2007 in Mexico
This is a list of events that happened in 2007 in Mexico.


2007 in Monaco
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Monaco.


2007 in New Zealand
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in New Zealand.


2007 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government
2007 was the second full year since the election of the 48th Parliament. The government was a Labour-Progressive coalition with supply and confidence fromUnited Future and New Zealand First in exchange for two ministerial spots outside Cabinet.


2007 in New Zealand, Sport, Rugby league
see also Rugby league in New Zealand and Rugby league in 2007


2007 in Nigeria
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Nigeria.


2007 in Northern Ireland, Sport, Cricket
2007 Cricket World Cup: In a successful world cup debut, the Ireland cricket team qualified from the group stage for the Super 8 stage, notably defeating Pakistan cricket team in the process.


2007 in Norwegian football
The 2007 season was the 102nd season of competitive football in Norway.


2007 in Norwegian music
The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 2007 in Norwegian music.


2007 in Norwegian television
This is a list of Norwegian television related events from 2007.


2007 in Pakistani television
The following is a list of events affecting Pakistani television in 2007. Events listed include television show debuts, and finales; channel launches, and closures; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about changes of ownership of channels or stations.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship
The year 2007 is the 1st year in the history of Palace Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 PFC held 5 events beginning with, PFC 1: King of the Ring.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 1: King of the Ring
PFC 1: King of the Ring was an event held on January 18, 2007 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 2: Fast and Furious
PFC 2: Fast and Furious was an event held on March 22, 2007 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 3: Step Up
PFC 3: Step Up was an event held on July 19, 2007 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 4: Project Complete
PFC 4: Project Complete was an event held on October 18, 2007 at the Tachi Palace in Lemoore, California, United States.


2007 in Palace Fighting Championship, PFC 5: Beatdown at 4 Bears
PFC 5: Beatdown at 4 Bears was an event held on November 10, 2007 at the 4 Bears Casino and Lodge in New Town, North Dakota.


2007 in Pancrase
The year 2007 is the 15th year in the history of Pancrase, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2007 Pancrase held 17 events beginning with Pancrase: Rising 1.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 1
Pancrase: Rising 1 was an event held on February 4, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 2
Pancrase: Rising 2 was an event held on February 28, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Korea Hybrid Challenge
Pancrase: Korea Hybrid Challenge was an event held on March 11, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 3
Pancrase: Rising 3 was an event held on March 18, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations
Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations was an event held on March 25, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Real 2007
Pancrase: Real 2007 was an event held on April 8, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 4
Pancrase: Rising 4 was an event held on April 27, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals
Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals was an event held on May 6, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 5
Pancrase: Rising 5 was an event held on May 30, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals
Pancrase: 2007 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals was an event held on July 27, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 6
Pancrase: Rising 6 was an event held on September 5, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 7
Pancrase: Rising 7 was an event held on September 30, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 8
Pancrase: Rising 8 was an event held on October 14, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Hybrid Bout in Utsunomiya 3
Pancrase: Hybrid Bout in Utsunomiya 3 was an event held on October 27, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 9
Pancrase: Rising 9 was an event held on November 28, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: 2007 Korea Neo-Blood Tournament
Pancrase: 2007 Korea Neo-Blood Tournament was an event held on December 16, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Pancrase, Pancrase: Rising 10
Pancrase: Rising 10 was an event held on December 22, 2007 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Paraguayan football
The following article presents a summary of the 2007 football (soccer) season in Paraguay.


2007 in Paraguayan football, First division results
The first division tournament was divided in two sections: the Apertura and the Clausura and had 12 teams participating in a two round all-play-all system. The team with the most points at the end of the two rounds was crowned as the champion.


2007 in Paraguayan football, First division results, Championship game playoff
The national championship game was played between the Apertura and Clausura tournaments winners.


2007 in Paraguayan football, First division results, Championship game playoff
Libertad declared as national champions by aggregate score of 3-1.


2007 in Paraguayan football, Paraguay national team
The following table lists all the games played by the Paraguay national football team in official competitions during 2007.


2007 in Philippine television
The following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 2007. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.


2007 in Polish television
This is a list of Polish television related events from 2007.


2007 in Portuguese television
This is a list of Portuguese television related events from 2007.


2007 in Pride FC
The year 2007 is the 11th year in the history of the Pride Fighting Championships, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. 2007 had 2 events beginning with, Pride 33 - The Second Coming.


2007 in Pride FC, Debut Pride FC fighters
The following fighters fought their first Pride FC fight in 2007:


2007 in Rwanda
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Rwanda.


2007 in Scottish television
This is a list of events in Scottish television from 2007.


2007 in Shooto
The year 2007 is the 19th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2007 Shooto held 22 events beginning with, Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 1.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 1
Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 1 was an event held on January 26, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 1
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 1 was an event held on February 17, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: It's Strong Being a Man
Shooto: It's Strong Being a Man was an event held on March 4, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 2
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 2 was an event held on March 16, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Central 12
Shooto: Gig Central 12 was an event held on March 25, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 2
Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 2 was an event held on March 30, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig West 7
Shooto: Gig West 7 was an event held on April 21, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Grapplingman 6
Shooto: Grapplingman 6 was an event held on May 13, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 3
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 3 was an event held on May 18, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 3
Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 3 was an event held on May 26, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 1: Saturday Night Hero
Shooto: Shooting Disco 1: Saturday Night Hero was an event held on June 2, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto 2007: 6/30 in Kitazawa Town Hall
Shooto 2007: 6/30 in Kitazawa Town Hall was an event held on June 30, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 4
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 4 was an event held on July 15, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 4
Shooto: Battle Mix Tokyo 4 was an event held on July 20, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 2: The Heat Rises Tonight
Shooto: Shooting Disco 2: The Heat Rises Tonight was an event held on August 5, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig North 1
Shooto: Gig North 1 was an event held on September 2, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 5
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 5 was an event held on September 22, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig West 8
Shooto: Gig West 8 was an event held on September 29, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Gig Central 13
Shooto: Gig Central 13 was an event held on October 8, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Shooting Disco 3: Everybody Fight Now
Shooto: Shooting Disco 3: Everybody Fight Now was an event held on October 20, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Back To Our Roots 6
Shooto: Back To Our Roots 6 was an event held on November 8, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Shooto, Shooto: Rookie Tournament 2007 Final
Shooto: Rookie Tournament 2007 Final was an event held on December 8, 2007 at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.


