2006

Events

January

See also: January 2006

  • January 1st :

    • Azerbaïdjan : revaluation of the manat.
    • Belgium: coming into effect of the law prohibiting to smoke on its work place.
    • Canada: 30 municipalities of the province of the Quebec are reconstituted, result of a referendum held the June 20th 2004.
    • France:
      • Implemented of the Organic law concerning at the finance laws within the State.
      • Creation of the Postal bank, subsidiary of the Post office, which replaces the already existing finance departments.
    • Palestine: The radical Palestinian party Hamas, person in charge of many attacks anti-Israelis, announces that it will not prolong the agreement on a truce of violence, concluded in March with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, which indicated that this decision, making following that of the Islamic Jihad and several armed factions related to the Fatah the day before, was a “serious error”.
    • Swiss: Moritz Leuenberger takes its president's functions of the Confederation.
    • European Union: The Austria takes for six months the rotating presidency of the European Union, succeeding the the United Kingdom.
    • the Vatican: During the mass of the New year, devoted to the topic of peace, celebrated in the Basilica Saint-Pierre of Rome, the pope Benoît XVI called UNO with a renewed conscience of his responsibilities to promote justice, solidarity and peace in the world.
  • January 9th :
    • Argentinian: The court of Lomas de Zamora, to the south of Buenos Aires condemns to custodial sentences with perpetuity the two police officers who killed by balls Maximiliano Kosteki and Darío Santillán at the time of a manifestation of the movement of the piqueteros (movement organized unemployed) in the town of Avellaneda, the June 26th 2002.
  • January 10th :
    • a study of the UFE (Union of the families in Europe) affirms that there is more than 2 million children low in France.
  • January 15th :
    • After a seven years odyssey and of almost five billion kilometers in space, the American space probe Stardust turns over on Ground with its invaluable cargo of cometary dust.
    • Michelle Bachelet, first elected woman president with the Chile.
  • January 17th :
    • Airbus confirms its supremacy in 2005 but is confronted with the return in strength of Boeing.
    • With Beijing, international community called to finance the fight against the avian Influenza.
  • January 19th :
    • Successful launch of New Horizons, the first space probe bound for the planet Pluto.
  • January 20th :
    • Africa: Beginning of the Cut of Africa of the footballing nations 2006 in Egypt
  • January 22nd :
    • Portugal: The former Prime Minister (preserving) Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected President of the Portuguese Republic. He is the first president of right since the Révolution of the eyelets of 1974.
    • Cape Verde: The African Parti for independence Cape Verde (PAICV, Socialist) obtains 52,3% of the voices and 41 seats out of 72 with the National Assembly, being thus maintained with the capacity which it had reached 5 years ago. The Prime Minister Jose Maria Firns, President of the PAICV, should be taken back in its functions.
  • January 23rd : Canada:
  • January 25th : Palestine:
    • Election of the party of the Hamas and demolished Fatah.
  • January 26th :
    • Argentinian: The association of the Mothers of the Place of May, chaired by Hebe de Bonafini, carries out its last Manifestation of the resistance , which consists of a 24 hours round around the pyramid of the Place from May with Buenos Aires, to claim the continuation of the investigations about the 30.000 missings of the period of the dictatorship and the judgment of all the assassins.
  • January 27th :

