Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Zaha Hadid Architects' exoskeleton-clad One Thousand Museum tower finished construction on Miami's Biscayne Boulevard, one of the late architect's last works.

Katsuhiro Otomo announced at Anime Expo 2019 that Sunrise would produce a new Akira anime aiming to adapt the entire manga, not just the portion covered by the 1988 film.

TMS Entertainment's Dr. Stone begins airing, a science-adventure series following Senkuu Ishigami as he works to rebuild civilization after a mysterious event turns all of humanity to stone.

Fire Force begins airing, a TV anime adapting Atsushi Ohkubo's Weekly Shōnen Magazine manga about Special Fire Force Company 8, a brigade that battles Infernals — people who spontaneously combust into fire demons — in a world ruled by a mysterious church.

WIT STUDIO's Vinland Saga begins broadcast, adapting Makoto Yukimura's historical manga about a young Viking, Thorfinn, seeking revenge against the mercenary who killed his father.

CoMix Wave's Weathering With You opens in Japanese theaters, Makoto Shinkai's romantic fantasy following runaway teenager Hodaka Morishima and Hina Amano, a girl who can part the clouds, across a rain-soaked Tokyo.

The third season of the Chinese donghua Fights Break Sphere (Doupo Cangqiong) streams online, continuing its adaptation of Tian Can Tu Dou's web novel about young cultivator Xiao Yan.

The Master of Diabolism 2 (Mo Dao Zu Shi: Xian Yun Pian) streams, with B.CMAY Pictures continuing the donghua adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel as Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji investigate a cursed demonic arm.

J.C.Staff's KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!- Legend of Crimson opens in Japanese theaters, an original story following Kazuma Satou and his misfit party -- Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness -- as a bounty on Megumin's hometown pulls them into a new crisis.

On 5 September 2019, Adventure Canada passengers aboard the ice-class MS Ocean Endeavour became the first members of the public allowed to visit the wreck of Sir John Franklin's HMS Erebus in the Canadian Arctic.

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll opens in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation side story following Violet Evergarden as she tutors a grieving heiress, Isabella York, in the ways of high society.

The Legend of Hei (Luo Xiaohei Zhanji) opens in Chinese theaters, an original fantasy film about a displaced cat spirit who is separated from a band of spirit creatures by a mysterious human and must decide where his loyalties lie.

Porsche began series production of its first all-electric sports car, the Taycan, at a newly built factory extension in Zuffenhausen, Germany.

Developer Alchemy Properties finished a seven-year conversion of the Woolworth Building's top 30 floors into luxury condos, a bet on keeping the 1913 landmark economically viable.

Beijing opened Daxing International Airport, a vast starfish-shaped terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to relieve pressure on the capital’s overcrowded main airport.

Production doA releases Is the Order a Rabbit?? ~Sing For You~, a one-episode OVA bundled with the manga in which Rabbit House regular Chino Kafuu must overcome stage fright before singing solo at her graduation.

On October 1, 2019, Airbus opened a highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for the A320 Family at its Hamburg-Finkenwerder site, using 20 robots to drill, countersink and rivet fuselage joints. The line was built to help meet the type's order backlog of more than 6,500 aircraft.

Bones premieres the fourth season of My Hero Academia, adapting Kohei Horikoshi's manga as Shigaraki's League of Villains and Overhaul's yakuza clash for control of Japan's criminal underworld while Deku begins a new internship.

Otis finished a roughly decade-long modernisation of all 68 elevators in New York's Empire State Building, capped by a custom glass car serving the 102nd-floor observatory.

Sharefun Studio releases Scissor Seven Season 2 (Wu Liuqi: Zui Qiang Fa Xing Shi), continuing the action-comedy donghua about a forgetful assassin working as a small-town barber while chasing clues to his missing memories.

CloverWorks' Saekano the Movie: Finale opens in Japanese theaters, closing out the Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata light-novel series as Tomoya Aki finishes the game he and Megumi Kato set out to build.

Tunnel boring machine Wanda finished excavating the southern tube of the Albvorland Tunnel, the last major breakthrough on Deutsche Bahn's Stuttgart-Ulm high-speed line. The 8-kilometer twin-tube tunnel near Wendlingen am Neckar was built by Implenia and cuts travel time between Stuttgart and Ulm to roughly 30 minutes.

