Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

Lululemon's first Polish store opened in Warsaw's Westfield Arkadia through franchise partner Arion Retail Group, its 100th store in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

Boston's new NWSL club lost its first-ever match 1-0 to reigning champion Gotham FC, on a 55th-minute Esther González goal, before an announced 30,207, a league record for an expansion team's home opener. The club splits its first season between Gillette Stadium and Centreville Bank Stadium before moving to White Stadium.

A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

North America's largest seafood trade show opened its 44th edition in Boston with 1,215 exhibiting companies from 50 countries across 247,915 net square feet.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant to improve follow-up tone and cut teaser-style phrasing such as "If you want...".

Nike revealed its national-team kits for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, starting with the USA, Canada and Brazil, built from its new Aero-FIT knit that moves more than twice the air of its old fabrics and made entirely from textile waste.

Oracle's Java conference ran three days in Redwood Shores, opening with the "Java for an AI World" keynote on Java 26's release day and closing with a community keynote.

Fiscal 2025 revenue rose 5% to $11.1 billion but EPS fell to $13.26, and Lululemon guided 2026 EPS to just $12.10-$12.30 as tariffs, discount pull-backs and proxy-fight costs weighed.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4 mini in ChatGPT for Free and Go users through the Thinking feature, and as a rate-limit fallback for GPT-5.4 Thinking.

From 18 March 2026 Harry Reid International Airport set daily heat records 12 days running, broke the all-time March high of 93°F five times and peaked at 98°F on 25 March, in a month that averaged 73°F, 12.2°F above normal, with no rain.

The first episode of Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 1st Stage releases, kicking off david production's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's seventh JoJo part as an alternate-history transcontinental horse race across 1890s America.

An adaptation of Andy Weir's novel starring Ryan Gosling as a lone astronaut who wakes with no memory, tasked with saving Earth from a species-ending threat to the sun.

BTS's first studio album in nearly six years, recorded after all seven members completed military service, sold 532,000 copies in its first US week and opened at No. 1 with 641,000 units, the biggest week for a group since 2014.

BTS's first performance as a full group in nearly four years, BTS The Comeback Live | Arirang, was the first standalone concert staged at Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square and drew 18.4 million Netflix viewers.

Jack-of-All-Trades, Party of None, animation studio42's adaptation of the fantasy about an enchanter cast out of the hero party, announced a second season after its final episode aired.

Abbott closed its $105-a-share cash purchase of Cologuard maker Exact Sciences, which became a wholly owned Abbott subsidiary; Exact Sciences shares last traded on Nasdaq on 20 March.

Bulgari presented Eclettica, a 160-piece high-jewelry, watch, bag and fragrance collection built around nine Capolavori masterpieces, at a gala inside Milan's 17th-century Villa Arconati attended by Anne Hathaway, Dua Lipa and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The WNBA Board of Governors unanimously ratified the new collective bargaining agreement a day after the players, locking in a $7 million salary cap, $1.4 million max salaries and revenue sharing from the 2026 season to 2032.

Shiga toxin-producing E. coli was found in All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs delivered to every Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd region in Germany, the same product recalled for Salmonella in December.

Boyd's first new property in 20 years opened at noon on Boulder Highway with more than 450 slot machines and fully automated table games, taking over the staff and customers of the Jokers Wild next door.

MAPPA confirmed a fourth season of Jujutsu Kaisen, subtitled The Culling Game Part 2, off the back of the third season's finale, continuing Gege Akutami's sorcerer death-game arc.

Four Michigan shoppers sued Lululemon in Detroit federal court, claiming it passed IEEPA tariff costs on to customers through higher prices and should share any government refunds with them.

Lululemon entered Hungary with a 250 m2 franchise store at Deák Ferenc utca 19 on Budapest's Fashion Street, run by Arion Retail Group.

A second season of the Iseleve anime, based on Miku's light novel about a bullied teen who levels up in another world and brings his new powers home, was announced on the AnimeJapan 2026 stage.

The ground reopened with Mexico against Portugal after closing in May 2024 for a rebuild covering modern screens, new lighting and redeveloped press areas and entrances, leaving a capacity of about 90,000. It will host five 2026 World Cup matches, making it the only stadium to stage three tournaments.

AP-HP started construction on the former Stellantis plant site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine after two years of demolition and decontamination, with the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis signing the hospital's building permit on 24 September 2025. The campus will bring together a new hospital taking the medical and surgical work of the Bichat and Beaujon hospitals, a Universite Paris Cite health faculty and student housing, complete by 2032.

The Shanghai company said it had built its 10,000th humanoid, having taken nearly two years over the first thousand and just three months over the last five thousand - a fourfold acceleration it presents as the industry crossing from pilots into large-scale commercial deployment.

After Brad Reese, grandson of the cup's inventor, accused Hershey of swapping milk chocolate for cheaper compound coatings, CEO Kirk Tanner said the company will return to classic milk and dark chocolate recipes by 2027.

Oracle staff in several countries were told by early-morning email that it was their last working day, as WARN notices went in for Seattle and four California sites.