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

Years: 2004 2005 2006 - 2007 - 2008 2009 2010

Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Contents

1 Predicted events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Unknown dates 3 2007 in fiction

Predicted events

January

• January 1 - Target date for the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union.
• January 1 - Change of ISBN numbering system to 13 digit code.

February

• February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be held in Miami, Florida.

March

• 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.

April

May

• May 14 - Quadricentennial of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, USA.
• Jacques Chirac's term as President of France will end.

June

• 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

• July 4 - If still in use with the 50-star design, the current Flag of the United States will have been unchanged (i.e., same number of stars) for the longest time since its adoption in 1775.

• 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 be hosted by the United Kingdom, in celebration of the Centenary of Scouting. It will take place at Chelmsford Hylands Park in Essex. 40,000 young people will camp, live and work alongside each other. They will come from a variety of different cultures, backgrounds, and religions. Scouting 2007

August

• August 1 - Scouting celebrates its worldwide Centenary. Scouting 2007

September

• September 11 - Partial solar eclipse

October

November

• November 16 - The state of Oklahoma celebrates its centennial

December

Unknown dates

• The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[1] 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
• 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.
• Winter Universiade will be in Turin, Italy
• Summer Universiade will be in Bangkok, Thailand
• 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.

2007 in fiction

• 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 during this year.