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Wood Horse (甲午, 31) - Wood Sheep (乙未, 32)
- 2.1 Anniversaries
- 2.2 Astronomy
Anticipated events
- May to October: World Expo 2015 in Milan.
- June: 35th German Protestant Church in Stuttgart
- State election in Hamburg.
- 2015 is the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty in the world; Germany participates in the framework of the Action Programme 2015.
- G8 Summit at Schloss Elmau near Krün in Germany.
- Completion of the Oder- Lausitz- road.
- Fully operational recording of the Vienna Central Station.
- Proposed creation of the Eurasian Union.
Sports
Science and Technology
Culture and Society
- 23 World Scout Jamboree in Kirarahama, Japan.
Already fixed events
Anniversaries
( 100th day )
- January 27: 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
- February 15: 50th anniversary of the first performance of the opera Die Soldaten by Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- April 1: 200th birthday of the German politician Otto von Bismarck
- April 7: 100th birthday of the U.S. American jazz singer Billie Holiday
- April 24: 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide
- May 6: 100th anniversary of the American director and author Orson Welles
- MAY 29: 150 years German Society for Sea Rescue - The Seenotretter
- June 13: 150th anniversary of the Irish writer William Butler Yeats
- June 18: 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo
- June 28: 175th anniversary of the founding of the " German General Friedrich Froebel kindergarten through in Blankenburg / Thuringia.
- July 6th: 600th anniversary of the death of the preacher and reformer Jan Hus
- August 16: 200th anniversary of the Italian religious founder and educator John Bosco
- August 20: 100th anniversary of the German physician Paul Ehrlich
- August 29: 100th anniversary of the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman
- September 6: 100th birthday of the German politician Franz Josef Strauss
- SEPTEMBER 21: 600th anniversary of the emperor Frederick III.
- October 15: 100th anniversary of the German biologist Theodor Boveri
- October 25: 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt ( one of the greatest military victories of the English over the French during the Hundred Years War )
- December 8: 200th birthday of the German painter Adolph von Menzel
- December 12: 100th anniversary of the American actor Frank Sinatra
- December 13: 100th anniversary of the German actor Curd Jürgens
- December 19: 100th anniversary of the French chanson singer Édith Piaf
Astronomy
- Total solar eclipse on March 20. Visible in the North Atlantic.
- Partial solar eclipse on 13 September. Visible in Southern Africa, Madagascar to Antarctica.
- Total lunar eclipse on 28 September.