Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Boeing's 747-8 Freighter, the largest airplane the company had built, flew for the first time from Paine Field on 8 February 2010, a year later than planned. The 3 hour 39 minute flight began a test program of more than 1,600 flight hours.

The seven-part original video series Mobile Suit Gundam UC begins release, a Sunrise-animated adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s light novels set decades after the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

Bencotto Italian Kitchen in Little Italy. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Tim Burton's live-action Alice in Wonderland, starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp, opened in US theaters on 5 March 2010 in 3D and IMAX 3D. It grossed over US$1 billion worldwide and won two Academy Awards.

Yusuke Takada’s contemporary French restaurant balances guest, cuisine and space in a compact dining room.

Avalanche Studios' Just Cause 2 launched in North America on 23 March 2010 (Europe 26 March) on PlayStation 3, Windows and Xbox 360, published by Square Enix.

Sunrise's Gintama: Dai Hanseikai airs as a comedic anniversary special tied to a Gintama live stage event, with the cast bickering over screen time while looking back on four years of the anime.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American animated fantasy film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and written by Sanders, DeBlois, and Will Davies, based on the 2003 novel by British author Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, and T.J. Miller.

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - Escondido in Escondido. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

P.A. Works' Angel Beats! begins broadcast, following Otonashi, who wakes with no memories in the afterlife and joins a rebellious student militia fighting the mysterious 'Angel' in a school suspended between life and death.

The sixth season begins after the "Baseball World Cup" has ended. Goro regained his passion for baseball in Japan thanks to his friends, and left to join the Hornets baseball team in preparation for the new season.

Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for a child because of her small stature.

A DVD-only special episode of Nodame Cantabile: Finale airs, set before the main season begins and centered on pianist Miki Kiyora's run at a competition in Paris.

The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

A TV special adaptation of Gosho Aoyama's Magic Kaito begins airing, following phantom thief Kaito Kuroba as he hunts a legendary gem while evading police and a shadowy organization.

Carrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year again at the 45th Academy of Country Music Awards on 18 April 2010 in Las Vegas, the first woman to win it twice, as Miranda Lambert took Album of the Year and Lady Antebellum took Song and Single.

Nier, the Drakengard spin-off directed by Yoko Taro, launched in Japan on 22 April 2010 as Nier Replicant for PlayStation 3 and Nier Gestalt for Xbox 360, with Western versions following in late April.

The Tatami Galaxy begins its TV run, a fast-talking college comedy in which an unnamed third-year student replays his stalled campus life over and over, chasing the 'rose-colored campus life' he never found.

Production I.G's xxxHOLiC Rou begins release, an OVA continuation of CLAMP's xxxHOLiC in which Kimihiro Watanuki, now running Yuuko's wish-granting shop a decade later, is drawn into investigating the dreams of his old rival Shizuka Doumeki.

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen opens in Japanese theaters, a feature retelling of the manga's Benizakura arc that finds Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura investigating a corrupted replica of a legendary sword.

Square Enix and Nintendo released Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 in Japan on 28 April 2010. It sold 1.2 million copies by July 2010 and earned 37/40 from Famitsu.

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

Firestone Walker's bourbon-barrel-aged Parabola imperial stout, previously draft-only and an Anniversary Ale component, went on sale in 22-ounce bottles at its Paso Robles taproom on 8 May 2010, its first stand-alone vintage.

Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 at Hamburg on 19 May 2010, putting the double-decker superjumbo into European airline service weeks later.

Shrek Forever After is a 2010 American animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 1990 children's picture book Shrek! by William Steig and produced by DreamWorks Animation. Directed by Mike Mitchell, and written by Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke, it is the sequel to Shrek the Third (2007) and the fourth installment in the Shrek franchise.

Norwegian Cruise Line took delivery of the 153,000-ton Norwegian Epic from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, at the time the largest ship ever built there.

Lee Unkrich's Toy Story 3 opened in US theaters on 18 June 2010, with Andy heading to college and his toys accidentally donated to a daycare. It won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.

John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68 in the Wimbledon first round, finishing on 24 June 2010 after 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days. It broke the previous longest-match record of 6 hours 33 minutes.