February

See also: February 2006

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    • Argentinian Brazil/: After almost three years of negotiations, Argentina and Brazil sign an agreement which must make it possible to protect the manufacturing sectors which could be too hard affected by the competition of the adjoining country. The Adaptation mechanism competitive (MAC) makes it possible to once fix customs duties on the “too competitive” product of the adjoining country for three years, renewable.
  • February 7th :
    • Rene Préval gains the presidential election with Haiti with 51% of the votes, as of the first turn.
  • February 10th :
  • February 10th :
  • February 12th :
    • the President of the Republic of the Cape Verde Pedro Pires, candidate of PAICV (socialist) is re-elected for a second five-year period with 50,98% of the voices compared with 49,02% with Carlos de Carvalho Vega, candidate of MPD (preserving).
  • February 14th :
    • UNO announces that the lawsuit of the Khmer Rouge shown Génocide, among which Your Mok (known as the Butcher ) imprisoned since 1999, should start in 2007.
  • February 17th :
  • February 22nd :
    • attack destroying the dome of the Gold Mosque of Samarra.
  • February 26th :
    • Agreement in principle Russo - Iran IEN on the creation of a joint company of enrichment of the Iranian Uranium in Russia.
    • Closing ceremony of the XXe Olympic Games of winter in Turin (Italy).
  • February 27th :
    • the militant nationalist Basque of the ETA, Igor Angulo, 32 years, condemned to a 34 years of prison sorrow, and imprisoned since 1996, is hung in its cell, of the prison of Cuenca, in Castille it Manche, Spain.
  • February 28th :
    • Opening to Yamoussoukro, the official capital of the Ivory Coast, an extraordinary summit bringing together all the protagonists of the crisis of the Ivory Coast - it is about the first ground meeting of the Ivory Coast of the main leaders since the beginning of the civil war, in September 2002 - in the presence of the president of the Republic, Laurent Gbagbo, of the Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny, of the chief of the rebels, Guillaume Soro, and of the leaders of the two principal parties of opposition, the ex-First minister Alassane Ouattara and the former Head of the State Henri Konan Bédié.
    • the Office of State of statistics (BES) Chinese announces that the Chinese population increased by 7,68 million people in 2005, that is to say a natural growth of 5,89 per thousand, against 5,87 per thousand in 2004. With the December 31st 2005, the Chinese population reached 1.307.560 000 people, including 562 million people living downtown and 745 million people in the rural regions. On this total figure, one counts 674 million men (either 51,5%) and 634 million women (or 48,5%). In 2005, the China recorded more than 16 million births and approximately 8,49 million death.
    • the Chinese Parliament, at the time of the 20th session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Assembly of China, joined together with Beijing, ratifies International convention against the financing of the Terrorisme.

March

See also: March 2006

  • March 1st :
    • the negotiations Russo - Iran iennes on the Nucléaire stumbles on the question of the moratorium about enrichment in Iran, required by Moscow and rejected by Teheran.
    • Coming into effect in China of the “ law on the Penalties for offense with the law and order ”, comprising provisions prohibiting with the police force to resort to the Torture, the threat and the lie to obtain confessions, as well as the use of illegal means to obtain evidence. The law defines detailed procedures of investigation applicable to the people continued for attack with the law and order, and expects that the authorities of police force will have also to expose to the accused the facts, the reasons and the legal base concerning the incurred penalties, all in their explaining the rights which they enjoy.
  • 6 with the March 15th :
    • Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Assistant general secretary of UNO in load of the operations of maintenance of peace, pays its fifth visit in Democratic republic of Congo, to on the spot realize, whereas the period which opens is critical, of completed work since the beginning of the Transition , the challenges which remain to be raised and what remains to be made in the preparation of the elections, envisaged the June 18th.
  • March 7th :
    • France: Very strong mobilization anti-CPE (Contrat First Engages): more than one million young people and employees who denounce the conditions of the CPE which makes it possible an employer to require of paid one the 2 years trial period and being able to lay off it without any reason for this trial period.
  • March 11th :
    • France: The CRS have evacuated of force the students locked up for three days in the Sorbonne to protest against the Contrat first engages (CPE).
  • March 13rd :
    • the French Stephan Mifsud establishes the dynamic world records of Apnée with palms to 213 m in swimming pool.
  • March 16th :
    • Chad: Principal the Left and Chadian political movements of which the deputy Ngarlejy Yorongar, coordinator of the action Federation for Republic (FAR) and Mika Lelita Yondoloum, president of the Liberal party of Chad (PLT), ask for the carryforward of the presidential election planned for on May 3rd, 2006 and the sending of international observers so that it is really democratic, just and transparent.
  • March 22nd :
    • Basque Country: The separatist organization Basque ETA announces a permanent cease-fire by justifying its decision by the need “for advancing the democratic process with the Basque Country in order to build a new framework in which our rights as people will be recognized”.

April

See also: April 2006

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    • Italy: Abdul Rahman arrives at Rome and thanks the pope Benoît XVI and the Italian government to have accommodated it whereas it was death threat in his country.

  • April 4th :

    • France: Nation-wide strike: Anti-CPE demonstration in tens of towns of France gathering approximately 1 million demonstrators according to the police force and 3 million according to the organizers.

