2007 ( MMVII ) was a common year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2007th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 8th of the 2000s decade.
2007 was designated as:
- International Heliophysical Year.
- International Polar Year.
- European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
- Year of Rumi.
- Year of the Dolphin.
- Scotland's Year of Highland Culture.
- Scouting Centenary, celebrating 100 years of the Scout Movement.
UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
Events
January
- January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
- January 1 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
- January 3 – China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
- January 8 – Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored 3 days later.
- January 12 – Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion.
- January 13 – The Greek ship Server breaks in half off the Norwegian coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude oil.
- January 14 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
- January 17 – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother , after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were allegedly racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
- January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster the president's position.
February
- February 2 – Chinese President Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with Sudan.
- February 2 – Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
- February 2 – The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
- February 13 – North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
- February 26 – The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
- February 27 – The Chinese Correction: World stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
- February 28 – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
March
- March 1 – The International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.
- March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits 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 23 – Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
- March 27 – Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis and Prime minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov finally sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia.
April
- April 3 – Second Orange Revolution : Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the Ukrainian Parliament, following defections that increased the majority of his opponents.
- April 4 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23 .
- April 14 – Retired chess champion Garry Kasparov is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.
- April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
- April 26 – Russians riot in Tallinn, Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier; 2 nights of rioting leave 1 dead.
May
- May 6 – French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election, succeeding incumbent President Jacques Chirac 10 days later.
- May 16 – The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages.
- May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
- May 20 – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
June
- June 1 – A 2,100-year-old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan.
- June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
- June 28 – In the aftermath of Greece's worst heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
July
- July 2 – Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
- July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
- July 17 – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
- July 21 – The final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.
August
- August 3 – Foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is put in place the following day.
- August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
- August 6 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in the historic Palestinian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in more than 7 years. Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
- August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
- August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
- August 17 Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
September
- September 2 –9 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.
- September 6 – Operation Orchard : Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
- September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."
- September 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 passengers and crew.
- September 20 – The 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
October
- October 4 – Spanish authorities arrest 22 people associated with the banned Batasuna party, which campaigns for Basque independence, but also has ties to the terrorist group ETA.
- October 8 – Track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her 5 Olympic me
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