Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower has passed its 100th floor and is on track to become the world's tallest building, edging past a kilometre in height once its spire is counted.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

The 2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the eleventh edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket from 21 October to 19 November 2028. It will be the first time that New Zealand would host the event, while Australia had previously hosted the competition in 2022. The article names no venues, so this pin sits at Melbourne Cricket Ground, the lead host's flagship ground.

Election Day for the 2028 U.S. presidential race is November 7, 2028, and Kalshi's winner market was still wide open on 20 September 2026: J.D. Vance led at 22%, followed by Jon Ossoff at 12% and Marco Rubio at 9.6%. The winner takes office on January 20, 2029.

Quebec is replacing the perpetually troubled retractable roof of Montreal’s 1976 Olympic Stadium with a new fixed structure, targeting a 2028 reopening.

JASM's second fab in Kikuyo, Kumamoto - switched from 6nm-class chips to TSMC's 3nm process - is due to start volume production in 2028 at 15,000 12-inch wafers a month, making Japan's first 3nm chips about a year after the end-2027 start TSMC first promised.

An 18 km immersed tunnel under the Baltic links Denmark and Germany, cutting Hamburg to Copenhagen rail travel to about 2.5 hours. Estimated date.

Blizzard's next mainline Diablo, set in a Sanctuary where Diablo has already won, is targeted for Spring 2029.

The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.

Canada's fixed-date law puts the next general election on the third Monday of October 2029, which is October 15. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had the Liberal Party at 60%, the Conservative Party at 38% and the NDP at 3.5%; a lost confidence vote would bring the date forward.

Metro Vancouver is spending CAD $6BN extending the SkyTrain Expo Line 16km from Surrey to Langley, after scrapping a cheaper light-rail plan that would already have opened.

A leading naval architect recently gave some predictions for the future of 3D printing in the yacht manufacturing industry. The technology stands to hugely improve efficiency in the manufacturing process, an industrial-grade printer should be ready by the end of this year, and 3D printing entire yachts will be possible by 2030

Blizzard confirmed its next StarCraft game abandons the RTS format for an open-world shooter, with development leads calling 2030 a "solid" release target meant to keep the team honest and focused.

A purpose-built capital 45 km east of Cairo, home to Africa's tallest tower and intended for six million residents. Estimated date.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 06:27:55 UT on 2030-06-01, and the annular phase lasts up to 5 minutes 21 seconds along a path 249.6 km wide crossing Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey, Russia, n. China and Japan. A partial eclipse is visible from Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Arctic and Alaska.

Saudi Arabia hosts the World Expo for the first time, on a purpose-built site north of Riyadh. Estimated date.

The Moon's shadow touches down at 06:50:19 UT on 2030-11-25, and the total phase lasts up to 3 minutes 44 seconds along a path 169.3 km wide crossing Botswana, S. Africa and Australia. A partial eclipse is visible from southern Africa, southern Indian Oc., the East Indies, Australia and Antarctica.

A European-gauge high-speed line finally connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the rest of the EU rail network. Estimated date.

The first 2.4 km of a proposed 170 km linear city of mirrored walls, scaled back sharply from original announcements. Estimated date.

Ethiopia has begun construction on the $12.5BN Bishoftu International Airport, designed for up to 110 million passengers a year and billed as Africa's biggest aviation project.

NASA plans to retire the 25-year-old ISS by guiding it into a remote stretch of the South Pacific using a purpose-built SpaceX deorbit vehicle.