  • 9 and April 10th :

    • Italy: legislative Elections 2006 in Italy, which mark the victory of Romano Prodi, leader of the left coalition the Union, with a very narrow majority for the House of Commons of 49,805% of the voices compared with 49,739% for the Maison of freedoms of right-hand side. Silvio Berlusconi, leader of this coalition, refuses the victory of the left, and asks for the recount of the voices and the formation of a great coalition.

  • April 11th :

    • Italy: Arrest in a farm of Corleone in Sicily, Bernardo Provenzano, Godfather of the Godfathers of Cosa Nostra, the Maffia Sicilian, in mare since 43 years.

  • April 12th :

    • Belgium, Brussels (central station): Tragedy assassination of Joe Van Holsbeek.

  • April 20th :

    • Jacques Chirac goes in Egypt to inaugurate a news Université and to commemorate the crash landing of the plane with Sharm-el-Sheik.

  • April 21st :

    • Elisabeth II festival her 80 years.

  • April 22nd :

    • France: Finale of the Cut of the Football league to the Stade de France. The ACE Nancy Lorraine is essential by 2 goals on 1 vis-a-vis OGC Nice.

  • April 23rd :

    • Belgium: News White Walk in the streets of Brussels, nearly ten years after the first (October 20th 1996) following the murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck, 17 years. Joe had been stabbed during the flight of his reader MP3 on April 12th, 2006 in full central station with Brussels. This walk will have mobilized nearly 80.000 people.

May

See also: May 2006

  • May 14th :

    • Rene Préval, victorious of the presidential election of the February 7th, becomes officially president of Haiti.
    • the comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (SW-3) passed to nearest to the Earth, this comet had mysteriously split up in 1995 (3 principal fragments but the exact number remains still unknown).

  • May 17th :

    • World: First world Journée of the Company of the information which will be celebrated every year with an aim of sensitizing on the changes that offers the Internet but also ways of reducing the Digital divide.

  • May 21st :

    • Referendum on the independence of Montenegro: the Montenegro vote to 55,4% in favor of independence.
    • France: Inauguration of the third tram line of Grenoble.

  • May 22nd :

    • France: Dominique Perben, Minister for transport, presents his plane for the renewal of the railway network.

  • May 26th :

    • Anne Kerkhove is elected national president of the federation of the Parents of Raised State education PEEP.

  • May 27th :

    • a Séisme of a magnitude of 5,9 degrees strikes Yogyakarta and its surroundings, in Indonesia, making more than 5000 dead.

  • May 31st :

    • With the Quebec, coming into effect of a law anti-tobacco strict, identical to that already adopted at several places in North America, formally prohibiting the use of the tobacco in all the bars and restaurants of the province.

June

See also: June 2006

  • June 1st :

    • Fusion between Wanadoo and Orange of the France Telecom group which will give the Orange mark.
    • Beginning of the season of the hurricanes with the the United States.
  • June 2nd :
    • Arrest of 17 suspects in the dismantling of an terrorist cell in the area of Toronto, with the Canada.
  • June 3rd :
  • June 5th :
  • June 9th :
    • Beginning of the Football world cup in Germany. The tournament will end the July 9th.
  • June 11th :
    • Rafael Nadal gains for the second consecutive time the Internationaux of France of Roland-Garros.
  • June 20th :
  • June 22nd :
    • Saddam Hussein, former dictator deposed Iraq IEN, starts a Hunger strike, to protest against the assassination of its lawyer.
  • June 23rd :
    • France - Togo: capital match for the Team of France, which qualifies itself in eighth of finale of the Football world cup.
  • June 27th :
    • the France gained 3 to 1 against the Spain at the time of the the world cup organized by FIFA in Germany, it is thus qualified to play against Brazil.
  • June 28th :

