Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Argentines choose a president and renew Congress on 24 October 2027, the first presidential election since Javier Milei's 2023 win.

Austin's purpose-built circuit opens with a blind 40-metre climb into a hairpin, and borrows corners from Silverstone, Istanbul and Hockenheim.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its October 26-27 2027 meeting. On 21 September 2026 Kalshi last traded Fed maintains rate 54%, Hike 25bps 46%, Cut 25bps 7%.

At 2,200 metres above sea level the air is thin enough to change how the cars cool, brake and make power, and the lap ends through a baseball stadium.

The Bureau of Meteorology's official tropical cyclone season for the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April. An average season brings 10 cyclones, three or four of which cross the coast.

Interlagos runs anticlockwise over a hillside, is short enough to bunch the field, and has decided more championships late than anywhere else.

The only race Formula 1 runs on a Saturday night, straight down the Strip past the casinos at close to 350 km/h.

Frozen 3 is an upcoming American animated musical fantasy film written and directed by Jennifer Lee. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, it is the third feature film in the Frozen franchise, following Frozen II.

Microsoft's next Xbox, Project Helix, uses a custom AMD chip with Zen 6 cores and RDNA 5 graphics; Microsoft has given no release date, with reports pointing to late 2027 and developer alpha hardware in 2027.

The 32nd UN climate conference is held in Addis Ababa in November 2027, the first COP in sub-Saharan Africa in sixteen years, with the African Group holding the presidency.

The penultimate round runs at night at Lusail, a fast, flowing circuit built for MotoGP and hard on tyres.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its December 7-8 2027 meeting. The meeting is one of the four in 2027 that comes with a Summary of Economic Projections - the "dot plot" - and a press conference. On 21 September 2026 Kalshi last traded Fed maintains rate 73%, Cut 25bps 13%, Hike 25bps 6%.

Every obligation the Cyber Resilience Act carries comes into force: products with digital elements may only be placed on the EU market if they meet the Act's essential cybersecurity requirements, carry a conformity assessment and are supported with security updates for their declared support period.

The season ends at Yas Marina as the sun sets, and for the first time the finale is a Sprint weekend too.

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum is an upcoming fantasy film directed by Andy Serkis, written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Phoebe Gittins, and Arty Papageorgiou, and based on characters created by J. Expanding on producer Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003) and The Hobbit (2012–2014) film trilogies, it follows Strider's hunt for Gollum between the events of the two trilogies and during the

Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars are American superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. They are respectively the fifth and sixth installments in the Avengers film series following Avengers: Endgame (2019), and the 39th and 40th films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Berlin's Tegel Airport, built by Berliners in 90 days to keep the 1948 Berlin Airlift flying, is being redeveloped into the Urban Tech Republic research park and Schumacher Quartier housing district.

Kalshi’s recession market for 2027 prices the chance of two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth between Q4 2026 and Q4 2027, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimates — despite the KXRECSSNBER ticker, no NBER call is involved. On 20 September 2026 it sat at 25%, its 2026 contract at 6%, and Polymarket’s cumulative "recession by end of 2027" book, which also counts an NBER announcement, was higher still at 34.5%.

Greatest eclipse falls at 15:07:46 UT on 2028-01-26, where the annular phase lasts 10 minutes 27 seconds on a path 323.0 km wide; the longest annularity anywhere on the track is 10m30.6s. The path of annularity crosses Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Suriname, Spain and Portugal, and a partial eclipse is visible from eastern North America, C. & South America, western Europe and northwestern Africa.

The NFL championship game for the 2027 season is played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the city's fourth Super Bowl and the second at this venue after Super Bowl LIII in 2019. CBS has the national broadcast.

The UAW's contracts with General Motors, Ford and Stellantis run out on 30 April 2028 - a date the union chose so members could strike on May Day.

Victoria's largest road project, burying the missing link in Melbourne's ring road in twin three-lane tunnels. Estimated date.

The United Kingdom and Ireland co-host the European Championship across nine stadiums. Estimated date.

Los Angeles hosts its third Games after 1932 and 1984, using almost entirely existing venues.

Los Angeles is preparing to host the 2028 Summer Olympics with zero new venues and a 'no-car' transit plan, a bold bet for a city not known for its public transport.

The five-year UPS-Teamsters agreement covering some 340,000 workers expires on 31 July 2028, and the union's president has already said a strike is coming.

The 2028 Summer Paralympics, also known as the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Paralympic Games, and branded as LA28, will be the 18th edition of the Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee. The Games are scheduled to take place from August 15 to August 27, 2028, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The pin sits at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower has passed its 100th floor and is on track to become the world's tallest building, edging past a kilometre in height once its spire is counted.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

The 2028 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be the eleventh edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, co-hosted by Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket from 21 October to 19 November 2028. It will be the first time that New Zealand would host the event, while Australia had previously hosted the competition in 2022. The article names no venues, so this pin sits at Melbourne Cricket Ground, the lead host's flagship ground.

Election Day for the 2028 U.S. presidential race is November 7, 2028, and Kalshi's winner market was still wide open on 20 September 2026: J.D. Vance led at 22%, followed by Jon Ossoff at 12% and Marco Rubio at 9.6%. The winner takes office on January 20, 2029.

Quebec is replacing the perpetually troubled retractable roof of Montreal’s 1976 Olympic Stadium with a new fixed structure, targeting a 2028 reopening.

JASM's second fab in Kikuyo, Kumamoto - switched from 6nm-class chips to TSMC's 3nm process - is due to start volume production in 2028 at 15,000 12-inch wafers a month, making Japan's first 3nm chips about a year after the end-2027 start TSMC first promised.

An 18 km immersed tunnel under the Baltic links Denmark and Germany, cutting Hamburg to Copenhagen rail travel to about 2.5 hours. Estimated date.

Blizzard's next mainline Diablo, set in a Sanctuary where Diablo has already won, is targeted for Spring 2029.

The 30 km Blue Line adds 14 stations across Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, International City, Dubai Creek Harbour, Mirdif and Al Warqa, with 15.5 km of underground track and 14.5 km elevated. The RTA awarded the construction contract to a consortium of MAPA, LIMAK and CRRC in December 2024 and expects 28 trains to carry 200,000 riders a day by 2030, rising to 320,000 by 2040.

Canada's fixed-date law puts the next general election on the third Monday of October 2029, which is October 15. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had the Liberal Party at 60%, the Conservative Party at 38% and the NDP at 3.5%; a lost confidence vote would bring the date forward.

Metro Vancouver is spending CAD $6BN extending the SkyTrain Expo Line 16km from Surrey to Langley, after scrapping a cheaper light-rail plan that would already have opened.

A leading naval architect recently gave some predictions for the future of 3D printing in the yacht manufacturing industry. The technology stands to hugely improve efficiency in the manufacturing process, an industrial-grade printer should be ready by the end of this year, and 3D printing entire yachts will be possible by 2030

Blizzard confirmed its next StarCraft game abandons the RTS format for an open-world shooter, with development leads calling 2030 a "solid" release target meant to keep the team honest and focused.

A purpose-built capital 45 km east of Cairo, home to Africa's tallest tower and intended for six million residents. Estimated date.