2007

This page relates to the year 2007 (in Roman numerals) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Other calendars

The year 2007 of the Gregorian Calendrier corresponds to the following years:

  • Hebrew Calendar: 5767/5768 (the 1 er Tishri 5768 took place on September 13rd, 2007)
  • Moslem Calendrier: 1427/1428 (the 1 er mouharram 1428 took place on January 20th, 2007)
  • Persan Calendrier: 1385/1386 (the 1 er farvardin 1386 took place on March 21st, 2007)
  • Calendrier sayana: 1928/1929 (the 1 er 1929 took place on March 22nd, 2007)
  • Jours Julien will chaitra: of: 2,454,101.5 with: 2,454,466.5

Events

January

  • January 1st at midnight:
  • January 6th: World day of the orphans of the War
  • January 11th:
    • David Beckham announces that it leaves Real Madrid for team MLS of the Los Angeles Galaxy. The transfer will take effect at the end of the season.
    • Vietnam joined OMC, and becomes the 150e member about it.
  • January 15th: Inauguration of the monorail Sentosa Express has Singapore.
  • 17 - January 18th: The Storm Kyrill striking a broad corridor from the British Isles in Poland. Its winds make at least 45 dead, of material extensive damage and they disturbed the rail and air traffics European.
  • January 22nd:
    • Opening of the 8th top of the African Union (until January 30th), in Abeda, chaired by Ghana.
    • Death of the Abbot Pierre.
  • January 25th:
    • Moshe Katsav request its temporary suspension of the position of president of Israel and this one is accepted by a special subcommittee of the Parlement for one three months period. The president of the Parliament Dalia Itzik becomes president by interim.
    • J.K Rowling announces the exit of " Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows " for on July 21st, 2007.
  • January 24th: Opening of the world economic forum of Davos (from January 24th to 28th)
  • January 26th:
    • the French Michel Platini is elected president of UEFA at the time of the congress of this leading organization of European football with Dusseldorf by 27 votes against 23 with the outgoing president, the Swedish Lennart Johansson.
    • international Day of the customs and ethics.
  • January 27th: International day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
  • January 28th:
    • Georges Frêche is excluded from the French Socialist party to have held of the racist remarks on the French football team.
    • Demonstration in Washington of several opponents to the war in Iraq.
  • January 29th:
    • Médecins of the world withdraws Darfur, considering the situation too dangerous.
    • Meeting of the environmental group of experts on the evolution of the climate (GIEC) in Paris.
  • January 30th:
    • world Day of the leprous one.
    • Attack anti-Shiites, the day of Aschowa in Iraq, in the village Dour Mandali.
    • the Zimbabwe records a record rate of inflation of: 1,600%.

