Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Ojamajo Doremi Na-i-sho premieres, a 13-episode OVA continuing the Ojamajo Doremi magical-girl franchise with a more mature, romance-tinged coda for the five witch apprentices.

The spring term is beginning for the students at Lillian Girls' Academy. Friends are reunited, but for the Yamayuri Council, it's a bittersweet time.

The action-horror TV anime Elfen Lied begins broadcast, following the psychotic, telekinetic Diclonius Lucy after two teenagers take in her amnesiac alter-ego "Nyuu".

On 19 August 2004 Google began trading on the Nasdaq as GOOG after pricing its IPO at US$85 a share, valuing the company at about US$23 billion and raising US$1.67 billion.

Exorcist: The Beginning is a 2004 American supernatural horror film serving as a prequel to The Exorcist (1973), and the fourth installment in The Exorcist film series. Directed by Renny Harlin, the film stars Stellan Skarsgård, Izabella Scorupco and James D'Arcy.

Square Enix released the Turks prequel Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII for FOMA mobile phones in Japan on 24 September 2004, the first major Final Fantasy game for mobile devices. It was never released outside Japan and shut down in 2018.

The television anime Bleach begins airing, a Studio Pierrot adaptation of Tite Kubo's manga about high schooler Ichigo Kurosaki, who inherits a Soul Reaper's powers and takes up the fight against soul-devouring Hollows.

The Royal Danish Navy commissioned HDMS Absalon, lead ship of the Absalon-class flexible support ships built at Odense Steel Shipyard. The 137-meter vessel combines helicopter, troop, and vehicle capacity with modern weapon systems.

Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, set across Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas, went on sale for the PlayStation 2 in North America on 26 October 2004, with Europe following on 29 October.

Brad Bird's The Incredibles opened in US theaters on 5 November 2004, a retro-futuristic superhero film about a family hiding its powers. It won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, the card-battle sequel set in Castle Oblivion, released for Game Boy Advance in Japan on 11 November 2004 and sold over 100,000 units in 48 hours.

Honda Shigeharu is a Major League batter on the rise. His son Gorou is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps.

Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle opens in Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones's novel about a young hatmaker cursed into an old woman's body who takes refuge with a wizard in his walking castle.

The Nintendo DS launched in North America on November 21, 2004 at $149.99, ahead of Japan on December 2, 2004 at ¥15,000, the first Nintendo hardware to launch in North America before Japan.

Level-5 and Square Enix released Dragon Quest VIII on the PlayStation 2 in Japan on 27 November 2004. It sold 2,167,072 units in two days and was the first Dragon Quest to score 39/40 in Famitsu.

Norman Foster's Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, opened over southern France's Tarn valley, completing the A75 motorway route between Paris and the Mediterranean.

A former CargoLifter airship hangar in Brandenburg, big enough to enclose the Statue of Liberty, reopened as the Tropical Islands indoor resort on December 19, 2004. Its beaches, lagoons and rainforest now draw about a million visitors a year to the world's largest free-standing hall.

A magnitude 9.1 megathrust rupture off Aceh generated a tsunami that crossed the Indian Ocean and struck coastlines from Indonesia to East Africa. It is the third-largest earthquake ever instrumentally recorded.

Taipei 101, a 508-metre, 101-storey tower, opened on 31 December 2004 and was officially the world's tallest building until the Burj Khalifa surpassed it in 2009.

The Ontario agreement supports refurbishment and restart. Only 2005 is established in this history; January 1 is an estimated year anchor.

On 18 January 2005 Airbus revealed the first A380 to more than 4,500 guests in its Toulouse final assembly hall, with the leaders of France, the UK, Germany and Spain presiding. The prototype wore Airbus's new livery, three months before its first flight.

Ray Charles, who died in June 2004, was honored eight times at the 47th Grammys at Staples Center, including Album of the Year for Genius Loves Company and Record of the Year for "Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones; Maroon 5 won Best New Artist.

The world's largest pumping station begins lifting water from Lake Nasser into the Sheikh Zayed Canal, launching Egypt's attempt to grow a second Nile valley 310 km into the Sahara.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist is a 2005 American supernatural horror film directed by Paul Schrader and written by William Wisher Jr. and Caleb Carr. The film serves as an alternative prequel to The Exorcist (1973) and is the fifth installment in The Exorcist series.

Charcoal-grilled eel and hitsumabushi in LACHIC’s seventh-floor dining room, with a fully transcribed branch-specific menu.

During an excavation at the mysterious ruins in Clow Country, Syaoran discovers his childhood friend Princess Sakura appear on the site with wings that disperse into many feathers.

Shin-Ei Animation and Studio Pierrot relaunch Doraemon as a new weekly TV series, replacing the original 1979 cast and staff for a modern retelling of Fujiko F. Fujio's manga about a robotic cat from the future helping the boy Nobita.

Shin-Ei Animation's hour-long Doraemon TV specials, broadcast alongside the 2005 series for holidays and milestones, began airing with the revival's debut.

F-WWOW, the first of the only full-length double-deck jet airliner ever built, flew from Toulouse–Blagnac with a crew of six under chief test pilot Jacques Rosay, who said handling it was "like handling a bicycle".