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2009 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 2009
MMIX
Ab urbe condita 2762
Armenian calendar 1458
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԸ
Assyrian calendar 6759
Bahá'í calendar 165–166
Bengali calendar 1416
Berber calendar 2959
British Regnal year 57 Eliz. 2 – 58 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar 2553
Burmese calendar 1371
Byzantine calendar 7517–7518
Chinese calendar 戊子(Earth Rat)
4705 or 4645
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4706 or 4646
Coptic calendar 1725–1726
Discordian calendar 3175
Ethiopian calendar 2001–2002
Hebrew calendar 5769–5770
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 2065–2066
 - Shaka Samvat 1930–1931
 - Kali Yuga 5109–5110
Holocene calendar 12009
Igbo calendar 1009–1010
Iranian calendar 1387–1388
Islamic calendar 1430–1431
Japanese calendar Heisei 21
(平成21年)
Javanese calendar 1941–1942
Juche calendar 98
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar 4342
Minguo calendar ROC 98
民國98年
Nanakshahi calendar 541
Thai solar calendar 2552
Unix time 1230768000–1262303999

2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium, the 9th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.

2009 was designated as:

Events[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

Train commuters in Mexico City wearing surgical masks due to the outbreak of swine flu

May[edit]

June[edit]

"June 2009" redirects here. For the album by Toro Y Moi, see June 2009 (album).
A clash between pro-Zelaya protesters and the Honduran military

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

Leaders of the G-20 countries present at the Pittsburgh Summit

October[edit]

Moment of the announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics

November[edit]

December[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Main article: Deaths in 2009

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

May[edit]

June[edit]

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Nobel Prizes[edit]

The Nobel Prize medallion.

In fiction[edit]

Set in 2009:

  1. Series 3 (2007) episode Last of the Time Lords is set mainly in a parallel year.
  2. Series 4 (2008) episodes Partners In Crime, The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth/Journey's End; and Turn Left, which is set in a parallel universe.

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