2007

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2004 2005 2006 – 2007 – 2008 2009 2010

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

The year 2007 was called:

In the Chinese calendar, dates up to February 17 are in the Year of the Dog, while dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Pig.
European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
Year of the Dolphin^[1]
UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.^[2]

Events [change]

January [change]

January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
January 1 – The Irish language became an official and working language of the European Union.
January 1 – Slovenia adopted the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
January 1 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon became the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
January 12 – The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
January 13 – The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil.
January 18 – Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, became visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
January 30 – Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released worldwide to consumers.

February [change]

February 2 – An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
February 2 – A policeman was killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy and 71 people are hospitalized.
February 2 – Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
February 3 – Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
February 3 – Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
February 3 – A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
February 10 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
February 19 – North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
February 27 – World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

March [change]

March 4 – Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.
March 6 – Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot of US$370 million.
March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400, crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
March 7 – Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, was held.
March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
March 11 – Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
March 13 – The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith.
March 14 – Pi Day
March 15 – March 21 – CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
March 17 – Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
March 17 – France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial tri.
March 24 – A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales, with Morris Iemma's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
March 25 – In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
March 25 – Daylight savings begins in Europe
March 25 – This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
March 31 – Sydney, Australia, turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.

April [change]

April 2 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales.
April 2 – 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
April 3 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Ukrainian parliament in a historic act of anti-communism in Ukraine. It has been nicknamed the "Second Orange Revolution"
April 4 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
April 4 – Apple Inc. releases Mac Pro with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors each running at a speed of 3.0 GHz.
April 5 – The British sailors and marines taken by Iran on March 23 arrive back in Britain.
April 16 – The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech.
April 27 – Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

May [change]

May 4 – Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
May 6 – Manchester United wins the English Premier League after title rivals Chelsea draw against Arsenal.
May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
May 10 – Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on June 27 triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
May 16 – Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.
May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.

June [change]

June 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan^[3]
June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.^[4]
June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
June 5 – A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of The Holocaust.^[5]
June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
June 18 – Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
June 27 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
June 29 – British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.^[6]
June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.

July [change]

July 1 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
July 1 – The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
July 9 – Argentina's capital Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall in almost 90 years.
July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
July 16 – Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and released about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
July 21 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
July 21 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series, is released.
July 27 – Two news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona. This killed both pilots and two photojournalists.
July 29 – Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0.
July 30 – New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.