2007 in Sierra Leone
The following list is of events that happened during 2007 in Sierra Leone.


2007 in Singapore
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in the Republic of Singapore.


2007 in Somalia
The timeline of events in the War in Somalia during 2007 is set out below.


2007 in Somalia
*The number includes policemen, militiamen and intelligence personnel**Other soldiers killed: 2  Kenyan, 6  Ugandan


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 1, 2007
On January 1, Islamists abandoned their last stronghold in Kismayo. After their departure, looters took to the streets, but order was restored shortly. The Islamists are reportedly retreating toward the Kenyan border. Kenya has boosted security at the border to prevent them from entering their territory.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 1, 2007
African and Arab League countries have called on Ethiopia to withdraw its troops from Somalia, but these troops practically constitute the military might of the Interim Government whose head, Ali Mohamed Gedi, insists the Ethiopian troops stay in Somalia until he no longer needs them.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 1, 2007
In a move to curb resistance against the come-back of the Interim government, after the take-over of Mogadishu on Friday, Ali Mohammed Gedi swiftly announced the introduction of martial law, but such a measure, taken on the background of what is seen as foreign occupation, is already sparking the organization of guerrilla warfare in the capital.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 1, 2007
On December 31, 2006, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), along with other senior ICU officials in the port city of Kismayu about 500 km (310 mi) south of Mogadishu, urged Islamist supporters across the country to initiate an insurgency to wage guerrilla war against the Ethiopian troops backing the Somali transitional government. Ahmed issued the statement after the Muslim Eid prayers on Saturday: "I call on the Islamic Courts fighters, supporters and every true Muslim to start an insurgency against the Ethiopian troops in Somalia. We are telling the Ethiopians in Somalia that they will never succeed in their mission. By Allah, they will fail... We will not allow the Ethiopian troops to stay peacefully in Somalia."