February

  • :
    • Prohibition to smoke in the public places in France (colleges, colleges, undertaken…). It is necessary to wait February 2008 for this prohibition applies to the restaurants, bars and nightclubs.
    • of 19:55 to 20:00 (French hour): operation “Five minutes of respite for planet”, consisting in extinguishing the lights, impetus and taken again by many environmental associations to awake the consciences on the wastings and to challenge the policies. It is a success with a fall of consumption of approximately 800 MW in France, and being also extended abroad.
    • Chad: Confrontation with the morning between Chadian rebels and the governmental army with Adré.
    • Great Britain: The workers party would have diverted funds with the profit of Tony Blair.
  • February 2nd:
    • world Journée of the wetlands
    • UNO decides statute of the Kosovo: the territory will be an independent State.
  • February 3rd: the Prime Minister Italy N cancels all the football games in Italy because of the riots of February 2nd.
  • February 4th: World day against cancer.
  • February 6th :
    • At a meeting on the “modernization” of military logistics, in answer to the call of the Chinese government in favor of a company preserving the energy resources and the environment, and following the decision of the popular Armed with release (APL) to order with the Chinese armed forces to reduce the costs and to preserve energy, Liao Xilong - in its capacity as director of the general Department of logistics of the army - declared that “ the armed forces were to lead the movement for the construction of a company able to preserve the energy resources.
    • international Journée against the female genital mutilations
    • the British Tabloïd The Sun reveals a video revealing an American bur in 2003, in Iraq.
  • February 8th :
    • Agreement concluded with Mecque between the Fatah and the Hamas on the installation from a government from national unit in Palestine.
    • Adoption of the bill recognizing “the union in fact” homosexual or hétérosexuelle by the Italian government. The Pape Benoît XVI is opposed to it.
  • February 9th: Lansana Conté appoints Eugene Camara Prime Minister in order to put an end to the general strike which touches the Guinea.
  • February 11th :
    • Referendum on the de-penalization of the Abortion to the Portugal. “Yes” carries it with 59,3% of the voices, but the poll is invalidated because of the weakness of rate of participation to the vote.
    • France: Philippe Bidout leaves prison after 18 years of detention.
  • February 12th: International day of the children soldiers
  • February 14th: Celebration of the birthday of the assassination of Rafic Hariri by its partisans in Beirut.
  • February 15th :
    • Spain, the lawsuit of the Attentats of March 11th, 2004 in Madrid opens. It will last more than 6 months
    • 24e top Africa-France, opened in Cannes.
    • Launching of the week of insane the of the Rhenish Carnival, with Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz.
    • Bolivia: return of El Nino towards Santa Cruz, declared state of emergency.
    • France: the Children of Don Quichotte, association French of assistance to SDF reinstalls tents with the Canal Saint Martin's day in Paris.
    • Japan: Naruto Shippûden leaves to Japan.
  • February 16th :
  • February 19th: in India, several bombs make 66 dead in Samjhauta Express, one of the two lines of trains which connect this country to the Pakistan.
  • February 21st: international Day of the native tongue.
  • February 25th :
  • February 27th
    • European Day of the memory, the Holocaust and the prevention of the crimes against humanity.
    • Création by ministerial decree of the Amazonian Parc of Guyana, National park French protecting part of the Amazon forest located on the territory from the French Guiana, which makes the 8th French national park of it.
  • February 28th: Airbus announces its restructuring plan Power 8 , which envisages: 10000 redundancies as well as the transfer of several factories from here to 2008.

March

April

  • April 1st: Exit of the distribution Linux Fedora Core 6.
  • April 3rd: On the line at high speed Is European, the SNCF managed to make roll a TGV Duplex especially prepared at the speed of 574,8 km/h, world records on rail. This record lay within the scope of the program “V150” aiming at exceeding the speed of 150 m/sec (either 540 km/h).
  • April 5th: Station of the East in Paris: A suburban train coming from Castle-Thierry runs up against the stop against 5 km/h. 71 wounded.
  • April 10th: With the Morocco, in the town of Casablanca, 3 kamikazes explode themselves, is killed, 5 people are wounded, whose two police officers and another police officer loses the life following a deflagration.
  • April 16th: an insane gunner Cho Seung-hui kills 32 people at the University Virginia Tech in Virginia, according to the sources. It is the school shooting most fatal of the history of the United States.
  • April 17th: Shock in England: the Prince Williams and his been engaged Kate Middleton separate

May

June

July

  • July 1st: Opening of the market of électricté with the private individuals. End of the monopoly of EDF to the sale of electricity in France.
  • July 3rd: The challenge Suisse Alinghi gains the 32e Coupe of America by beating Emirates TEAM New Zealand 5-2 .
  • July 4th :
  • July 7th :
    • Publication by the pope Benoît XVI of the Motu landlord Summorum Pontificum , accompanied (what is unusual) by a pastoral Lettre addressed to the bishops, intended to put an end to the conflict with the Catholiques traditionalists. The Église rehabilitates the Messe of saint Pie V (the Latin mass of before the Vatican II) - to which those were very attached - without calling into question the liturgy resulting from the Vatican II, the Messe of Paul VI remaining the reference.
    • Departure of the Tour de France 2007 of London (England), where the prolog disputes, gained by the Suisse Fabian Cancellara ( TEAM CSC ), which seizes the first Yellow jersey.
    • Publication of the result of the vote on Internet to indicate the Seven new wonders of the world , to which took share nearly 100 million Net surfers throughout the world. The organization of this poll was criticized by the UNESCO, which considers that the new wonders of the world are the 831 sites indexed on the Liste of the world heritage.
    • Live Earth , a concert given simultaneously in several countries to fight the climatic crisis.
    • Marriage of the couple Tony Parker and Eva Longoria, in France.
  • July 7th at July 14th: 13º Gymnaestrada World in Dornbirn, in Austria.
  • July 10th: the red Mosquée of Islamabad, where had cut off themselves since the 3 from the radical Islamistes, to which had joined members of Al-Qaida, is taken by storm by the army Pakistan ease. The fundamentalist leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi is killed during the attack.
  • July 16th: A earthquake in Japan magnitude 6,8 fact 11 dead, more than thousand wounded and causes incidents in the Nuclear plant of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa involving minor escapes of radioactivity and its emergency stop.
  • July 21st: Exit of the last volume of Harry Potter " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows " english language version. Nonthe english-speaking will have to await October to read the French version.
  • July 30th: Died of Ingmar Bergman, celebrates Swedish scenario writer.

