Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.

Baccano! Bangai-hen premieres, three DVD-exclusive episodes rounding out Brain's Base's adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels with extra material for the 1930s Prohibition-era cast.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Sunrise's second-season continuation of the mecha-political thriller, begins airing as exiled prince Lelouch vi Britannia resumes his hidden war against the Britannian Empire.

Soul Eater begins broadcast, Bones' adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's manga set at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, where weapon-and-meister pairs collect souls to forge new Death Scythes while defending Death City from monsters.

M.S.C releases Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen Final, the concluding OVA arc of the Prince of Tennis National Tournament storyline, as Seigaku faces the tournament's strongest team, Rikkaidai.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 high fantasy film, directed by Andrew Adamson, and written by Adamson, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is based on the 1951 novel Prince Caspian, the second in the children's book series by C.

Hal Film Maker releases Aria the Origination: That Little Secret Place..., a bonus special adapting a bridging chapter of the Aria manga and set between episodes five and six of the Aria the Origination TV series.

Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

Kyoto Animation releases Clannad: Another World, Tomoyo Chapter, a single-episode OVA retelling the anime's finale from an alternate timeline centered on Tomoya and Tomoyo's relationship.

InuYasha: Kuroi Tessaiga debuts, a 30-minute InuYasha special screened at Rumiko Takahashi manga exhibitions across Japan before it was later folded, slightly re-edited, into an episode of InuYasha: The Final Act.

Studio Rikka begins streaming Time of Eve, a near-future ONA in which high-schooler Rikuo discovers a hidden cafe where humans and the androids he was taught to treat as tools are met as equals.

The Detroit Metal City OVA begins release, a Studio 4°C-animated comedy adapting Kiminori Wakasugi’s manga about a mild-mannered pop musician forced to front an extreme death-metal act.

The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm, the fifth film in ufotable's adaptation of Kinoko Nasu's novel series, opens in Japanese theaters, following Shiki Ryougi as she shelters a runaway boy convinced he has murdered his own mother.

The Shanghai World Financial Center opened in 2008 after developers were forced to redesign its circular summit opening into a trapezoid when the public read it as a Japanese flag.

The Loro Parque Company opened Siam Park in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, a Thai-themed water park that would go on to be ranked the world's best by TripAdvisor.

Kyoto Animation releases a standalone Lucky☆Star OVA, six unconnected bonus vignettes starring Konata, Kagami, Tsukasa, and the rest of the cast, including an MMORPG story arc and a surreal dream sequence.

The television anime Toradora! begins airing, a J.C.STAFF-produced romantic comedy adapting Yuyuko Takemiya's light novels about an unlikely alliance between mild-mannered Ryuuji Takasu and the diminutive, fierce Taiga Aisaka.

Kyoto Animation's sequel series Clannad: After Story begins airing, following Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa into adulthood after the events of the first Clannad season.

Shaft releases Goku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, a follow-up OVA continuing Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei with more stories about the terminally pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki and the eccentric students of Class 2-H.

A paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, signed Satoshi Nakamoto, is posted to a cryptography mailing list. It describes a chain of proof-of-work timestamps that lets strangers transact without a trusted third party.

GONZO releases the first episode of a two-part Seto no Hanayome OVA, new stand-alone shorts reuniting the cast as San and Luna's overprotective fathers keep testing Nagasumi's nerve during their third year of school.

A privately financed airport built to rival Madrid-Barajas opened near Ciudad Real in December 2008, before closing within four years as one of Spain's most notorious infrastructure failures.

Maikaze's doujin OVA Touhou Niji Sousaku Doujin Anime: Musou Kakyou begins release, an unofficial fan adaptation of the Touhou Project game series following shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei investigating a rash of thefts in Gensokyo.

MADHOUSE's second Hajime no Ippo TV series begins airing, continuing amateur-turned-pro boxer Ippo Makunouchi's climb through Japan's boxing ranks.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 begins its TV run, continuing Takashi Natsume's efforts to return the spirit names bound in his late grandmother's Book of Friends, with his bodyguard youkai Nyanko-sensei in tow.

