Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The Hungaroring's twisting layout is often called Monaco without the walls, and closes the first half of the season.

World Youth Day is held in Seoul from 3 to 8 August 2027, the first in South Korea and only the second in Asia after Manila in 1995.

The Bluey Movie is an upcoming animated comedy film based on the Australian children's television series Bluey. It is written and directed by series creator Joe Brumm, and is produced by Ludo Studio and BBC Studios.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs 6-30 August 2027, its 80th edition and three weeks of performing arts across the city.

Kenyans elect a president and the members of the National Assembly and Senate on 10 August 2027. Incumbent William Ruto is seeking a second term.

The untitled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem sequel is an upcoming American animated superhero film directed by Jeff Rowe. Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, it is the sequel to Mutant Mayhem (2023) and features the returning voices of Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu, and Brady Noon as the Turtles.

gamescom runs 23-29 August 2027 at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, opening with gamescom dev and Opening Night Live before the public days.

Virginia is expanding the world's first bridge-tunnel, adding new tubes and widened approaches at Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base on Earth, more than 50 years after it first opened.

The University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing Forestry University began building Xiong'an campuses in November 2023 under a 'one university, two campuses' model that keeps their Beijing sites and shares staff, libraries and labs. Fifteen Beijing universities are to have campuses there, all of them finished by 2030.

The New Simpsons Movie is an upcoming American animated comedy film based on the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons created by Matt Groening. Produced by 20th Century Animation and Gracie Films, it is the second feature film adaptation of the series and the sequel to The Simpsons Movie (2007).

Europe's largest consumer electronics show runs for five days at Messe Berlin, with the organisers billing more than 2,000 brands across the grounds.

The Temple of Speed holds the highest average speeds in Formula 1, and the Tifosi fill the banking whatever Ferrari's season looks like.

The 21st World Athletics Championships are held at the Beijing National Stadium, the second time the city has hosted after 2015. Ten days of track and field in the stadium built for the 2008 Olympics.

The Spanish Grand Prix runs at Madrid's Madring, the part-street, part-permanent circuit around IFEMA that took the race off Barcelona.

The FOMC announces its rate decision on the second day of its September 14-15 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 59%, Hike 25bps 20%, Cut 25bps 6%.

The 46th Ryder Cup is played at Adare Manor in County Limerick, the first held in Ireland since the K Club in 2006. The Irish government is expected to spend €58 million on the event, €22.5 million of it an event licence fee to the European Tour.

Baku pairs a two-kilometre straight along the Caspian with a climb through the medieval old city barely wide enough for one car.

The 11th Rugby World Cup opens at Perth Stadium and runs to the final at Stadium Australia in Sydney on 13 November. It is the first tournament branded the Men's Rugby World Cup and the first contested by 24 teams, with South Africa defending the title and Hong Kong making their debut.

The United States federal fiscal year 2028 starts on 1 October 2027 - the date by which Congress must have funded the government or shut it down.

Turkiye returns to the calendar for the first time since 2021, bringing back Turn 8 - a four-apex left taken at close to 300 km/h.

The 14th Cricket World Cup is played across South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, the second time South Africa and Zimbabwe have co-hosted after 2003 and the first time Namibia has hosted. Cricket South Africa confirmed eight grounds including the Wanderers, Kingsmead and Newlands.

Formula 1's original night race runs under floodlights around Marina Bay, in humidity that costs drivers several kilos a race.

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.