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‘Year of …’ Information
The following is a list of the “Years” allotted to 2012. 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 [International, e.g. United Nations, Chinese Calendar, … ], the second ‘Decades of’. The final group are those declared by a range of other groups or places.
‘Year of …’
- Chinese Year of The Dragon
- 2012 International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
- United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2012
‘Decade of …’
- Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
- United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification 2010-2020
- Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 2008-2017
- Decade of Recovery and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions [by Chernobyl] 2006-2016
- International Decade for Action ‘Water for Life’ 2005-2015
- Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
- Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People 2005-2014
- Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism 2011-20
- United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011-20
- United Nations Literacy Decade, Education for All 2003-2012
‘Other Years of … ’
- 2012 - The European Year for Active Ageing
- Alan Turing Year
- Australian Year of the Farmer 2012
- National Year of Reading 2012
Australian Libraries and Library Associations. - Year of the Bat 2011-2012
- Year of the Solar System 2010-2012
‘Future Years of … ’
These are listed in the same groupings and order as those above. Any others will be added as we become aware of them.
- Chinese Year of the Snake [Water Snake]
- 2013 International Year of Quinoa [TBC]
- 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation
- 2014 International Year of Family Farming
- 2013 International Year of Deltas [Proposal]
- 2013 International Year of Statistics
- 2013 ‘Year of Air’ [Europe, TBC]
- 2013, the European Year of Citizens [Proposal]
Calendar
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- The following is not a complete listing of every world, or Australian, special day or event, though it has now increased considerably in numbers in light of the closure of the edna site. Many of the extra dates listed there have now been added to our listing. New additions have not had the New button added on this occasion.
- Some major religion-specific dates are found here, but most are on the separate Multifaith Calendar page.
- Where the date not known at this time, we have entered the code “TBC” [To Be Confirmed]. The date will be added as soon as it is known.
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| TBC | Science Summer Schools |
| 24&25 | Student Free Days : Qld |
| TBC | Australia’s Healthy Weight Week |
| TBC | Yabun 2013 : Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures - NSW |
| 25 | Teachers begin Term 1 : NT |
| 26 | Australia Day |
| 28 | Term 1
begins : New Zealand Can start between 28/1 and 7/2. |
| 29 | Teachers begin Term 1 : NSW |
| 29 | Students begin Term 1 : NT |
| 29 | Term 1 begins : Qld |
| 29 | Term 1 begins : SA |
| 30 | Students begin Term 1 : NSW |
| TBC | Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - NSW |
| TBC | Premier’s Be Active Challenge starts - SA |
| TBC | Premier’s Reading Challenge starts - SA |
| 4 Feb 2013 | Teachers begin Term 1 : WA |
International |
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| 1 | New Years Day |
| 4 | World Braille Day |
| 15 | Wikipedia Day |
| 17 | World Religion Day |
| 10 Feb 2013 | Chinese New Year Year of the Snake |
| 28 | Data Protection Day |
| 27 | Holocaust Memorial Day |
| 31 | International Internet Free Day |