August

  • 4 August 5th: Black weekend under the Roads with more than 700 km of Stoppers Saturday.
  • 7 with the August 12th: the Inondations in North Korea have been strongest in the country for more than forty years, involving a call to the international assistance of the government North-Korean
  • August 8th: the Chinese Académie of sciences announces officially the disappearance of the Dauphin of China , single fresh water dolphin of China, victim of pollution.
  • August 8th: The Mauritania vote a new law more repressive abolitionist to try to suppress these practices persitantes.
  • August 28th, Belgium: resignation of Yves Leterme of his role of trainer of the Belgian government, because it was unable to reconcile the points of sights of Dutch-speaking, wishing a reform of the State to transmit more competences to a level of regional capacity, such as for example the social security, which it would be advantageous for them to regionalize, and of the French-speaking people, who refuse this reform, because they fear the bursting of the country as well as economic difficulty increased for their area in conversion of industry. This event plunges the Belgium in an important political crisis, the more and more growing hollow gap between the political tendencies of the various communities.

September

October

  • October 4th: At the conclusion of the second top intercoréen of the Heads of State, the leader North-Korean Kim Jong-il and chair it South Korean Roh Moo-hyun engage in favor of a peace agreement in the Korean peninsula.

  • October 6th: The France beats the Nouvelle Zealand 20 to 18 with Cardiff, which qualifies it for the semi-final against the England.
  • Night of the 6 to the October 7th: the Bridge of Argenteuil (1874) of Claude Monet is severely damaged (tear of 10 cm), after individuals were introduced into the Musée of Orsay and that one of them gave a punch in the table.
  • October 9th: Election of Christian-social the Günther Beckstein (63 years) at the post of minister-president of the Republic of Bavaria.
  • October 12th: Al Gore, jointly with the Group of UNO on the climate (GIEC) receives the Nobel Prize of Peace
  • October 13rd: the XV of France loses in semi-final of the World cup of Rugby to XV 2007 vis-a-vis England (14-9)
  • October 18th: Nicolas Sarkozy Divorce of its wife Cécilia Sarkozy by mutual assent
  • Of Wednesday October 17th 20:00 at Friday fine October 19th of evening: (normally only during 24 hours): Important strikes in the public Transport in France following the reform of the Special diets of retirement. The mobilization was more important than the strikes of 1995. the SNCF, the RATP, EDF, GDF and much of public services were in strike. There was this day it only very few TGV, no train Corail, very few FOR THE THIRD TIME and almost no the RER nor Métro in Paris region. Approximately 76% strikers.
  • October 19th: the XV of France loses the match for the 3rd place of the World cup of Rugby to XV 2007 vis-a-vis Argentinian the
  • October 20th: Finale of the World cup of Rugby to XV 2007 between England and South Africa. Victoire of South Africa.
  • October 26th: exit in France of the seventh and the last divides into volumes of Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the relics of dead the .
  • October 28th: In Argentinian, victory of Cristina Fernandez of Kirchner to the presidential election

November

  • November 6th: Died of five Afghan members of Parliament - among which Sayed Mustafa Kazemi was - in one of the worst attacks in Afghanistan since 2001. The Attack-suicide was perpetrated in the relatively peaceful small town of Baghlân, near Pol-e Khomri, in the North-East of the country. A Kamikaze, circulating with foot, was thrown on a delegation of members of Parliament visiting a sugar refinery and was exploded, killing, according to the last known assessment, more than 40 people and by wounding a hundred and twenty others.

