Some will be essential, ultra-publicized, even deafening, others will go completely unnoticed. The year that opens will be littered with "historic" anniversaries in all areas.
On the less happy side, we find disasters - just ten years ago, the earthquake in Haiti and the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons platform - but also wars (Kuwait in 1990, Iran-Iraq in 1980, Korea in 1950 ) and numerous disappearances, John Lennon and Joe Dassin (1980) to Jimi Hendrix and Bourvil (1970), to name a few, without forgetting the assassination of the Duke of Berry 200 years ago!
Some exploits also - the Annapurna defeated by Herzog 70 years ago, the crossing of the South Atlantic by Mermoz 90 years ago, and especially the crossing 500 years ago by Magellan of the strait which will bear his name - and milestones in world history - the arrival of the Mayflower in America 400 years ago, the Salt March in India at the beginning of the last century.
And finally, more trivial but funnier for the nostalgic, this year will be the occasion to remember the arrival in our daily newspapers of Pac-Man in 1980, the Solitaire in 1990, the MP3 player in 2000, and the invention the laser in 1960, the submarine 400 years ago and the forklift, which everyone knows, 500 years ago!
January: Smig and the earthquake of Haiti
The 2nd is the 70th anniversary of the Smig, guaranteed minimum inter-professional salary , which will be replaced twenty years later by the Smic.
On the 4th , it will be 10 years since the Burj Khalifa , an 828 m tower culminating in Dubai, dominates the world.
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On the 12th , the world will remember the most terrible earthquake of the last decade, which occurred 10 years ago, at 4:53 pm, in Haiti , killing at least 230,000 people.
On the 21st , George Orwell , author of the unforgettable "1984", will have left us 70 years earlier, day for day.
Finally, on the 27th , the iPad , the very first of the seven generations of touch pads launched by Apple, was presented to the world by Steve Jobs ten years ago.
February: Xynthia and the Sims
On the 4th , we wish the Sims a happy birthday, a 3D life simulation game launched 20 years ago, and has since become one of the best-selling franchises in history on PC.
The 13th , another atmosphere, will be the 200 years of the assassination of the Duke of Berry , potential heir to the throne of France, on which rested the future of the Bourbon dynasty, by a Bonapartist worker. The birth of his son, 6 months after his death, will ultimately save the dynasty.
On the 27th , sad anniversary, that of the storm Xynthia , which swept across Europe ten years ago, killing 59, including 47 in France, and 29 in the only Vendean commune of La Faute-sur-Mer.
March: Gandhi and Ferrat
On the 4th , video game fans have already stuck a sticker on their calendar to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the best-selling console in all history, the PlayStation 2 .
On the 12th , it will be necessary to remember the "Salt March" in India, in 1930. This great nonviolent demonstration started by Gandhi was one of the crucial steps towards the independence wrested from the British, 17 years later.
The 13th , a giant of French song will have left us already 10 years ago: Jean Ferrat .
April: Deepwater Horizons, Hubble and Hitchcock
On the 15th , it will be 40 years since Jean-Paul Sartre died, and 10 years since the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjöll paralyzed all European air traffic.
The 20th , the worst ecological disaster in the history of the United States began 10 years ago, with the explosion of the oil platform of BP Deepwater Horizons , 11 dead and 5 million barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico .
On the 24th , you should enjoy many photo slideshows and retrospectives to mark the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Observatory.
Finally, on the 29th , the world of cinema will mourn one of its greatest figures, Alfred Hitchcock , who died in 1980.
May: Mermoz and the Pac-Man
On the 11th , 80 years ago, the Germans launched their lightning and lightning offensive, invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and then France in two months.
The 12 , a more joyful memory with the 90th anniversary of the crossing of the South Atlantic by Jean Mermoz on a Latécoère 28-3, a historic date in the history of airmail.
On the 16th , it will be 60 years since the American physicist Theodore Harold Maiman produced the very first emission of a laser beam .
On the 17th , it will only be 30 years since the World Health Organization no longer considered homosexuality as a mental illness.
The 22nd , a fantastic double anniversary with the arrival on computers of Pac-Man 40 years ago, and Solitaire 30 years ago, integrated into Windows 3.0 livery, MS-DOS era…
Do you remember Pac-Man? DR
June: Herzog, Schengen and Tenochtitlan
On June 3 , 1970, men managed for the first time to overcome a summit of over 8,000 meters. A feat achieved on Annapurna 1 , one of the tallest and fearsome mountains in the world, and signed Louis Lachenal and Maurice Herzog, two French.