Zaha Hadid Architects’ twisting Beijing skyscraper opened with a 194-metre atrium spanning two towers built around a live subway line.

Frozen 2 (stylized as Frozen II) is a 2019 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The second film in the Frozen franchise, following the 2013 film, it was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee and written by Lee, from a story they conceived with Marc Smith, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Robert Lopez.

The compilation film Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 3 opens in Japanese theaters, recutting the third arc of the Die Neue These reboot into a feature covering the closing stages of the civil wars within the Alliance and the Empire.

The agency is now likely to be at least three years late in delivering its new booster. I think that new manufacturing has caused some of the delays we’ve seen. No one welds the way that we’re welding material at the thicknesses we’re welding.

The 462m Lakhta Center opened on the outskirts of St Petersburg, becoming Europe's tallest building and the world's northernmost skyscraper, taller than the Empire State Building.

Beijing-based 51World launched a real-time virtual replica of Shanghai spanning nearly 4,000 square kilometres, built from satellite, drone, and sensor data.

Myrtha Pools installed a 25-meter, 1-million-liter competition pool inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center in seven days for the International Swimming League's inaugural Grand Final, held 20-21 December 2019.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, also known as Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker, is a 2019 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. Produced by Lucasfilm and Bad Robot, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the third and final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), and the last episo

Tishman Speyer's Omniturm opened in Frankfurt as Germany's first true mixed-use high-rise, with separate lobbies letting offices and apartments share the same elevator core without ever mixing.

J.C.Staff's The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Reawakened streams on Netflix, a six-episode continuation bridging the anime's second season and Final Arc as the psychic teenager Saiki Kusuo tries to live an ordinary life.

Apple executives this week made an unusual and surprising announcement, detailing the company's work on an entirely revamped high-end modular Mac...

Audi and Nvidia have announced they are working together to bring a fully self-driving car to the consumer market by the year 2020.

The initial solar projects planned for completion by the end of 2017 will generate up to 41 megawatts (MW) of power at Amazon facilities in California, New Jersey, Maryland, Nevada and Delaware. Depending on the specific project, time of year and other factors, a solar installation could generate as much as 80 percent of a single fulfillment facility’s annual energy needs.

Flash is finally on its deathbed. Adobe is planning to remove support for the software by the end of 2020. Microsoft will pull the plug by 2019 and Google will phase out Flash over the next few years in an undeclared timeline.

Production I.G's Haikyuu!! Land vs. Air OVA premieres, a two-episode special covering the Tokyo qualifier rounds for the national volleyball tournament as Nekoma, Fukurodani, Nohebi, and Itachiyama compete for the remaining berths.

After eighteen months of escalating tariffs the two sides signed an 'historic and enforceable agreement' in the East Room on 15 January 2020 — purchase commitments, intellectual-property rules and a ban on forced technology transfer. Most of the tariffs stayed in place.

Kinema Citrus's Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul opens in Japanese theaters, following Riko, Reg, and their new companion Nanachi as they descend into the Abyss's treacherous fifth layer and confront the mysterious White Whistle Bondrewd, whose past is tied to Nanachi's own.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the Sonic video game series. It is the first installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series, it was directed by Jeff Fowler, written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, and stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Neal McDonough, and Jim Carrey.

Michael Rafidi opens Albi in Southeast Washington, cooking over a wood hearth; after a 2025 renovation the menu leans further into his Palestinian heritage.

The Tomoyasu Murata Company releases a bundled Haikyu!! OVA, ten short stop-motion episodes packaged with the manga's 42nd volume and featuring the Karasuno team recreated as puppets.

The God of War Dominates begins streaming, a long-running Chinese donghua from Ruo Hong Culture following martial-arts genius Qin Chen after he is reborn three centuries later in the remote province of Tian Wu.

Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.

In December last year TSMC started to work on its 5nm process. In the following January we heard from the firm's CEO about the progress of these plans, with a target launch date set for H1 2020. Now a recent report suggests that TSMC is confident of reaching its previously publicised goals, as it has started to allocate between 300 and 400 R&D staff to work on developing its 3nm process.

The Chinese donghua All Saints Street begins streaming, an ONA about a young demon named Nini secretly living among vampire, werewolf, and angel roommates while hiding an ancient evil sealed within him.

Studio Signpost picks up the TV adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara's historical war manga Kingdom, following 1,000-man commander Xin as Qin's unification campaign pushes into the neighboring warring states.