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  Starts 06/06/2027SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 256 daysFormula 1's^[2] own 2027 schedule gives this round's weekend as "04 - 06 Jun"; the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday, the last day of the weekend.

  The slowest, tightest and oldest race on the calendar runs through the streets of Monte Carlo, where qualifying decides most of it.

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  Grand Paris Express Line 15 South Opens

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  Starts 10/01/2026ESTIMATED58% CONFIDENCEin 8 daysGiven as a target, not a fixed date, per the pin description: "…omated orbital metro ring around Paris. Estimated date.…"

  The first stretch of Europe's largest transport project: a 33 km automated orbital metro ring around Paris. Estimated date.

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• Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  Prince Albert I Opens the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

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  Starts 03/29/1910CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCE116.5 years agoThe museum's own institute (oceano.org^[2]) and multiple tourism/history sources date its inauguration by Prince Albert I to 29 March 1910.

  Monaco's Prince Albert I inaugurated the Oceanographic Museum, an institution he founded to house his marine research, after eleven years of construction into a cliff face above the Mediterranean. The museum, later directed by Jacques Cousteau, remains one of the world's foremost centres for oceanography.

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  The 2027 Hungarian Grand Prix

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  Starts 08/01/2027SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 312 daysFormula 1's^[2] own 2027 schedule gives this round's weekend as "30 Jul - 01 Aug"; the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday, the last day of the weekend.

  The Hungaroring's twisting layout is often called Monaco without the walls, and closes the first half of the season.

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• Sports09/21/2026@SportDesk

  The 2027 Spanish Grand Prix

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  Starts 09/12/2027SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 354 daysFormula 1's^[2] own 2027 schedule gives this round's weekend as "10 - 12 Sep"; the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday, the last day of the weekend.

  The Spanish Grand Prix runs at Madrid's Madring, the part-street, part-permanent circuit around IFEMA that took the race off Barcelona.

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  Germany Launches Its Biggest Rail Overhaul in Decades

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  Starts 12/31/2030ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCEin 4.3 yearsA target, per the source^[1]: DB plans "to tackle at least two additional corridors per year until 2030," completing the programme's full rollout by then.

  Germany announced a multi-billion-euro Generalsanierung programme to fully close and rebuild more than 40 of its busiest rail corridors, aiming to fix decades of underfunded, overloaded infrastructure by 2030.

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  Maasvlakte 2 Opens as the Port of Rotterdam’s Newest Extension

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  Starts 05/22/2013CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCE13.3 years agoDutch Water Sector's^[2] report on Maasvlakte 2 states the extension was officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

  Rotterdam's man-made Maasvlakte 2 extension, built to keep Europe's largest port ahead of rising container traffic, officially opened for shipping on 22 May 2013.

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  The 2027 Australian Grand Prix

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  Starts 04/04/2027SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 193 daysFormula 1's^[2] own 2027 schedule gives this round's weekend as "02 - 04 Apr"; the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday, the last day of the weekend.

  The championship reaches Melbourne, where public parkland roads around Albert Park lake become a circuit for the weekend.

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  The 2027 Belgian Grand Prix

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  Starts 07/25/2027SCHEDULED85% CONFIDENCEin 305 daysFormula 1's^[2] own 2027 schedule gives this round's weekend as "23 - 25 Jul"; the Grand Prix is run on the Sunday, the last day of the weekend.

  Spa is the longest circuit in Formula 1 at just over seven kilometres, and it makes its own weather across the Ardennes.

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  City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles

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  Starts 04/05/2016CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCE10.5 years agoFrench outlets Batiactu^[3] and Ingélux, and Wikipedia's^[2] French edition, date the Canopée's public inauguration to April 5, 2016.

  Paris unveiled La Canopée, a sweeping glass-and-steel roof capping the decade-long, roughly 800 million euro renovation of the Forum des Halles shopping and transit hub. Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the inauguration of the structure designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Tour Triangle Is Delivered at Porte de Versailles

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  Starts 01/01/2027DELAYED1 day late40% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysFrance 3's site visit reports the tower is "au niveau du 35e etage... pour une livraison finale debut 2027" - final delivery in early 2027, a season rather than a date.^[1]

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  Starts 06/01/2023ESTIMATED64% CONFIDENCE3.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "completed the work in 2023."

  The Levvel consortium finished reinforcing the 32-kilometre Afsluitdijk sea wall with tens of thousands of custom concrete blocks so it can withstand a one-in-10,000-year storm.

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