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 2, 2007
Two Ethiopian soldiers were killed and three injured by one gunman in the town of Jilib. The suspected Islamist gunman was killed along with two Somalis later in the day. Kenya sealed its Somali border with helicopters, soldiers, and police in order to prevent Islamists from entering. During the course of the day Ethiopian helicopters accidentally bombed a Kenyan border post at Har Har, but did not cause any casualties. The Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf also met with Mwai Kibaki in Mombasa, Kenya.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 2, 2007
Prime minister Meles Zenawi said Ethiopia is not able to stay in Somalia because of the high economic burden that would come with a prolonged troop investment. A call for peacekeepers has been made but many countries are reluctant to intervene without a clear mission and are wary of what happened in prior peacekeeping missions.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 2, 2007
On January 2, 2007, US Marines operating out of Lamu, Kenya, were said to be assisting Kenyan forces patrolling the border with Somalia with the interception of Islamists.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 3, 2007
Ethiopian aircraft and attack helicopters struck the town of Doble (Dhoobley), Afmadow province, not far from the Kenyan border. The strikes were presumably to hit ICU elements attempting to cross the border. Fighting tailed off after midnight.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 3, 2007
A return to normality in the capital was furthered by the re-opening of the Mogadishu airport.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 4, 2007
Unconfirmed reports said six Kenyan herders were killed by Ethiopian aircraft that crossed over the border of Somalia. Cordoning off the border, 20 Kenyan tanks were dispatched to patrol the frontier stretching between Liboi, in Garissa district to Kiunga, Lamu district. Reports said ICU troops were split across Afmadow and Badade districts, and possibly concentrated at the former Al-Ittihad Al-Islamiya (AIAI) stronghold of Ras Kamboni. TFG and Ethiopian forces reported taking district capital Afmadow (January 2), and Dhobley along the Kenyan border (January 3), and were presently en route to Badade, the district capital just north of Ras Kamboni. In Nairobi, up to ten of the twenty Somali Members of Parliament in Kenya who were alleged to have ties to the Islamic Courts were taken into custody. One report said five were taken into custody. Another report said ten.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 4, 2007
Unknown gunmen thought to be Somali Islamists fired shots at a Kenyan security helicopter patrolling near the border with Somalia. The helicopter was flying over the southeastern Kenyan border town of Hulugho. The report did not say if the aircraft was damaged but said gunmen fired small arms from the region of Ras Kamboni, the base for the fleeing Islamists.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 4, 2007
In Mogadishu, TFG militias set up checkpoints in the city. At one checkpoint, a group of militia apparently attempted to extort money from the driver of an oil tanker truck. In the ensuing argument, a rocket was fired at the vehicle, injuring at least 2 or 3 people. The vehicle had been carrying dozens of passengers who disembarked before the rocket attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 5, 2007
On January 5, 2007, Sheikh Farah Moallim Mohamud became the highest-ranking member of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) to be captured by the Ethiopian-Somali forces. He was apprehended near Beledweyne then later released because of the general amnesty offered to Islamists who surrendered to the government.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 5, 2007
On January 5, 2007, TFG Defense Minister Col. Barre Aden Shire Hiiraale announced: "Today we will launch a massive assault on the Islamic courts militias. We will use infantry troops and fighter jets... They have dug huge trenches around Ras Kamboni but have only two options: to drown in the sea or to fight and die." Fighting continued January 6 in the jungles south of Kismayo near the Kenyan border, where it was reported the Islamists were holding out armed with over 100 technicals.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, Battle of Ras Kamboni
The battle at Ras Kamboni was fought over January 5–12, 2007. During the operations, a US airstrike hit Badmadow Island in an attempt to kill Al Qaeda operatives embedded within ICU forces, and a series of Ethiopian airstrikes occurred to the north in Afmadow district.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 6, 2007
On January 6, a crowd of more than 100 rioters gathered near Tarabunka square in Mogadishu. They protested the presence of Ethiopian troops as well as the plans to disarm the populace. Prime Minister Ghedi issued a decision to postpone the disarmament for an indefinite amount of time.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 7, 2007
Clashes broke out between Somali protesters and Ethiopian soldiers in the border town of Beledweyne after a town official was arrested for refusing to hand over a leading member of the Islamic Courts Union. Three people were reportedly injured.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 7, 2007
A small skirmish has broken out in the Somali capital Mogadishu between Somali militiamen and the Ethiopian forces killing at least two persons and wounding two others. The clashes came after armed militiamen attacked military vehicles belonged to Ethiopian troops passing in front of the Sahafi hotel in southern Mogadishu. Both the dead and the injured were Somalis. The dead persons were a 13-year-old girl and a TFG soldier who died when his hand grenade accidentally exploded and one of the wounded was an old man who was in serious condition.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 8, 2007
On January 8, 2007 as the Battle of Ras Kamboni raged, TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed entered Mogadishu for the first time since being elected. It was announced the government would be relocated to Villa Somalia, in Mogadishu, from its interim location at Baidoa. Prof. Ibrahim Hassan Addow, representative of the ICU, speaking from Yemen, said the Islamic Courts were ready to enter negotiations with the Transitional Federal Government. However, TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed categorically refused to hold peace talks at this stage.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 8, 2007
On January 8 it was reported that an AC-130 gunship belonging to the United States military had attacked suspected Al-Qaeda operatives in Southern Somalia. Most casualties were said to be Islamic fighters. The aircraft flew out of its base in Djibouti. Many bodies were spotted on the ground, but the identity of the dead or wounded was not yet established. The targeted leaders were tracked by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as they headed south from Mogadishu starting on December 28. One attack was made well inland at Hayo (or Xayo, approx.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 8, 2007
Lat 0º28' N, Long 41º49' E), a village halfway between Afmadow and Dhobley. It was also reported that the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had been moved into striking distance. Other named US Navy vessels joining the maritime cordon included the USS Anzio and the amphibious landing ship USS Ashland.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 8, 2007
On January 8, 2007, to the north of Ras Kamboni, elsewhere in Badhadhe province, an Ethiopian force intercepted Islamist forces in the area of the Kenyan border town of Amuma, Garissa district. Seven vehicles were destroyed. A platoon of Kenyan border police were in the area to enforce the border closure. In Afmadow province, Ethiopia launched airstrikes against targets near Afmadow and Dhobley.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 9, 2007
On January 9, 2007, seven Pakistani members of the Tabliq (Tablighi Jamaat) were arrested in Mogadishu near the Presidential Palace of Villa Somalia, causing a local protest. Ethiopian and Somali troops were attacked in Mogadishu for the second time in a week with one soldier reportedly being killed and others wounded. A young girl was also wounded in the attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 9, 2007
An insurgent attack on government barrack began at 7:30pm, Tuesday, near KM4 (Kilometer 4 Street), which resulted in one soldier dead and six wounded. The firefight lasted an hour.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 9, 2007
On January 9, it was reported U.S. special forces and CIA operatives are working with Ethiopian troops on the ground in operations inside Somalia, and have been involved in numerous missions since the beginning of the war. US forces have been operating from Galkayo within Somalia, and from Camp Lemonnier, an American camp established in Djibouti following 9/11.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 10, 2007
On January 10, 2007, due to the barrack attack, significant street fighting broke out in Mogadishu stretching from dawn to afternoon in a multi-party daylight clash between troops of the national government, Ethiopian soldiers, Islamic insurgents and local militias. Government soldiers cordoned off areas of the city and began a house-to-house search for weapons. At Medina hospital, 15 people, including three government soldiers, had been admitted for gunshot wounds over the past 24 hours, and patients overflowed the hospital's 65 beds. At least one TFG soldier was reported to be dead at the end of the day.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 10, 2007
On January 10, chief of staff to the Somali president, Abdirizak Hassan, stated that the US claimed Al Qaeda suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, was killed in the AC-130 attack on January 8, as detailed by a US intelligence report. Earlier, a US military official reported that Ethiopian forces provided the targeting information needed for the attack. The official also said that five to 10 people were killed in the airstrikes. However, a Somali official countered that US airstrikes killed 31 civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 10, 2007
At least four more AC-130 airstrikes were said to have hit Ras Kamboni. Somali politician Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig toured the area and spoke of 50 killed in the attacks. He said additional targets hit include Hayo, Garer, Bankajirow and Badmadowe. The U.S. government denied the additional attacks were made by the US. Ethiopian aircraft are also known to be operating in the combat area. The verification of the death of Mohammed followed private comments made by US Defence Department officials that further airstrikes were possibly being planned. A second planned attack was reportedly called off after losing track of the target.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 11, 2007
Unknown Somali fighters launched grenades into Hotel Ambassador in Mogadishu, exchanging gunfire with Somali and Ethiopian troops positioned inside the hotel. One of the wounded soldiers is in critical condition and is a personal body guard of Gen. Ali Madobe, the Somali national police chief.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 11, 2007
On January 11, the American ambassador to Kenya said that the US claimed Al Qaeda suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was actually still alive and that none of the Al Qaeda members were killed in the air attack but some members of the ICU were killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 12, 2007
Up to seven people were killed when the militiamen of clan leader Mohamed Afrah Qanyare fought members of a rival clan who were guarding the presidential palace. All of the dead were said to be Qanyare's fighters. There were reports that the fighting was sparked by a parking dispute involving an armored vehicle.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 12, 2007
According to Oxfam, a British-based aid agency, 70 herdsmen were killed in recent air raids targeting Islamic militants.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 12, 2007
On January 12, TFG Defense Minister Barre Aden Shirre Hiiraale announced Ras Kamboni had fallen to the Somali government and Ethiopian forces after five days of heavy fighting. Remnants of the Islamist forces were being pursued into the nearby forests and fighting would continue. A small team of US forces investigated the site of the US gunship attack to search for information about the identity and fate of the targeted individuals.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 13, 2007
On January 13, nine people were ambushed and killed in Biyo Adde, 50 km northeast of Jowhar. Revenge by a sub-clan was cited as the motive.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 14, 2007
Multiple attacks against Ethiopian and Somali government troops broke out in the capital with reports of one dead government soldier and three others who had their weapons confiscated after an unknown group of militiamen attacked a police station in the Huriwa district. Another attack on a convoy of Ethiopian and government soldiers happened in the former Islamic Courts stronghold of Ifka Halane in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 14, 2007
At least 13 were killed and 12-18 wounded in a militia clash between the Murasade and Hawdle tribes in Goobo, between Hiran and Galgadud regions. Government forces were dispatched to the town.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 14, 2007
In Garissa Kenya, police arrested 7 Somalis, suspected of being fleeing Islamic militiamen heading towards Nairobi. One was wounded. 10 others escaped.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 15, 2007
On January 15, a gun battle lasting at least an hour killed at least two people in Eimiska, a northeastern neighborhood of Mogadishu. Attackers in two pickup trucks fired rocket propelled grenades at an Ethiopian and government convoy. One man known to have been killed was thought to be deaf and therefore did not respond when soldiers ordered him to go back. The same day, the TFG closed the radio stations for Shabelle Radio, Horn Afrik, IQK, and the television station Al-Jazeera in Mogadishu without explanation.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 15, 2007
On January 15, it was reported a British SAS team was also on the ground at the Kenyan border looking for the fleeing Al Qaeda suspects.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 17, 2007
On January 17, 2007, conflicting reports emerged over whether Sheikh Sharif Ahmed had been arrested near the Dadaab refugee camp in the Garissa district of Kenya. Also today, a U.S. official in a press conference said she believed the U.S. AC-130 raid had killed eight soldiers of Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, head of an Islamist militia. Ayro is believed to have been wounded in the attack and perhaps killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 17, 2007
Also on that day, the Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense for African affairs, Theresa Whelan, clarified the airstrike conducted on January 8 was not the work of the CJTF-HOA, but of another force which she did not specify. The target of the strike was confirmed to be Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, who was believed wounded or possibly dead, while eight members of his group were killed in the attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 17, 2007
The US ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, said the US pledged $40 million to support the deployment of the IGASOM peacekeeping force for Somalia.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 19, 2007
On January 19, 2007 the pro-Islamic Courts Union website featured a video describing the reformation of the ICU into the Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations (PRM). On January 24, Sheikh Abdikadir was announced to be commander of the PRM in the Banadir region.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 19, 2007
On the same day, the AMISOM mission was formally defined and approved by the African Union at the 69th meeting of the Peace and Security Council.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 22, 2007
On January 22, Malawi agreed to send a half-battalion to a battalion (ranging widely anywhere between approximately 400 to 1,200 troops) for a peacekeeping mission to Somalia.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 23, 2007
On January 23, 2007, Ethiopia began withdrawing from Mogadishu and all other areas in Somalia.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 24, 2007
On January 24, the U.S. admitted to have made a second airstrike, but did not confirm the exact date or location of the strike. Also on that day, Nigeria pledged a battalion (a force between 770 and 1,100 troops) to join the Somali peacekeeping mission.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 25, 2007
On January 25, 2007 an Ethiopian soldier was killed and another seriously injured in Karamiyo, one of the last towns to fall to the Ethiopians. It is estimated that more than 3,000 Islamist gunmen have gone into hiding.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, January 31, 2007
On January 31, the PRM released a video warning African Union peacekeepers to avoid coming to Somalia, claiming "Somalia is not a place where you will earn a salary - it is a place where you will die."


