Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

China's Ministry of Commerce slashed its second-half 2010 rare earth export quotas by 72%, tightening its grip on the roughly 97% of global rare earth supply it mined at the time. The move, framed as an environmental crackdown on unregulated mining, sent rare earth prices soaring within days.

President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law on 21 July 2010, a response to the 2007-09 financial crisis.

Brain's Base releases two bonus Durarara!! DVD specials, one bridging episodes 12 and 13 around an Ikebukuro UFO sighting and another following the finale as Shizuo's brother's TV special turns dangerous.

Siemens revealed its Vectron locomotive family, presenting prototypes to the public at the InnoTrans rail trade fair in Berlin. Vectron electric and hybrid freight locomotives are built at Siemens' Munich-Allach factory and now haul freight for operators including DB Cargo.

Syrian mezze and dinner dishes in a colourful Outremont dining room.

Wilh. Wilhelmsen launched the 265-meter Tønsberg at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki shipyard, the largest roll-on/roll-off vessel ever built at the time. The ship carries luxury cars, SUVs, and outsized construction equipment across the world's oceans.

The Stena Britannica, one of the world’s largest RoPax ferries, entered service on the Harwich–Hook of Holland route after final sea trials and certification.

Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu Specials adds two bonus episodes to the Hidamari Sketch franchise, first announced at Comiket 78.

The Three Gorges reservoir on the Yangtze rose to its full design level of 175 metres at 9 a.m. on 26 October 2010, after failed attempts in 2008 and 2009.

Aldar Properties opened Ferrari World on Yas Island, a Ferrari-branded park enclosed by a 200,000-square-meter roof shaped like the brand's GT badge, making it the world's largest indoor theme park.

On 18 November 2010 General Motors began trading on the New York Stock Exchange after a US$33-a-share IPO that raised US$20.1 billion and grew to US$23.1 billion, then the largest offering ever.

Income-restricted one-bedroom apartments for adults aged 62+ near Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: 1 bedroom — operator-listed $1,665.

Tangled is a 2010 American animated musical fantasy comedy film directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, written by Dan Fogelman, and loosely based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel". It reached US theaters on 24 November 2010.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a 2010 fantasy adventure film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni, based on the 1952 novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third published and fifth chronological novel in the children's book series The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Special is bundled with the limited-edition home-video release of the earlier Benizakura-hen theatrical film, a bonus short tied to the same story.

SynergySP's Major: Message releases as a one-shot OVA epilogue to the Major baseball franchise, following pitcher-turned-fielder Goro Honda as he fights to return to professional baseball while rebuilding his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Joseph Kosinski's Tron: Legacy, a sequel to the 1982 film with Jeff Bridges and a Daft Punk score, opened in US theaters on 17 December 2010 in 3D and IMAX 3D. It grossed about US$410 million worldwide.

Operational. Google operates its Saint-Ghislain campus in Belgium. The operator timeline records the initial opening in 2010 and a subsequent expansion completed in 2015.

Gaggan Anand opened his progressive Indian restaurant in a renovated 19th-century townhouse in Bangkok. It took two Michelin stars in the first Thailand guide and ranked seventh in the world from 2015 to 2018.

Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Luleå data centre as part of its operating infrastructure. The global directory records a 2011 groundbreaking. This timeline milestone is not an opening date.

Shaft's Puella Magi Madoka Magica begins broadcast, a subversive magical-girl series following Madoka Kaname toward a fateful wish-granting contract with the cat-like Kyubey after she watches her classmate Homura Akemi fight a witch.

Sawako Kuronuma and her friends have just begun their second year of high school and they are in the same class together again.

On 28 January 2011 Comcast and General Electric closed their deal creating NBCUniversal, a joint venture 51% owned and managed by Comcast and 49% by GE, headquartered in New York.

At the 53rd Grammy Awards on 13 February 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs won Album of the Year, Lady Antebellum took Record and Song of the Year and Esperanza Spalding won Best New Artist over Justin Bieber.

TMS Entertainment begins releasing Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas 2, the second OVA season continuing the prequel story of the Lost Canvas manga set generations before the original Saint Seiya.

Doraemon: Shin Nobita to Tetsujin Heidan - Habatake Tenshi-tachi, a remake of the franchise's own 1986 film, releases in Japanese theaters, sending Nobita and friends up against an invading Robot Army after Nobita builds a mysterious fallen robot of his own.

Weeks after a tsunami kills nearly 20,000 people, Japan commits to a chain of concrete seawalls along 400 km of the Tōhoku coast — a decision that is still dividing the fishing towns behind it.

Kyoto Animation releases a bonus K-ON!! episode bundled with the series' ninth Blu-ray/DVD volume, following the Light Music Club as they apply for passports ahead of a planned overseas trip.

Income-restricted apartments near downtown West Chester, with community space and laundry facilities on each floor. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: 1 bedroom — operator-listed $910–$1,114, 2 bedroom — operator-listed $1,186–$1,423.

Studio DEEN releases two bonus Sekaiichi Hatsukoi OVA episodes, filling in the backstory of editors Ritsu Onodera and Masamune Takano's high-school breakup and a later, awkward family visit for fellow couple Hatori and Chiaki.

An OVA adapting the climactic chapters of Kazuya Minekura's Saiyuki Gaiden manga, the prequel to her Saiyuki series set among the deities of Heaven before Son Goku's fall.

Dutch shipbuilder IHC Merwede delivered the Oleg Strashnov, a 183-metre DP3 crane vessel able to lift 5,000 tonnes, to Seaway Heavy Lifting on 1 April 2011. The ship went on to become one of the most powerful monohull crane vessels used in offshore construction.

Keppel Shipyard converted the VLCC Maersk Nova into the Maersk Peregrino FPSO, and the converted supertanker began pumping oil at the Peregrino field 85km off Rio de Janeiro in April 2011.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi launched construction of what became the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile on 2 April 2011, with Italy's Salini building it.

Taylor Swift won her first fan-voted Entertainer of the Year at the 46th Academy of Country Music Awards on 3 April 2011 in Las Vegas, while Miranda Lambert led the night with four trophies and Lady Antebellum won Album of the Year.

Sunrise's second Gintama TV season, Gintama', begins broadcast, picking up after a year-long time skip that scrambles the personalities of Edo's residents, including Yorozuya members Gintoki and Kagura.

White Fox's adaptation of the visual novel Steins;Gate begins airing, following self-proclaimed "mad scientist" Rintarou Okabe after his microwave-turned-time-machine starts sending text messages into the past.

A-1 Pictures' Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day begins airing, an original drama about a group of estranged childhood friends confronting their shared guilt over a tragic accident years earlier.

Blue Exorcist begins broadcast, an A-1 Pictures adaptation of Kazue Kato's manga about Rin Okumura, a teenager who discovers he is the son of Satan and enrolls at True Cross Academy to train as an exorcist rather than follow his demonic father.

Bertrand Grébaut’s contemporary French cooking in a relaxed Charonne dining room.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, directed by Rob Marshall with Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane joining Johnny Depp, opened in US theaters on 20 May 2011. It grossed over US$1 billion worldwide.

Two unaired bonus episodes of the horror anime Shiki are bundled with the show's eighth and ninth home-video volumes, filling in scenes the TV broadcast skipped over in the outbreak overtaking the village of Sotoba.

Floral jasmine aroma over unsweetened green tea. Mild bitterness, astringency and tea savoriness are conservative estimates, not measured scores.

Orbis International's DC-10-based Flying Eye Hospital flew to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for a three-week ophthalmic training program, its sixth mission in the country.