The two-episode OVA xxxHOLiC Shunmuki continues Production I.G's adaptation of CLAMP's manga, picking up directly after xxxHOLiC Kei and tying into the linked Tsubasa Chronicle OVA project.

Tsubasa: Spring Thunder Chronicles premieres, a two-part OVA bundled with the Tsubasa and xxxHOLiC manga's limited editions, continuing Sakura and Syaoran's dimension-hopping search for her lost memories.

A set of bonus Hidamari Sketch x 365 shorts bundled across several Blu-ray/DVD volumes, following the residents of Yunohana Sou through everyday slice-of-life vignettes.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha airs Lupin the 3rd Vs Detective Conan, a crossover TV special pitting master thief Lupin III against teenage detective Conan Edogawa amid a royal succession crisis.

Bones' second, manga-faithful adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist begins airing, following brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric's search for the Philosopher's Stone after a forbidden alchemy ritual costs them their bodies.

Square Enix releases Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete, a re-edited home-video version of the Advent Children film adding roughly 26 minutes of new and revised footage.

Gainax's Gurren Lagann The Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars opens in Japanese theaters, the second of two compilation films recapping and continuing the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann TV series with new footage covering its back half.

A bonus OVA for the Spice and Wolf light novels arrives on home video, catching up with traveling merchant Kraft Lawrence and the wolf goddess Holo as her illness and a budding rivalry with a fellow traveler draw the two closer together.

TMS Entertainment releases Detective Conan: The Stranger in 10 Years, an OVA imagining Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara growing up alongside their friends after never taking the antidote to APTX 4869.

TMS Entertainment begins releasing Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, an OVA prequel set 243 years before the original Saint Seiya that follows young saint-in-training Tenma and his childhood friend Alone, chosen vessel of Hades.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the second of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, opens in Japanese theaters, introducing new pilots Asuka and Mari as the Angel attacks escalate toward the Third Impact.

A bonus OVA on Clannad After Story's final DVD volume reimagines the story from an alternate timeline, casting Fujibayashi Kyou as the series' central heroine in place of Nagisa.

Shaft's Bakemonogatari begins airing, the first entry in the Monogatari series following high school student Koyomi Araragi as he helps girls afflicted by supernatural 'oddity' curses after narrowly surviving a vampire attack.

Bell delivered the first production Bell 429, serial number 57006, to Air Methods and MercyOne from its helicopter factory in Mirabel, Quebec.

A compilation OVA recapping all 25 episodes of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 releases, condensing the second season's story for viewers catching up on the series.

the Garden of sinners Chapter 7, the final chapter of Kara no Kyoukai's theatrical film series, releases in Japanese theaters, resolving Shiki Ryougi's murderous impulses as she and Mikiya close in on a serial killer echoing crimes from her past.

Redline, Madhouse's hand-drawn racing film seven years in the making, opens in Japanese theaters, following daredevil driver JP as he competes in a deadly interplanetary race for a shot at the title and at fellow racer Sonoshee.

The Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection begins staggered release, four bonus episodes from Bones filling in side stories about Winry, Riza, Izumi Curtis and a young Roy Mustang alongside the main Brotherhood series.

Gintama: Shiroyasha Koutan, a short OVA first shown at Jump Super Anime Tour 2008, releases on DVD, presenting a brief trailer-style glimpse of an imagined Gintama movie centered on Gintoki's past as the 'White Demon.'

Fairy Tail begins broadcast, an adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga about the wizards of the guild Fairy Tail - fire mage Natsu Dragneel, celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia, and their rowdy guildmates - taking on magical jobs across the kingdom of Fiore.

A bonus OVA continuing Shaft's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comedy, following pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki through fresh absurdist despairs, including a zombie-movie parody.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.

N787BA lifted off from Paine Field at 10:27 am PST and landed three hours later at Boeing Field, reaching 180 knots and 13,200 feet. The first airliner with a primarily composite airframe flew more than two years later than Boeing first promised.

Jungsik Yim opened Jungsik in Seoul in 2009 with an argument to make: that Korean cooking belonged in fine dining on its own terms rather than as a set of borrowed French techniques. The restaurant went on to hold two Michelin stars in Seoul and opened a New York sibling that earned three, making it one of the few Korean names to carry that weight abroad.

Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.