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 1, 2007
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was withdrawn by the US and redeployed to the Persian Gulf. Other ships of its carrier strike group, the USS Bunker Hill and the USS Ashland remain off the coast of Somalia.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 1, 2007
Also on February 1, Burundi committed to the peacekeeping mission, pledging up to 1,000 troops.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 2, 2007
On February 2, the United Nations Security Council welcomed the advent of the African Union and IGAD-led peacekeeping mission.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 9, 2007
On February 9, a gathering of 800 Somali demonstrators in north Mogadishu, where Islamist support was strongest, burned U.S., Ethiopian, and Ugandan flags in protest of the proposed peacekeeping mission. A masked representative of the resistance group, the Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations, said Ethiopian troops would be attacked in their hotels; the same group had made a video warning peace-keepers to avoid coming to Somalia. By this date, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Burundi had committed to the peacekeeping mission, but the total force was about half of the proposed 8,000-strong force. Uganda had pledged 1,400 troops and some armored vehicles for a mission lasting up to 9 months, and the AU had pledged $11.6 million.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 15, 2007
On February 15, in Houston, Texas, U.S. citizen Daniel Joseph Maldonado (Daniel Aljughaifi) was charged with "training from a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use an explosive device outside the United States." He had been extradited by Kenyan authorities after he fled there. In the charges, it was alleged he took part in training at camps near Kismayo and Jilib where members of Al-Qaeda were present and was willing to become a suicide bomber if he became wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 15, 2007
In Mogadishu, a mortar and rocket barrage killed at least one person and wounded more than 10. At least five mortar rounds were fired at the Mogadishu seaport. Three landed on the adjacent beach where a teenage boy was killed and others were wounded. Another mortar round landed in the Black Sea neighborhood of Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops, barracked in the old Somali National University campus, responded with a rocket counterattack. Six others were wounded around the city in scattered mortar attacks. It was the first night of violence after two mostly peaceful days in the city.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 16, 2007
On February 16, Uganda announced it would soon deploy 1,500 well-seasoned troops under the command of Major General Levi Karuhanga. The troops had been training for two years in preparation for the mission.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 18, 2007
On February 18, 2007 Mogadishu witnessed its first car bomb, with four fatalities.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 18, 2007
In an ambush in Mogadishu 1 TFG policeman was killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 20, 2007
On February 20, a series of mortar attacks left 16 dead and 42 wounded. The total wounded in mortar attacks in the capital since the beginning of the insurgency exceeded 90.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, February 27, 2007
In various attacks in Mogadishu 5 people were killed, including a government-allied militia commander.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 6, 2007
In fighting in Mogadishu 2 insurgents and 1 civilian were killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 23, 2007
Truce between Ethiopian military forces and tribal clans in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 23, 2007
A cargo plane, with 11 people on board, was 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash over Mogadishu. An Islamic group claims responsibility for the attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 26, 2007
Huge explosion in an Ethiopian military base in Mogadishu, Ethiopian soldiers respond with indiscriminate fire killing one civilian.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 27, 2007
Unknown gunmen kill the Somali military official Darud Bier in a mosque of Kismayo.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 27, 2007
Combats between insurgents and Somali police in Beledweyne, two police men injured.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 29, 2007
At least 30 people died in south and north Mogadishu in violent fighting between Ethiopian forces and Somali insurgents. Ethiopian helicopters attacked rebel positions, while the insurgents were calling on the people of the city over the mosque loudspeakers to resist the Ethiopians. Among the killed were 15 Ethiopian soldiers, the rest were civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, March 30, 2007
Islamic insurgents shot down an Ethiopian Mi-24 military helicopter in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 1, 2007
A truce brokered by influential Hawiye-clan elders between the government and the Council of Islamic Courts failed to stop fighting that has left the streets of Mogadishu strewn with dead bodies.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 4, 2007
Amnesty International feared resumption of the indiscriminate attacks that have taken place in the recent days in Mogadishu, resulting in the killing of over 400 civilians. The organization demanded Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, and all armed groups to ensure that their forces strictly abide by international humanitarian law and take all necessary measures to protect civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 21, 2007
At least 165 people have been killed in Mogadishu since April 17, in combats between Ethiopian military forces and Somali insurgents.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 24, 2007
A car bomb exploded outside the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu, killing 11 people.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 24, 2007
A suicide microbus bomb killed 6 people in an Ethiopian military base in Afgoi, 30 km south of Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 25, 2007
A missile hit a hospital ward, in Mogadishu, packed with civilians wounded in fighting between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops allied to the Somali government.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 26, 2007
Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi of Somalia's transitional government is claiming victory over insurgents in Mogadishu. But a former member of parliament, Omar Hashi, now in exile in Eritrea and allied with some Islamists fighting the transitional government, denies that the transitional government is in control of the volatile capital.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, April 28, 2007
Clashes between U.S. backed-Ethiopian forces and fighters aligned with the Islamic Courts Union in the capital Mogadishu are being described as some of the heaviest fighting in the city's history. Humanitarian Crisis Worsens in Somalia: Over three hundred people had been killed over the past two weeks. This comes just three weeks after another series of battles claimed at least a thousand lives.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, May 3, 2007
Human Rights Watch documented how Kenya and Ethiopia had turned the region into Africa's own version of Guantanamo Bay, replete with kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, secret prisons and large numbers of "disappeared".