The 7th , well-known anniversary of lovers of crowned heads, that of one of the most famous diplomatic meetings in history: the interview 500 years ago between François 1er and Henry VIII at the Drap d'Or camp . The objective of the French monarch was to establish a treaty of friendship with his rival, to protect himself from the new strong man of Europe, Charles Quint. It was a notable failure…
On June 18 , the appeal of June 18, 40 will therefore be 80 years old.
On the 19th , the birth certificate of the Schengen area will be 30 years old, with the signing by Édith Cresson and her European counterparts of the convention implementing this agreement relating to the abolition of border controls.
On the 25th , the Korean War , opposing the south, supported by the United Nations, in the North, supported by the communist bloc, will be 70 years old.
On the 30th , we will go back 500 years not to find Renaissance Europe but the flight of Hernan Cortès and the Spanish troops from Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec empire. This bloody rout in front of the Tlaxcaltecs, baptized "Sad Noche", is one of the great episodes of the Spanish conquest of present Mexico.
July: World Cup and Concorde
On the 13th , we will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the very first matches of a Football World Cup : France-Mexico (4-1) and United States-Belgium (3-0), contested simultaneously at the opening of the World Cup in Uruguay.
The 17th , a little-known but very interesting anniversary: the 300th anniversary of the collapse in France of the Law system, the precursor of the current global financial system. The principle, which came into force 5 years earlier, was, via a royal bank created for the occasion, to issue paper money (the first banknotes), in exchange for gold deposited by individuals (gold being loaned to the State). A credit system which will therefore collapse quickly ...
The 25th , the terrible Concorde crash in Gonesse , in the Val-d'Oise, will be 20 years old. Caused by a metal strip left on the runway by another aircraft, the accident, which had precipitated the decommissioning of the aeronautical plane, already weighed down by the surge in the price of oil, had left 113 dead, including 4 on the ground. .
August: Kuwait, Kursk and Trotsky
The 2 , it will be the 30 years of the first Gulf War , opposing Iraq, invader of Kuwait, to a great coalition led by the United States.
On August 12 , 2000, the K-141 “Kursk” nuclear-powered submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with 118 sailors on board. The accident marked the spirits, as we know that several of them survived for long days, before dying of suffocation or cold.
The 20 , two rooms, two atmospheres, with the disappearance of Joe Dassin , struck down by a heart attack at 41 years in 1980 and the assassination of Léon Trotski in 1940, on the orders of Stalin.
September: those who make war and those who make love
The first , the controversial war waged by George W. Bush in Iraq, the consequences of which are more topical than ever, will have ended ten years ago.
The 2 , end of another conflict, with the French defeat in Sedan 150 years ago against the Prussians. Two days later, the Third Republic was born.
On the 5th , it will now be 10 years since the Basque organization ETA announced its cease-fire.
On September 17 , 1970, Jimi Hendrix died at 27 of a drug overdose. Janis Joplin , another mythical rock figure, will join him, also at 27, less than two weeks later, on October 4.
The 23 , in another register, it is André Raimbourg, dit Bourvil , who will have left us 50 years ago.
On the 28th , finally, Egypt will remember its second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser , figure of the non-aligned movement, who died 40 years earlier.
October: thank you Mother Theresa
On the 3rd , it will be 40 years since a bomb attack targeting a synagogue killed 4 people, rue Copernic in Paris.
On October 7 , 1950, Mother Theresa founded the Order of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta (India), which won her a Nobel Prize 29 years later.
November: the Mayflower
On the 9th , we will remember in France the disappearance of General de Gaulle , who died 50 years ago.
On the 17th , Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama , will remember having been inducted spiritual and temporal head of Tibet at 15, 70 years ago, just after the beginning of the Chinese intervention…
The 21st , a double historic day, with the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower in America, transporting from England the first "Pilgrim fathers", and the 500th anniversary of the passage by Magellan of the strait crossing Tierra del Fuego, south of the 'current Patagonia.
December: Farewell John Lennon
On the 2nd , the writer Romain Gary left us 40 years ago.
On the 8th , we will look back 40 years more, at the date of the disappearance of one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, John Lennon , shot in New York by an unbalanced fan.
And also...
Without knowing the exact date, we must not forget this year:
> 20 years of the first MP3 player with hard disk, the JBMM 6000 from Archos.
> 60 years of the very first multitasking computer , the Bull Gamma 60.
> 100 years of Quevedo's first arithmometer , ancestor of the calculator.
> 200 years since the appearance of Jesus to Joseph Smith, founder of the order of Mormons.
> 400 years of the very first submarine prototypes by Cornelius Drebel
> 500 years of the very first lottery organized in France
> The 500th anniversary of the invention of the forked claw , ancestor of the rifle!
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