
* September 7-October 20 - The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be held, primarily in France but with three matches in Cardiff, Wales and two in Edinburgh, Scotland.
* September 8-September 9 - The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation will host its annual city meeting in Sydney.
* September 10-September 30 - The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup association football tournament will take place in the People's Republic of China.
* September 11 - Partial solar eclipse.
* September 23-September 28 - Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth at which the newly elected party leader will address delegates for the first time as Prime Minister.
* September 30 - The 2007 National Rugby League Grand Final (Australia) will be held at Telstra Stadium. It will be the ninth Grand Final in NRL history, and the 99th in Australian rugby league history.

* October 4 - An election in the Canadian province of Ontario will take place.
* October 27 - An election in Argentina will elect the President and members of the National Congress.
* Unknown date - An election in Pakistan is due.

* November 4
o General Elections will be held in Turkey.
o Daylight saving time in the United States and most of Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
* 14 November - The Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to the Channel Tunnel is expected to be completed.
* 19 November the new TARGET2 system, the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system of the euro will go live.
* Unknown date - The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator and collider at CERN in France and Switzerland, is scheduled to be switched on.

* December 31
o European Union copyright in favor of Great Ormond Street Hospital on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan set to expire.

[Yawn] I think I am ready for bed now!

Many thanks to wikipedia