Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Fate/Zero Season 2 begins its TV run, closing out the Fourth Holy Grail War as its remaining Masters and Servants abandon their uneasy truce and fight to the finish.

Kyoto Animation's Hyouka begins broadcast, adapting Honobu Yonezawa's Classic Literature Club light novels as reluctant sleuth Houtarou Oreki is drawn into solving his high school club's small, long-buried mysteries.

Boeing handed over the first 747-8 Intercontinental delivered to an airline, D-ABYA for Lufthansa, in Everett on 25 April 2012. The airplane flew to Frankfurt on 1 May and began revenue flights to Washington Dulles on 1 June.

Ivy Bridge launched April 29, 2012 as Intel's first FinFET product (22 nm tri-gate), led by the Core i7-3770K (4 cores/8 threads, 3.5/3.9 GHz, $332) with HD 4000 graphics and PCIe 3.0.

Marvel Studios' The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, opened in US theaters on 4 May 2012 as the final film of Phase One and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren christened the 139,000-tonne MSC Divina in Marseille a week after her delivery. Built for $550 million at STX France's Saint-Nazaire shipyard, she became the third ship in MSC Cruises' Fantasia class.

Vintana Wine & Dine in Escondido. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower at the time and an earthquake-engineering showcase, opened to visitors in Sumida, Tokyo.

When low-born servant boys Piao and Xin set out to become the world’s greatest war generals, they quickly find themselves caught up in a violent struggle between two noblemen plotting to overthrow the King.

Lionel Beccat’s Ginza French dining room combines Japanese seasonal ingredients with French technique. Booking publishes seven- and eight-course lunch bases of ¥24,640 and ¥31,360 including tax and service.

Liebherr presented its LTM 1750-9.1, an all-terrain mobile crane that can drive fully rigged on public roads with its 52-metre telescopic boom, to more than 2,000 customers at its Ehingen, Germany plant. The 750-tonne-capacity crane costs around 4 million euros.

Pixar's Brave opened in North America on 22 June 2012 after premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival, introducing Pixar's first female protagonist, the Scottish princess Merida. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Singapore's Gardens by the Bay opened on 29 June 2012, its Flower Dome conservatory later certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest glass greenhouse.

The girls of the Amusement Club return in Yuru Yuri♪♪, finding new ways to make passing time even more enjoyable.

At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.

A-1 Pictures' Sword Art Online begins broadcast, adapting Reki Kawahara's light novel series about players trapped inside a deadly virtual-reality MMORPG where death in the game means death in real life.

The five members of the Cultural Research Club - Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki - encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch bodies without warning.

Wolf Children releases in Japanese theaters, Mamoru Hosoda's original film about a young mother raising two half-wolf children alone after their werewolf father's early death, animated by Madhouse alongside Hosoda's own Studio Chizu.

Contemporary French dining and seafood above the Pearl River on the hotel’s 100th floor.

Karl Strauss Brewing Company - 4S Ranch in 4S Ranch / Rancho Bernardo. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Square Enix launched Dragon Quest X, the series' first MMORPG, on the Wii in Japan on 2 August 2012. It topped Japanese charts with 367,000 copies in its debut week.

United Front Games' open-world crime game Sleeping Dogs launched on PlayStation 3, Windows and Xbox 360 on 14 August 2012 in North America, published by Square Enix.

Sany opened its $818 million Lingang facility near Shanghai, calling it the world's largest excavator factory. Automated underground tunnels move structures and components through 5.9 million square feet of production space.

Toei Animation airs One Piece: Episode of Nami - Koukaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna, a newly animated television special retelling the Arlong Park arc and Nami’s backstory.

On 25 August 2012 NASA's Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause about 121 AU from the Sun, the first human-made object to reach interstellar space; NASA confirmed it on 12 September 2013.

Sunrise's Gintama: Yorinuki Gintama-san on Theater 2D plays in select Japanese theaters, recutting the Shinsengumi Crisis and Kabukicho Four Devas TV arcs into a two-part movie presentation.

ADAC Luftrettung signs a framework order for 14 EC145 T2 (later renamed H145) and 3 EC135 P2e helicopters, built at what is now Airbus Helicopters' Donauwörth plant, the model whose build process this film documents.

Unit 1 supplies the grid following refurbishment; subsequent commercial-service milestones remain separate.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

Gintama': Enchousen begins airing, a 13-episode continuation of Sunrise's samurai-comedy anime adapting Hideaki Sorachi's manga, following the Yorozuya through the "Kintoki impostor" and Yoshiwara arcs.