2011
2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 2011 MMXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2764 |
| Armenian calendar | 1460 ԹՎ ՌՆԿ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6761 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 167–168 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1932–1933 |
| Bengali calendar | 1418 |
| Berber calendar | 2961 |
| British Regnal year | 59 Eliz. 2 – 60 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2555 |
| Burmese calendar | 1373 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7519–7520 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年 (Metal Tiger) 4708 or 4501 — to — 辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4709 or 4502 |
| Coptic calendar | 1727–1728 |
| Discordian calendar | 3177 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2003–2004 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5771–5772 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2067–2068 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1932–1933 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5111–5112 |
| Holocene calendar | 12011 |
| Igbo calendar | 1011–1012 |
| Iranian calendar | 1389–1390 |
| Islamic calendar | 1432–1433 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 23 (平成２３年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1943–1945 |
| Juche calendar | 100 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4344 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 100 民國100年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 543 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2554 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳金虎年 (male Iron-Tiger) 2137 or 1756 or 984 — to — 阴金兔年 (female Iron-Rabbit) 2138 or 1757 or 985 |
| Unix time | 1293840000 – 1325375999 |
| 2011 by topic |
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The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing.
U.S. Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader and terrorist Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan on May 2. The Curiosity rover, which was to land on Mars in August of the following year, launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26. In December, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who had been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994, died while traveling by train to a place outside Pyongyang. He was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un.
2011 was designated as:
- International Year of Forests
- International Year of Chemistry
- International Year for People of African Descent
In 2011, the nation of Samoa only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping December 30, 2011; it is now 24 hours ahead of American Samoa.