  • November 11th: Very strong storm in Black Sea, four tradind ships ran, six were failed on a hollow and two tankers were damaged in the Détroit of Kerch causing a major pollution.
  • November 17th: inauguration and startup of the Tram of Mans
  • November 21st: first setting in examination in France of old a President of the Republic (Jacques Chirac)

December

Belgium December 1st: Yves Leterme resigns of his station of trainer

The year 2007 in various fields

Arts & culture

See also: 2007 with the cinema, 2007 in music, 2007 in classical music, 2007 in literature, 2007 with the theater, 2007 as a cartoon, 2007 on television, 2007 structures

of it

Astronomy

Data processing

Sports

Automobile sport

  • F1 Grands Prix 2007: 17 races (by chronological order):
Australia - Melbourne: March 18th | Malaysia - Sepang: April 8th | Bahrain - Sakhir: April 15th | Spain - Barcelona: May 13rd | Monaco - Monaco: May 27th | Canada - Montreal: June 10th | the United States - Indianapolis: June 17th | France - Magny-Course: 1 {{er}} July | Great Britain - Silverstone: July 8th | Europe - Nürburgring: July 22nd | Hungary, Budapest: August 5th. Turkey, Istanbul: August 26th. Italy, Monza: September 9th. Belgium, Spa-Francorchamps: September 16th. Japan, Circuit of Fuji: October 8th. China, Shanghai: September 30th. Brazil, Sao Paulo: October 22nd.
  • Rally of Monte Carlo: Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo offer splendid doubled for the first rally of the news C4 WRC in front of Marcus Gronhölm on Ford Focus WRC 2006.

Company

Education

Death in 2007

See also: Death in 2007

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Events envisaged: The year 2007 in the five continents (with forecasts)

World

Africa

Morocco

See also: Parliamentary election in Morocco of 2007

Americas

Argentina

Canada

See also: 2007 in Canada

The United States

Europe

Belgium

  • January 1st: Coming into effect of the law prohibiting to smoke in the restaurants.

  • June 10th: Federal legislative elections

Finland

France

See also: 2007 in France

  • Climate warming - France: the month of April 2007 will have been, according to the French Central Meteorological Office, the the hottest April ever recorded since 1950 (inaugural year where the temperatures of the hexagon are systematically recorded). The monthly average with Bron in the Rhone-Alps is of 15.5 °C, where the normal would be of 14 °C, which constitutes the record of heat since the center weather of Bron operates (1922).

  • September: inauguration of the 2 new lines of Tram to Strasbourg (they supplement the 4 already existing lines),

  • September 3rd: inauguration of the prolongation of line 1 of the Tram of Valencian Valencians connecting to Denain.
not fixed Dates
  • Inauguration and startup of line 1 of the tram of the Mans

  • Inauguration of a first section of the A86 Western (connection Rueil-Malmaison - Rocquencourt).
  • Inauguration of the world head office of Casino to Saint-Etienne (May 2007) and continuation of the construction and alteration work of the City of the Businesses around the station of Châteaucreux TGV (quoted administrative, multiplexing, hotels, crib between firms, etc)
  • Inauguration of the Room of Current musics (SMAC) of Saint-Etienne, the city launched a call to the summer 2006 so that a true name is given to this new cultural establishment.
  • Inauguration of the Stage of the Alps of Grenoble (: 20,000 places, extensible with: 28,000 places).
  • Prolongation of the line the Trans-Valley-of-Marne (TVM), of MIN of Rungis to Station of Croix-de-Berny (station of the line B of the RER).

The United Kingdom

Serbia

  • legislative Elections
  • Resumption of negotiations on the statute of the Kosovo

Switzerland

See also: 2007 in Switzerland

Germany

Oceania

  • November: probable behavior of a referendum in Australia on the constitution of a Republic.

Principal religious holidays

See too

  • List of elections in 2007

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