A list of what to look out for this year, politics and otherwise.

January

• End of the 12-month Brexit transition period
• One year since Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani’s killing
• Georgia senate runoff elections
• India will roll out vaccines
• Joe Biden’s inauguration as POTUS

February

• NASA’s Perseverance Rover will roam around Mars (and the event will be livestreamed on NASA’s YouTube channel)
• India’s 2021 Budget
• World Sustainable Development Summit

March

• The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch the Chandrayaan-3 moon mission
• The beginning of the murder trial for the police officers involved in George Floyd’s killing
• Side note: Friends reunion episode

April/May

• Legislative Assembly elections for various Indian states

May

• World Economic Forum in Singapore
• Total lunar eclipse i.e. the Blood Moon

June

• Copa America
• UEFA EURO 2020
• Iranian presidential election

July

• The EU’s ban on single-use plastics will go into effect
• The Chinese Communist Party turns 100
• 2020 Summer Olympics

August

• Microsoft will pull the plug on Internet Explorer

September

• Hong Kong Legislative Council elections

October

• The World Expo will begin in Dubai

November

• The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference is scheduled to take place
• Barbados will remove Queen Elizabeth as its titular monarch

December

• Total solar eclipse
• T20 World Cup