Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Foster + Partners’ new Bloomberg European headquarters in the City of London opened with the highest BREEAM sustainability score ever awarded to a major office building.

The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Ref. 6239 that Paul Newman wore, inscribed 'Drive Carefully Me', sold at Phillips in New York on 26 October 2017 for US$17,752,500. It became the most expensive wristwatch ever sold at auction.

Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok, a comedic reinvention of the Thor series with Cate Blanchett as Hela, opened in US theaters on 3 November 2017.

The new console will ship with 6 teraflops of graphical power, more than its main competitor, the PS4 Pro, with 4.2 teraflops. Microsoft is using a custom GPU engine on Scorpio that runs at 1172MHz, a big increase over the Xbox One’s 853MHz and even Sony’s 911MHz found on the PS4 Pro. Microsoft is also shipping the Xbox One X with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive for 4K movies and entertainment, and 1TB of storage.

Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.

Alo Yoga took about 14,000 sq ft at 96 Spring Street, on the corner of Mercer Street in Soho, with 11,000 sq ft of selling space over two floors.

Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.

Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi sold for US$450,312,500 including fees at Christie's in New York on 15 November 2017, the most ever paid for any artwork at auction. It beat the previous auction record, Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger at US$179.4 million.

Lee Unkrich's Coco opened in US theaters on 22 November 2017, after first reaching Mexican theaters, about a boy who enters the Land of the Dead. It won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.

Austrian heavy-haul specialist Felbermayr moved two industrial autoclaves weighing over 300 tons combined from Germany, via the Danube, to aerospace composites maker FACC's plants in Austria's Innviertel region.

A seasonal restaurant pairing Portuguese ingredients with natural wines.

A Shilong seafood and late-night stop featured in Dongguan’s March 2026 food guide, with oysters, congee and stir-fried noodles.

At roughly 120 square feet, the Ecocapsule takes tiny living accommodations to the next level. The pod runs off wind and solar power and is equipped with a wind turbine and solar cells, which fuel the capsules' 9,744 watt-hour battery. It also has tools to collect and reuse rainwater and dew. Between its solar and wind power and water collection systems, Nice Architects say the Ecocapsule can support you for as much as a year at a time in off-the-grid locations.

A greenfield, $940M airport built ahead of Russia's 2018 World Cup opens outside Rostov-on-Don, engineered to be able to double its capacity later.

Alo buys Cody, a Seattle start-up selling yoga and fitness video programmes, giving the apparel brand its own online class platform - later Alo Moves and today the Alo Wellness Club app.

Wit Studio releases the three-part Attack on Titan: Lost Girls OVA, adapting Hiroshi Seko's spin-off novel with two stories centering on Annie Leonhart's secret mission and Mikasa Ackerman's fractured memories.

Jinan favourites and international dishes, with a linked priced à la carte menu and children’s buffet terms.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, or simply The Last Jedi, is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015), and the eighth episode of the nine-part "Skywalker saga".

Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.

Mexican coastal seafood at Gilbert Cetina’s counter in Mercado La Paloma.

Italian-inspired dining at Passero’s current Corydon Avenue location.

Google reports its Jackson County data center opened in 2018 on a former coal-plant site.

Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Eagle Mountain, Utah data centre as part of its operating infrastructure. The global directory records a 2018 groundbreaking. This timeline milestone is not an opening date.

Rin likes to go camping by herself along the lakes that provide a scenic view of Mt. Fuji. Nadeshiko loves to take cycling trips by herself to places where she can see Mt. Fuji.

Science SARU's Masaaki Yuasa reworks Go Nagai's 1972 manga for its creator's 50th anniversary, following teenager Akira Fudou as he merges with a demon to fight back against an ancient race reclaiming the world from humanity, gaining monstrous power while trying to hold onto his own humanity. The ten-episode Netflix series became one of the most acclaimed original anime of 2018, praised for pairing Yuasa's fluid, unconventional animation with the story's escalating violence and tragedy.

Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.

Bandai Namco Pictures brings Gintama's TV anime to a close with the Silver Soul Arc, following Gintoki and old allies as they unite against Utsuro's plan to destroy the Amanto-occupied Earth.

Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden begins airing, following a former child soldier who becomes a letter-writing "Auto Memory Doll" to understand the meaning of the last words her commanding officer told her.

TRIGGER and CloverWorks' Darling in the FranXX begins broadcast, an original mecha series set in a walled city where teenage pilots pair up to fight giant creatures called klaxosaurs in mechs called FranXX.

German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.

The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

Ferrero agreed to pay $2.8 billion in cash for Nestlé's US confectionery arm, over 20 brands including Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Crunch, Nerds and SweeTarts, making it the third-largest US confectionery company.

Sparkly Key Animation begins streaming Soul Land (Douluo Dalu), a Chinese donghua adapting Tang Jia San Shao's novel about a reincarnated hidden-weapons master who rises through the ranks of spirit masters in a new world.

On 21 January 2018 Rocket Lab's Electron lifted off from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, reached orbit and deployed three customer satellites on only its second flight.

At the 60th Grammys at Madison Square Garden, Bruno Mars won all six of his nominations, including Record, Album and Song of the Year, and Kendrick Lamar took five awards. Backstage, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said women should 'step up', drawing widespread criticism.

René Redzepi shut the original Noma after 31 December 2016 to rebuild it as an urban farm near Copenhagen. It reopened on 15 February 2018 after a year off, still built on foraging and New Nordic cooking.