Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

French cooking with Chinese influences in a historic Kyoto house. Current lunches start at ¥13,200 and the seasonal dinner is ¥25,300, plus 10% service.

On 3 February 2012 EASA issued Type Certificate A-176 for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (RRJ-95B), the first Russian large passenger aircraft to meet CS-25 and the clearance for European airlines to fly it.

At the 54th Grammys at Staples Center, Adele won all six of her nominations, including Record, Song and Album of the Year, tying Beyoncé's one-night record for a woman. Whitney Houston had died the day before; host LL Cool J opened the show with a prayer and Jennifer Hudson sang 'I Will Always Love You'.

Square Enix released the rhythm game Theatrhythm Final Fantasy on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on 16 February 2012. It sold 112,344 copies in Japan within a month.

Steins;Gate: Egoistic Poriomania, an OVA bundled with the TV series' final Blu-ray/DVD volume, releases, following the Future Gadget Lab members some months after the anime's ending as they plan a trip to America.

Puesto La Jolla in La Jolla. Published specials, menus and service conditions are shown in the restaurant details.

Brain's Base begins releasing a string of OVA episodes for History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, bundled across several manga tankobon volumes and continuing the story of martial-arts trainee Kenichi Shirahama and the Ryozanpaku dojo.

Unit 6 goes offline for the prolonged post-Fukushima safety-review period.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, the Nintendo 3DS entry built around Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery exam, released in Japan on 29 March 2012 and topped the Media Create chart with 213,579 copies in its first week.

Taylor Swift won Entertainer of the Year for the second straight year at the 47th Academy of Country Music Awards on 1 April 2012 in Las Vegas, with KISS and Bono among the guests and Miranda Lambert winning Album of the Year.

Daily Lives of High School Boys Specials collects extra episodes of the deadpan high-school comedy that were left off the TV broadcast and released only on home video.

Xebec and AIC's Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 begins release, a remake OVA sending the battleship Yamato on a mission to save Earth from the invading Gamilas.

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.