Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope, being built atop a Chilean mountain by 16 partner nations, is now targeting first light in March 2029 after repeated delays.

The first production lines of Ferrara Candy Company's $675 million, 750,000 sq ft plant in Orangeburg County, South Carolina are due to start in the first quarter of 2029, with the full facility opening later that year.

MIA is building a three-level Concourse K with six domestic gates, new baggage handling, a ground support equipment maintenance facility and airfield work, the first new concourse of its $9 billion modernisation programme. Construction broke ground in mid-2025.

Mitsui Fudosan's consortium is rebuilding the 190,000 sq m former Tsukiji fish market site in Chuo City as nine buildings totalling about 1,170,000 sq m, including an all-weather multifunctional venue for roughly 50,000 people, a theatre hall, a culinary centre and a waterbus terminal. The whole scheme is costed at about 900 billion yen.

A 340-metre asteroid passes about 32,000 km from Earth, closer than geostationary satellites and visible to the naked eye from Europe and Africa.

The 18th Lok Sabha's five-year term runs to June 2029, so India's next general election falls in the spring of that year. Kalshi dates its market to April 30, 2029, and on 20 September 2026 it had Narendra Modi at 51%, Yogi Adityanath at 19% and Rahul Gandhi at 6.5%.

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.

South America's longest suspension bridge, finally connecting Chiloé Island to mainland Chile. Estimated date.

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

Atlanta is rebuilding Concourse D in place, floating 19 prefabricated steel modules into position overnight to make the 1980s concourse about 60 percent wider and able to take larger aircraft while it keeps operating. Phase two began in January 2025 with the sixth module.

The third and final film of ufotable's Infinity Castle trilogy, closing Demon Slayer, is expected in Japanese theaters around July 2029; no date has been announced.

At a planned 335 metres, Tajikistan's Rogun would be the tallest dam in the world. Estimated date.

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.

The 92,000-seat stadium rises in northern Riyadh along King Salman Road next to King Abdulaziz Park, its Populous design drawing on the surrounding mountainous landscape. It will be the Saudi national team's headquarters and the venue for the opening match and final of the 2034 World Cup, with a masterplan that adds an athletics stadium, training pitches and an aquatics centre with an Olympic-sized pool.

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.

A 2,200 MW underground pumped-storage scheme linking two existing reservoirs, meant to backstop Australia's renewables. Estimated date.

India's first high-speed line, 508 km of Japanese Shinkansen technology cutting the Mumbai to Ahmedabad trip to about two hours. Estimated date.

Project 11 widens the channel by 170 feet along its Galveston Bay reach, from 530 to 700 feet, and deepens upstream segments to 46.5 feet so the largest container ships can pass one another. Dredging began in 2022; Port Houston finished its own segments in October 2025 and the US Army Corps of Engineers is completing the rest, with the spoil building bird islands, marsh and oyster reef.