Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, the second of the Rebuild of Evangelion films, opens in Japanese theaters, introducing new pilots Asuka and Mari as the Angel attacks escalate toward the Third Impact.

A bonus OVA on Clannad After Story's final DVD volume reimagines the story from an alternate timeline, casting Fujibayashi Kyou as the series' central heroine in place of Nagisa.

Shaft's Bakemonogatari begins airing, the first entry in the Monogatari series following high school student Koyomi Araragi as he helps girls afflicted by supernatural 'oddity' curses after narrowly surviving a vampire attack.

Bell delivered the first production Bell 429, serial number 57006, to Air Methods and MercyOne from its helicopter factory in Mirabel, Quebec.

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A compilation OVA recapping all 25 episodes of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 releases, condensing the second season's story for viewers catching up on the series.

Typhoon Morakot hit central Taiwan on 7 August 2009 and stalled over the island, dropping up to 2,777 mm of rain, killing 755 people and wiping out the town of Siaolin in a landslide.

the Garden of sinners Chapter 7, the final chapter of Kara no Kyoukai's theatrical film series, releases in Japanese theaters, resolving Shiki Ryougi's murderous impulses as she and Mikiya close in on a serial killer echoing crimes from her past.

Redline, Madhouse's hand-drawn racing film seven years in the making, opens in Japanese theaters, following daredevil driver JP as he competes in a deadly interplanetary race for a shot at the title and at fellow racer Sonoshee.

Usain Bolt won the 100m final at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in 9.58 seconds, 0.11 faster than his own 9.69 from the Beijing Olympics a year earlier.

The Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVA Collection begins staggered release, four bonus episodes from Bones filling in side stories about Winry, Riza, Izumi Curtis and a young Roy Mustang alongside the main Brotherhood series.

On 31 August 2009 Disney agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock-and-cash deal worth about US$4 billion, or US$50 per Marvel share. The deal brought Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor, and more than 5,000 characters, into Disney.

Gintama: Shiroyasha Koutan, a short OVA first shown at Jump Super Anime Tour 2008, releases on DVD, presenting a brief trailer-style glimpse of an imagined Gintama movie centered on Gintoki's past as the 'White Demon.'

Academy City is a highly developed place in terms of technology. It is said to be 20 to 30 years ahead of the rest of the world, and 80% of its 2.3 million residents are students.

Kuronuma Sawako is completely misunderstood by her classmates. Her timid and sweet demeanor is often mistaken for malicious behavior.

Fairy Tail begins broadcast, an adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga about the wizards of the guild Fairy Tail - fire mage Natsu Dragneel, celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia, and their rowdy guildmates - taking on magical jobs across the kingdom of Fiore.

Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura opened his Nikkei restaurant in Lima, cooking the blend of Peruvian and Japanese traditions built by Japanese migration to Peru. It was ranked the best restaurant in the world in 2025.

A bonus OVA continuing Shaft's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comedy, following pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki through fresh absurdist despairs, including a zombie-movie parody.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It reached US theaters on 11 December 2009.

N787BA lifted off from Paine Field at 10:27 am PST and landed three hours later at Boeing Field, reaching 180 knots and 13,200 feet. The first airliner with a primarily composite airframe flew more than two years later than Boeing first promised.

Jungsik Yim opened Jungsik in Seoul in 2009 with an argument to make: that Korean cooking belonged in fine dining on its own terms rather than as a set of borrowed French techniques. The restaurant went on to hold two Michelin stars in Seoul and opened a New York sibling that earned three, making it one of the few Korean names to carry that weight abroad.

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Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Forest City, North Carolina data centre as part of its operating infrastructure. The global directory records a 2010 groundbreaking. This timeline milestone is not an opening date.

Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Prineville, Oregon data centre as part of its operating infrastructure. The global directory records a 2010 groundbreaking. This timeline milestone is not an opening date.

Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.

Durarara!! premieres, a Brain's Base-animated adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels following newcomer Mikado Ryuugamine into Ikebukuro's tangle of gangs, information brokers, and the legendary headless "Black Rider."

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Leogane, 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, at 16:53 local time. Haiti's capital, its National Palace and much of its public administration were destroyed.

A bonus K-ON!! OVA has the Sakuragaoka light music club performing at a live house on New Year's Eve, sharing the bill with other young bands at the invitation of one of Ritsu's middle-school friends.

Bones releases Darker than Black: Origins, a four-part special bridging the original Darker than Black series and its second season by filling in what happened to Yin and Hei in between.

At the 52nd Grammys at Staples Center, Beyoncé won six awards, a record for a female artist in one night, including Song of the Year for 'Single Ladies'. Taylor Swift's Fearless took Album of the Year, Kings of Leon's 'Use Somebody' Record of the Year and Zac Brown Band Best New Artist.

Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.

The seven-part original video series Mobile Suit Gundam UC begins release, a Sunrise-animated adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s light novels set decades after the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

Tim Burton's live-action Alice in Wonderland, starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp, opened in US theaters on 5 March 2010 in 3D and IMAX 3D. It grossed over US$1 billion worldwide and won two Academy Awards.

Sunrise's Gintama: Dai Hanseikai airs as a comedic anniversary special tied to a Gintama live stage event, with the cast bickering over screen time while looking back on four years of the anime.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American animated fantasy film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and written by Sanders, DeBlois, and Will Davies, based on the 2003 novel by British author Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, and T.J. Miller.

P.A. Works' Angel Beats! begins broadcast, following Otonashi, who wakes with no memories in the afterlife and joins a rebellious student militia fighting the mysterious 'Angel' in a school suspended between life and death.

The sixth season begins after the "Baseball World Cup" has ended. Goro regained his passion for baseball in Japan thanks to his friends, and left to join the Hornets baseball team in preparation for the new season.

Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for a child because of her small stature.

A DVD-only special episode of Nodame Cantabile: Finale airs, set before the main season begins and centered on pianist Miki Kiyora's run at a competition in Paris.

The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

A TV special adaptation of Gosho Aoyama's Magic Kaito begins airing, following phantom thief Kaito Kuroba as he hunts a legendary gem while evading police and a shadowy organization.

Carrie Underwood won Entertainer of the Year again at the 45th Academy of Country Music Awards on 18 April 2010 in Las Vegas, the first woman to win it twice, as Miranda Lambert took Album of the Year and Lady Antebellum took Song and Single.

The Tatami Galaxy begins its TV run, a fast-talking college comedy in which an unnamed third-year student replays his stalled campus life over and over, chasing the 'rose-colored campus life' he never found.

Production I.G's xxxHOLiC Rou begins release, an OVA continuation of CLAMP's xxxHOLiC in which Kimihiro Watanuki, now running Yuuko's wish-granting shop a decade later, is drawn into investigating the dreams of his old rival Shizuka Doumeki.

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen opens in Japanese theaters, a feature retelling of the manga's Benizakura arc that finds Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura investigating a corrupted replica of a legendary sword.

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 at Hamburg on 19 May 2010, putting the double-decker superjumbo into European airline service weeks later.