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, May 16, 2007
A roadside bomb hits a convoy of Ugandan peacekeepers in Mogadishu, killing four and wounding five Ugandan soldiers. A child is also killed in the attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, May 17, 2007
A TFG soldier is killed in an ambush in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 2, 2007
A US warship attacked a village in northeastern Somalia, killing 8 Islamist insurgents.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 2, 2007
At least 3 people were killed in several shooting attacks in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 3, 2007
A suicide truck bomb exploded in front of Somali prime minister's house, killing 7 people and injuring dozens.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 3, 2007
An Ethiopian military convoy was attacked by a roadside bomb in the north of Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 22, 2007
In fighting between rival army units in Kismayo 6 people were killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 22, 2007
In Mogadishu an army officer was killed and a second injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside explosion.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 26, 2007
Two Ethiopian soldiers were killed and two wounded in a roadside bombing in Mogadishu, another two people were killed earlier in the week in Mogadishu and 5 civilians were killed and 8 wounded in a grenade attack on a Somalia military convoy which was passing near Mogadishu's Bakara market yesterday.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, June 26, 2007
In a separate attack two Somalis working for the International Medical Corps relief agency were killed late Wednesday in El-Berde.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, July 29, 2007
Two TFG soldiers and two civilians were killed when insurgents attacked a military patrol in Mogadishu's Bakara market.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, July 31, 2007
40 heavily armed fighters attacked an Ethiopian base close to the Somali capital, Mogadishu. At least four people die in the fighting, with heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 1, 2007
Four Ethiopian soldiers were killed after their base close to the volatile Somali capital Mogadishu came under rocket and machine-gun attack from Islamists. Also six people are killed by a remote controlled bomb in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 9, 2007
At least nine Somali nomads were killed in El Bur district, central Somalia, on Thursday by armed clan militiamen, witnesses and elders said