July

See also: July 2006

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    • Departure of the Tour de France to Strasbourg. Three of the principal favorites were isolated starting line.
    • European Union: coming into effect of the directive on the restriction of dangerous substances in electronics.
    • Football world cup: the Équipe of France eliminates Équipe from Brazil on a final score of 1-0, and is qualified for the semi-finals vis-a-vis the Portugal.
  • July 2nd :
    • Mexico: legislative elections presidential and
    • brought into service of the first Valencian tram line of
  • July 3rd :
  • July 4th :
    • the Équipe of Germany of football is eliminated by the Équipe from Italy from football 2 to 0 in the 2 last minutes from the 2nd half-time from the prolongation.
  • July 5th :
    • Football world cup: the Équipe of France is qualified for the final where she will be opposed to the Squadra Azzurra by eliminating the Portugal on a final score from 1 to 0.
  • July 9th :
    • Fine of the Football world cup of 2006. Italy gains the title vis-a-vis the France after the meeting of shootings to the goals (1-1 at the end of regulatory time).
  • July 12th :
  • July 14th :
    • In the scandal of the faked matches championship of Italian football, the Juventus of Turin, the Fiorentina and the Lazio Rome are relegated in series B (the 2nd division). The fourth team concerned, the Milan AC, remains in Série has, but is penalized of 8 points. (Milan was not initially to dispute the League of the Champions, but finally obtained win)
  • Of the 14 to the July 23rd :
    • Ceremonies of the 800e birthday of the town of founded Dresden in 1206
  • July 17th :
    • israélo-Lebanese Conflict of 2006: French the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin goes in visit to Beirut, whereas the capital Lebanon ease is subjected to Israeli bombardments .
    • Indonesia: with 17:07 local time (Paris 11h07 time), new a Tsunami touched the island indonésienne Java. Caused by a Seism of a magnitude 7,7, intervened a few minutes earlier with 250 kilometers of the coast, he saw waves of two meters in height break on the south-western coast of the island, devastating all on their passage, flap of the buildings and damaging fishing vessels. The last assessment gives a report of at least 530 dead and more on 400 wounded. Many tourists appear among the victims.
    • France: creation, with Avignon, in the Main courtyard of the Palate of the Popes, within the framework of the Festival of Avignon, of the part of Maxime Gorki the Barbarians , put in scene by Eric Lacascade, which offers a kind of international recognition to an ignored part of the Russian writer, one century after she was written (1905).
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  • July 30th :

August

See also: August 2006

  • Of the 2 with the August 6th :

  • August 10th:
    • the Palate Skoda, a building of style Art déco built, with the turning of the Twenties and Thirties of the 20th century, by the architect Pavel Janák to shelter the head office of the automobile factories Skoda, becomes the new town hall of Prague.
    • Scotland Yard announces to have thwarted a attack on the transatlantic lines of the United Kingdom.
  • August 14th:
    • Introduction of a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon in order to put an end to the conflict which them ensanglante since 33 days.
  • August 23rd:
    • Austria: the young person Natascha Kampusch, 18 years old, removed in 1998 by Wolfgang Priklopil to lock up it in a cellar of his house succeeds in fleeing after eight years of captivity, a single event which upsets and which impassions.
  • August 26th :
    • BarCampEarth, first birthday of the movement BarCamp. Two meetings (Paris and Alsace).

September

See also: September 2006

October

See also: October 2006

  • October 1st :

  • October 2nd :
  • October 6th :
    • Inauguration of the first phase of the second tram line of Saint-Etienne (Course Victor Hugo-Place of People-Station TGV Châteaucreux) after 3 years of work and multiple refittings and new installations: Gambetta streets, General-Foy, Eleven-November, avenues of the Release and the General-Leclerc, Fourneyron places, of the People, Anatole-France and of Ursules, street Dalgabio, square of the gare* from October 7th to 15th : festival of Extramuros in Saint-Etienne related to the inauguration of the second tram line, and inaugural evening of the re-entry coed in Ursules (October 13rd).
    • Gambia: presidential election.
    • Madagascar: presidential election
    • Montserrat: legislative elections
    • Nicaragua: legislative elections presidential and .
  • October 8th :
    • Belgium: communal and provincial Elections of 2006
  • October 14th:
  • October 15th :
    • Greece: Municipal elections and secondary roads.
  • October 19th :
  • of the October 25th to the October 29th:
    • 33e world Festival of the underwater image of Antibes

November

See also: November 2006

November 18th: Nomination of cathy Josefowitz as president of the congress of the Parisian painters.

December

See also: December 2006

Chronologies sets of themes

Arts & culture

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of it

Principal deaths

See also: Death in 2006

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Principal religious holidays

See too

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