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Anniversaries 2007

During the 2006-2007 biennium, UNESCO was associated with the celebration of 63 anniversaries proposed by Member States and approved by the 33rd session of the General Conference (October 2005), in accordance with the selection criteria, adopted by the Executive Board (Decision 7.5 of the 159th session, May 2000), for such association.


The following list presents the celebrations for 2007 (2006 also available).

800th anniversary of the birth of Mawlana Jalal-ud-Din Balkhi-Rumi (Mevlana Celaleddin Belhī Rūmī), poet and philosopher (1207-1273) 2007
“I do not distinguish between the relative and the stranger.”
100th anniversary of the birth of Jean Carzou (Garnik Zoulumian), painter (1907-2000) 2007
100th anniversary of the birth of Norair Sisakyan, scientist (1907-1966) 2007
200th anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Orda, composer (1807-1883) 2007
100th anniversary of the birth of Emilian Stanev, writer (1907 - 1979) 2007
100th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Mbandaka and the Zoo and Botanical Garden of Eala 2007
300th anniversary of the birth of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) 2007
1,500th anniversary of the construction of the Jvari Church in Mtskheta 2007
400th anniversary of the first performance of Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi (1607) 2007
300th anniversary of the birth of Carlo Goldoni, playwright (1707-1793) 2007
100th anniversary of the birth of Hideki Yukawa, physicist (1907-1981) 2007
150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, writer (1857-1924) 2007
50th anniversary of the death of Constantin Brancusi (Brâncuşi), sculptor (1876-1957) 2007
250th anniversary of the foundation of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (1757)
100th anniversary of the birth of Ladislav Hanus, philosopher (1907-1994) 2007
100th anniversary of the creation of the Committee for the Promotion of Studies and Scientific Research (1907) 2007
2000th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Marg’ilon (Margilan) 2007
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