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 9, 2007
Seven people including two police officers were killed in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 10, 2007
Heavily armed insurgents attacked a military base and a police station with mortars and heavy machine guns. At least three civilians died.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 14, 2007
Fighting erupted in a remote village west of the Somali port city of Kismayo on Tuesday between clan fighters who battled in the same village last week, residents said. Fighters loyal to the Ogaden and Galje'l clans fought each other using rifles and other light weapons. At least 11 fighters were killed and 17 other people wounded in the second round of warfare, elders in Buur Gaabo village said by telephone.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 14, 2007
Fighting across Mogadishu killed 31 civilians and injured another 60 civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 15, 2007
Assailants believed to be members of armed groups opposed to Somalia's transitional government and its Ethiopian allies have killed four police officers in the capital, Mogadishu, in continued fighting described by human rights organisations as mostly affecting civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 16, 2007
A roadside bomb in northern Mogadishu killed three police officers and wounded a large number of civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 17, 2007
At least one person was reported dead Friday in a small village in southern Somalia after tens of people rushed on a building where an aid agency was distributing food, witnesses said. The United Nations' WFP aid agency was distributing food to refugee families in Kuntuwarey, a town in Lower Shabelle region. Some of the refugees had fled increasing violence in the capital Mogadishu between government troops and insurgents.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 18, 2007
Attacks in Mogadishu killed two civilians and injured four others.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 18, 2007
Fighting between two sub-clans in North-western Somalia left at least 16 people dead and 30 wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 19, 2007
In another high-profile assassination, Moallim Harun Moallim Yusuf was gunned down near his home yesterday evening. Moallim Yusuf was a clan elder renowned for negotiating peaceful settlements between warring clans over the past 17 years of civil war.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 21, 2007
A landmine detonated outside of Mogadishu killing two civilians. Other violence in Somalia left nine civilians and a Somalia TFG soldier wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 22, 2007
Gunmen shot and killed a Somali soldier south of Mogadishu at the Yaaqshiid's Fagah intersection and an Ethiopian convoy in Mogadishu was attacked killed 1 Ethiopian soldier and injuring 10 other people.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 24, 2007
Fighting in Huriwa district killed 7 insurgents and 1 TFG government police officer.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 26, 2007
A roadside bomb in Mogadishu killed two students and an elderly civilian.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, August 28, 2007
A police officer received financial reward after shooting dead an insurgent that was about to toss a grenade. Police officers at a north Mogadishu substation killed three insurgents and captured two and one police officer was killed along with two civilians in several explosions in the Bakara market.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 1, 2007
A roadside bomb south of Mogadishu claimed the life of one Somali soldier and two businessmen were shot and killed in Bakara market.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 2, 2007
Insurgents attacked a government station but withdrew after the Somali soldiers were reinforced by Ethiopian soldiers. Two Somali soldiers and two civilians were killed in the fighting.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 3, 2007
Fighting in Galgadud region killed one civilian and three other civilians were killed in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 5, 2007
Heavy fighting in the Bakara market killed 2 Somali soldiers and 2 insurgents but claimed the lives of four civilians in the cross-fire.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 9, 2007
A roadside bomb meant for a passing TFG convoy killed three civilians. No one was hurt or killed in the convoy.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 10, 2007
Fighting in Mogadishu killed 12 civilians and injured many more in different hot-spots. No known government or insurgent casualties.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 11, 2007
A WHO officer was shot and killed by two insurgents.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 13, 2007
An opposition government, consisting of members of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and other Somali elements met and formed in Asmara, Eritrea. Somalia's interior minister, Mohamed Mohamud Guled, ridiculed the meeting and the opposition forces, saying "We are really close to eradicating them."


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 14, 2007
Insurgents attacked police by SOS hospital killing four police officers and three civilians>


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 15, 2007
Fighting in Bakara market killed 1 civilian and injured two others.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 16, 2007
A lone gunman shot and killed clan elder Mohamud Hassan and a security official in Bakara market.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 16, 2007
An insurgent tried to kidnap a child of a government official in Kismayu and in the resulting firefight killed two civilians before dying of his injuries. A third civilian was shot to death by soldiers. The boy was released unharmed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 17, 2007
Artillery clash between Somaliland separatists and Puntland forces in Sool killed two civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 22, 2007
A Somali intelligence official was gunned down in Mogadishu Saturday evening by two suspected insurgents, sources said. The two attackers escaped after using pistols to kill Abdullahi Odohow at a small market in Yaaqshiid district. Odohow, who was a senior official with the Somali national security agency, did not have armed guards with him at the time of the fatal attack. Elsewhere one police officer was killed in an explosion in Bakara market.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 24, 2007
Fighting in northern Mogadishu killed four soldiers and in southern Mogadishu insurgents shot dead two TFG government officials.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 26, 2007
Insurgents attacked the district commander in Huriwa district killing the commander and wounding his second-in-command. A police counterattack killed 3 insurgents and four fellow officers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 27, 2007
In Bakara market insurgents tossed grenades at a Somali government patrol and shot dead one soldier and two civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 29, 2007
Insurgents attacked three police stations and two Ethiopian bases in Mogadishu which led to the death according to some reports of 100 insurgents and 45 Somali soldiers and policemen. Three civilians were killed also.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 29, 2007
Fighting overnight at a Mogadishu sub-station killed 2 TFG police officers and three civilians even though government forces claimed no police had been killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 30, 2007
One Colonel in the TFG government was killed in Bakara market and three other civilians were killed in other incidents in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, September 30, 2007
Troops in Afgoya shot and killed civilians looking for food.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 2, 2007
Local police engaged unidentified militiamen in southern Somalia Monday night in a two-hour-long battled that killed at least two fighters, sources said. The port town of Marka, provincial capital of Lower Shabelle, was relatively quiet all day Tuesday as people largely stayed inside their homes for fear of more armed clashes. Last night's attack erupted around 1 am local time at the town's southern checkpoint where police defended themselves from the militiamen. Five others, including police officers, were wounded in the gun fight.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 4, 2007
In fighting in Mogadishu a policeman and an insurgent were killed. An explosion in Bakaar marketplace killed three civilians and an Ethiopian soldier was killed while on patrol.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 7, 2007
Insurgents attacked a Somali Army General in south Mogadishu and successfully assassinated him, a bodyguard and their military driver.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 7, 2007
A Somali security official was killed in Mogadishu, witnesses said Sunday, as Islamists insurgents brought into their ranks a battle-tested Afghan-trained commander. Gunmen shot dead Ahmed Hareed, a district official for Somali National Security Agency, overnight in the south of the lawless capital, the latest in a string of attacks targeting government employees and sympathisers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 11, 2007
A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in Baidoa killing 3 Ethiopian soldiers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 16, 2007
A nighttime mortar exchange in Mogadishu killed three people hiding in a restaurant and sent seven other civilians to hospital.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 17, 2007
Somali soldiers exchanged gunfire with TFG militiamen in Kismayo over an illegal checkpoint resulting in the death of 1 soldier, wounding of two civilians and the arrest of one gunman.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 17, 2007
Somalia's Northern regions, which until recently enjoyed a relative peace, are on the verge of entering an era of internecine clan warfare similar to, and may be worse than, what has plagued the southern part of the country


