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‘Year of …’ Information
The following is a list of the “Years” allotted to 2010. They include international nominations as well as others such as the “Chinese Year of …”. Every effort has been made to include all major nominations.
The first group are Officially Nominated Years including ‘Decades of’ [International, e.g. United Nations, Chinese Calendar, … ]. The second group are those declared by a range of other groups or places.
- Chinese Year of the Tiger
- International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures
- International Year of Biodiversity
- Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
- International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015
- International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001-2010
- Second International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism 2001-2010
- Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People 2005-2014
- United Nations Decade to Roll Back Malaria 2001-2010
- United Nations Literacy Decade 2003-2012
- LaserFest
50 years of the Laser. - The Year of Ecotourism 2010
- The Year of Mark Twain 2010
- Year for Priests 2009-2010
Calendar
- The following is not a complete listing of every world, or Australian, special day or event, only those we felt were most applicable to all schools.
- Religion-specific dates will be found on the separate Multifaith Calendar page.
- Where the exact date cannot be confirmed at this time, no date has been given. These will be added as soon as they are confirmed.
- A much more extensive listing can be found on the EdNA Events Calendar.
- The date/events given for the months already completed this year, provide 2011 data, where it is known.