Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Alcohol Change UK's month-long Dry January challenge asks people to go alcohol-free for all of January, a campaign that began with 4,000 people in 2013 and drew over 200,000 sign-ups in 2025.

Kalshi’s largest crypto event settles on Bitcoin’s price at 12:00 a.m. ET on January 1, 2027, splitting the outcome into $5,000 buckets. On 20 September 2026, with BTC near $80,800, the market’s favourites were $75,000–$80,000 at 14.9% and $80,000–$85,000 at 13.9% — a year that ends roughly where it stood.

Tesla is expected to publish its fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 vehicle production, deliveries and energy-storage deployments on Saturday 2 January 2027, a year after 2025 deliveries fell 8.6% to 1,636,129.

The Congress elected in the 2026 midterms first meets on January 3, 2027, and the House can do no other business until it has a Speaker. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi's market on the next new Speaker had Hakeem Jeffries at 86% — the table's chance, against “88% chance” on the order ticket beside it — with Jim Jordan at 10% and Steve Scalise at 2.6%.

A one-way cable car ride goes from $9 to $12 and a new $18 Cable Car Plus pass gives a day of unlimited Muni travel for one adult and up to two youth; the same month Muni ends its 15-cent Clipper discount, making the adult fare $3.

Bruno Mars begins the Japan leg of The Romantic Tour with the first of two nights at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, the start of 12 dome shows in six cities that Billboard Japan calls one of the largest dome tours ever.

Tokyo's Toyosu Market reopens after the New Year break with its first tuna auction of 2027, a year after a bluefin from Oma set the JPY 510.3 million record.

The FDA has assigned a 6 January 2027 PDUFA target date for ImmunityBio's supplemental BLA for Anktiva plus BCG in BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with papillary disease.

The BLS Employment Situation report for December 2026, out at 8:30 a.m. ET on January 8, 2027, fixes the unemployment rate the year closes on. On 20 September 2026 Kalshi had U-3 above 4.0% at 81% but only 5% above 5.0%, so traders expected a labour market that has loosened without cracking.

South Korea's biggest ice-fishing festival returns to the frozen Hwacheoncheon stream in Hwacheon for 23 days, 9-31 January 2027, with anglers jigging through the ice for sancheoneo (masu salmon).

The October 2025 Busan truce (a 10-point cut to the US fentanyl tariff, general licences for Chinese rare-earth exports, US soybean purchases, paused port fees) now lapses on January 10, 2027. Scott Bessent announced the two-month extension from November 10 as Xi Jinping landed in Washington.

The National Retail Federation's annual show gathers more than 40,000 retail professionals in Manhattan for three days in January.

人间有味 (Ren Jian You Wei, "A Taste of Life") is a 40-episode period drama about Beijing's century-old Wan Tang Ju restaurant, starring Hu Ge as the chef Fan Dacheng and Li Qin, directed by Huang Lei and adapted from Chang Xiaohu's novel 收山. It wrapped in June 2026 and is headed for Hunan TV and Mango TV, with a CCTV run also reported. No date has been announced, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.

The first COP of the BBNJ Agreement meets at UN Headquarters to agree the treaty's institutions and rules, the step before any high-seas marine protected area can be declared.

The Detroit Auto Show returns to Huntington Place for eleven days in January.

The Beekeeper 2 is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Timo Tjahjanto and written by Umair Aleem. It serves as the sequel to The Beekeeper (2024), with Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi, Jemma Redgrave, and Jeremy Irons reprising their roles, and Yara Shahidi, Pom Klementieff and Adam Copeland joining.

Japan's tuning and custom-car show fills Makuhari Messe in Chiba for three days in mid-January.

Nigerians elect a president, vice president, senators and members of the House of Representatives on 16 January 2027, with governorship and state assembly votes following on 6 February.

Set after the fall of the Empire, Ahsoka follows the former Jedi knight Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. Season 2 starts on Disney+.

OpenAI switches off 9 models and endpoints on 20 January 2027; requests to them stop working and callers have to move to the named replacements. Going: gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-4o-mini-audio, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20.

Neuromancer follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets. Season 1 starts on Apple TV.

The world's largest indoor boat and water-sports fair fills Messe Düsseldorf for nine days in January.

San Diego's PGA Tour stop returns to Torrey Pines for the 60th time as The Sentry, with Sentry Insurance as new title sponsor, running 25-30 January 2027 to a Saturday finish.

The first test trial in the mass lawsuit against Southern California Edison over the Eaton Fire, with eight plaintiffs, opens before Judge Laura Seigle in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The music-products industry's annual show runs five days in Southern California, with the exhibit halls open for the last three.