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 17, 2007
The Hargeisa-based clan-driven secessionists' northern enclave of Somaliland, in the early hours of October 15, 2007, launched unprovoked armed aggression on the peaceful town of Las Anod, the capital of Sool region in the northern pro-unity State of Puntland. This naked aggression caused the death of at least 12 people and displacement of large residents of the city, as well as injuring unknown number of civilians. The local people are in arms defending their families and their properties against these invaders from their distant stronghold, Hargeisa, which is more than 900 Kilometers from Las Anod.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 18, 2007
A police sub-commander and two bodyguards were assassinated in Mogadishu and a civilian was killed in a grenade attack.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 19, 2007
In Bossasso after a day-long stand-off gunfire erupted killing two suspected Islamic insurgents in Puntland and injuring four police officers, resulting in one of them dying in hospital.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 21, 2007
Fighting overnight in Northern Mogadishu killed seven Ethiopian soldiers throughout northern mogadishu as well as two armed men, and six civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 22, 2007
Fighting between rival government forces in Lower Shabelle killed three soldiers and wounded three others. Reinforcements began to arrive however a vehicle roll-over in Wanla Weyn resulted in the deaths of six more government soldiers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 23, 2007
Fighting at Mogadishu docks killed two civilians, and injured six others along with three Ugandan peacekeepers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 25, 2007
At least 15 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a bus explosion in Mogadishu's northern district of Yaqshiid. The explosion occurred when the bus drove over an IED (improvised explosive device) or landmine while traveling to the Suuqa Holaha district in northern Mogadishu on Wednesday.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 25, 2007
An explosion in a central Somali town left four civilians dead and 15 wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 26, 2007
Two Somali soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in two separate bombings.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 27, 2007
Nine civilians and seven Ethiopian soldiers are killed in fighting in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 27, 2007
Fighting in Marka killed four government troops in an inter-governmental clash.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 28, 2007
Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in Mogadishu killing three and in other incidents across the city two more civilians were killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, October 31, 2007
Two pirates were killed off of Somalia's coast when they tried to attack a North Korean cargo vessel.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, November 1, 2007-November 6, 2007
In various reported clashes 5 Ethiopian and 1 TFG soldier and 5 civilians are killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, November 18, 2007
A landmine explosion and subsequent gun attack in Mogadishu killed 5 civilians and injured dozens.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, November 21, 2007
A governor's convoy was attacked in central Somalia killing 2 soldiers and wounding 2 others. The insurgents that set up the roadblock attack were able to get away from pursuing soldiers.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, November 26, 2007
Insurgents attack an Ethiopian army patrol in Mogadishu and two Ethiopians were killed along with two civilians in the 15 minute fire-fight, including one university student.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, November 29, 2007
Fighting in the capital killed 15 civilians and an undisclosed number of Ethiopian soldiers and insurgents.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 1, 2007
Two policemen and three civilians are killed in fighting in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 3, 2007
In Mogadishu a huge battle left 10 civilians dead and 15 wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 5, 2007
In Beltwein an ambush has left 2 soldiers and 1 insurgent dead.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 10, 2007
An attack on a police roadblock in the capital has left 2 civilians dead and wounded 5 others.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 11, 2007
Fighting between two sub-clans north of the capital have killed 10 people and wounded dozens.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 12, 2007
Three Somali soldiers and two civilians are killed in fighting in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 15, 2007
Insurgents took control of Ba'da village in central Somalia after killing one TFG soldier.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 17, 2007
In fighting in Mogadishu 2 civilians are killed. Twelve soldiers, including one Ethiopian, were wounded by a road-side bomb in Baidoa.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 19, 2007
At least three civilians are killed in fighting in Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 23, 2007
A running gun battle killed five civilians as stray mortar shells from both side struck civilian residential complexes in Northern Mogadishu.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 24, 2007
In Baidoa a regional judge was shot dead and in an attack on a police officer's home one soldier was killed and two soldiers and two young children were lightly wounded.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 27, 2007
In fighting in Mogadishu's notorious Bakara market one civilian is killed.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 29, 2007
Mohamed Muhiyadin Ali, spokesman for Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed Dheere, was killed in a road-side bombing in the capital.


2007 in Somalia, Timeline, December 31, 2007
A landmine explosion planted by insurgents in Southern Mogadishu has killed a TFG Colonel and his bodyguard.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement
Several nations and organizations are involved with the war in Somalia.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, African Union
The African Union has pledged troops to assist the TFG under the AMISOM peacekeeping mission.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, Ethiopia
Ethiopia forces actively assisted the TFG in ousting the ICU from its position of military control of Somalia. They have pledged to leave as rapidly as possible and does not appear to be coordinated with planned African Union troop arrivals.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, Ethiopia
Nobody knows for sure how many Ethiopian troops are stationed in Somalia, and nobody knows how many Somalis have been killed as a result of the Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia. Ethiopia opened an embassy in Mogadishu next to the presidential palace on May 27, 2007. According to Human Rights Watch, Ethiopian forces backing the Somali transitional government violated the laws of war by widely and indiscriminately bombarding highly populated areas of Mogadishu with rockets, mortars and artillery. Its troops on several occasions specifically targeted hospitals and looted them of desperately needed medical equipment. Human Rights Watch also documented cases of Ethiopian forces deliberately shooting and summarily executing civilians.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, Kenya
Kenya has sent forces to secure its border with Somalia and maybe a middle man between the TFG and former leaders of the ICU.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, United Nations
Since June 15, 2007 a UN mission in Somalia focused on the needs of the hundreds of the displaced Somalis. Deadly clashes have forced 490,00 Somalis to flee Mogadishu between February 2007 and May 2007.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, United States
The United States had assisted Somali, Ethiopian and Kenyan forces with intelligence, advisors and limited military strikes from bases in those countries and from Djibouti. They have offered money to support a peace keeping force. The involvement of the United States is part of their War on Terrorism and specifically Al-Qaeda.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, United States
On February 23, 2007, The New York Times reported that the US government has been secretly training Ethiopian soldiers, for several years, in camps near the Ethiopia-Somalia border. Many of these soldiers participated in the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. The Times quoted unnamed US government officials who said the training program and other support for Ethiopia's government began after a failed CIA effort to arm and finance Somali "warlords."


