2011 year starting on Saturday, according to the Gregorian calendar.
The first year of the second decade of the XXI century.

Matches:

• 2554 in the Buddhist calendar.
• 100 year Juche (North Korea).
• 1923 Heisei era (in Japan).

Upcoming events

January

• January 1 - Estonia will switch to the euro, becoming the 17 th member of the eurozone.
• January 1 - Hungary will become a state-chairman of the Council of the European Union.
• January 4 - Partial solar eclipse, will best be seen in Europe and western Russia.
• January 7 - Qatar launched the 15 th Cup Asian Cup.
• January 15 - 10 years project Wikipedia.
• January 30 - Winter Asian Games in Astana and Almaty.
• In southern Sudan will be a referendum on independence from Sudan
• In the Sudanese province of Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile will hold a referendum on accession to the Southern Sudan.

February

• February 6 - Super Bowl XLIV will be held in Arlington, Texas.
• 10 February - beginning of treatment of 100-dollar new banknotes.
• 2011 Winter Universiade in Erzurum, Turkey.

March

• March 5 - NASA's New Horizons will cross the orbit of Uranus, after a five-year journey. The spacecraft Voyager 2 crossed the distance in 8 years.
• March 18 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft should arrive in orbit around Mercury.
• March 20 - Parliamentary elections in Finland.
• March - plans to open the world's largest airport Al Maktoum International at Dubai for passenger liners

April

• April 24 - Orthodox Easter.
• April 26 - 25 years of catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

May

• May 14 - Final Eurovision Song Contest 2011 held in Berlin.
• May 17 - scheduled census in Canada.
• May 18 - Champions League of Europe held in Dublin (Ireland) at the stadium Aviv.
• May 28 - Champions League final will be held in London.

June

• June 20 - June 26, the International Paris Air Show Le Bourget [4].

July

• July 1 - Poland will become chairman of the State Council of the European Union.
• July 3 - starts 43rd America's Cup in football.
• July 6 - The IOC will announce the capital of Winter Olympic Games 2018.
• July 24 - scheduled shift in Japan from analog television to digital.
• 24-30 July. In Melbourne (Australia) will XVIII International Botanical Congress.

August

• August 31 - Canada cease analog television broadcasts.

September

• September 1 - the EU will be banned sale of incandescent light bulbs capacity of 50 Tues
• September 9 - Auckland in New Zealand will start the seventh Rugby World Cup-union.

October

• October 22 - 200 anniversary of the composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

November

• November 25 - partial solar eclipse

December

• December 31 - the deadline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq according to US-Iraq agreement in 2008.

No exact date

• Final of the new Seven Wonders of Nature
• Commissioning of the plot Tohoku Shinkansen from Hachinohe to Shin-Aomori.
• In the Russian Federation will be banned sale of incandescent lamps with capacity of 100 and 75 watts.
• In the Russian Federation will be banned commercial operation of buses older than 15 years.
• Begins construction in Chile's largest telescope in the world. Project completion is scheduled in 2018. The project cost is estimated at 120 million dollars.