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, United States, US intervention against Al Qaeda
Somali Prime Minister Gedi declared one of the key objectives of the offensive on Kismayo was the capture of three alleged Al-Qaeda members, suspects wanted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa: Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Abu Taha al-Sudani.


2007 in Somalia, Foreign involvement, United States, US intervention against Al Qaeda
The United States Fifth Fleet's multinational maritime task force, Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150), based out of Bahrain is patrolling off the Somali coast to prevent terrorists launching an "attack or to transport personnel, weapons or other material," said Commander Kevin Aandahl. The announcement did not say what particular ships comprised the cordon, but the task force includes vessels from Canada, France, Germany, Pakistan, the UK and the US. US ships of CTF-150 include the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Ramage and the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Bunker Hill.


2007 in South Africa
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in South Africa.


2007 in South Africa, Incumbents, Cabinet
The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy President, forms part of the Executive.


2007 in South African television
This is a list of South African television related events from 2005.


2007 in South Korean football
This article shows the 2007 season of South Korean football.


2007 in South Korean music
The following is a list of notable events and releases that happened in 2007 in music in South Korea.


2007 in Spain, Arts and entertainment
In film, Solitary Fragments by Jaime Rosales won the Best film award at the Goya Awards. For a list of Spanish films released in 2007 see Spanish films of 2007.


2007 in Spain, Arts and entertainment
In music, D'Nash with I Love You Mi Vida were the Spanish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Violadores del Verso won the award for Best Spanish Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards.


2007 in Spanish television
This is a list of Spanish television related events from 2007.


2007 in Strikeforce
The year 2007 is the 2nd year in the history of Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 Strikeforce held 4 events beginning with, Strikeforce: Young Guns.


2007 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Young Guns
Strikeforce: Young Guns was an event held on February 10, 2007 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.


2007 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Baroni
Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Baroni was an event held on June 22, 2007 at the HP Pavilion at San Jose in San Jose, California.


2007 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Playboy Mansion
Strikeforce: Playboy Mansion was an event held on September 29, 2007 at The Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California.


2007 in Strikeforce, Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives
Strikeforce: Four Men Enter, One Man Survives was an event held on November 16, 2007 at the HP Pavilion at San Jose in San Jose, California.


2007 in Sudan
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Sudan.


2007 in Swedish football
The 2007 season in Swedish football, starting January 2007 and ending December 2007:


2007 in Swedish television
This is a list of Swedish television related events from 2007.


2007 in Syria
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Syria.


2007 in Taiwan
Events from the year 2007 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 96 according to the official Republic of China calendar.


2007 in Thailand
The year 2007 was the 226th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 62nd year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2550 in the Buddhist Era.


2007 in UFC
The year 2007 is the 15th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 the UFC held 19 events beginning with, UFC Fight Night: Evans vs. Salmon.


2007 in UFC, Debut UFC fighters
The following fighters fought their first UFC fight in 2007:


2007 in UFC, UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs. Guillard
UFC Fight Night: Stevenson vs. Guillard (also known as UFC Fight Night 9) was an event held on April 5, 2007, at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in Universal Reality Combat Championship
The year 2007 is the 6th year in the history of the Universal Reality Combat Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Philippines. In 2007 the URCC held 3 events beginning with, URCC 10: X.


2007 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC 10: X
URCC 10: X was an event held on June 30, 2007 at The Fort in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.


2007 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC Cebu 1
URCC Cebu 1 was an event held on September 1, 2007 at Royal Concourse Hall in Cebu, Philippines.


2007 in Universal Reality Combat Championship, URCC 11: Redemption
URCC 11: Redemption was an event held on November 25, 2007 at One Esplanade in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.


2007 in Vietnam
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Vietnam.


2007 in WEC
The year 2007 is the 7th year in the history of World Extreme Cagefighting, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 2007 WEC held 7 events beginning with, WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope.


2007 in WEC, WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope
WEC 25: McCullough vs. Cope was an event held on January 20, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio
WEC 26: Condit vs. Alessio was an event held on March 24, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 27: Marshall vs. McElfresh
WEC 27: Marshall vs. McElfresh was an event held on May 12, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar
WEC 28: Faber vs. Farrar was an event held on June 3, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson
WEC 29: Condit vs. Larson was an event held on August 5, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton
WEC 30: McCullough vs. Crunkilton was an event held on September 5, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in WEC, WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran
WEC 31: Faber vs. Curran was an event held on December 12, 2007 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2007 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 2007 to Wales and its people.


2007 in Yemen
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Yemen.


2007 in Zimbabwe
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Zimbabwe.


2007 in anime, Events
In this year, home video sales of anime DVDs in Japan were worth 89.4 billion yen.


2007 in anime, Accolades
At the Mainichi Film Awards, Summer Days with Coo won the Animation Film Award and A Country Doctor won the Ōfuji Noburō Award. Tekkon Kinkreet won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year; the other nominees were Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, Summer Days with Coo, Piano no Mori and Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure. Internationally, 5 Centimeters Per Second won the first ever Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film, with one of the other two nominees being Summer Days with Coo.


2007 in anime, Releases, Films
A list of anime that debuted in theaters between January 1 and December 31, 2007.


2007 in anime, Releases, Television series
A list of anime television series that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2007.


2007 in anime, Releases, Original video animations
A list of original video animations that debuted between January 1 and December 31, 2007.


2007 in architecture
The year 2007 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.


2007 in art
The year 2007 in art involved some significant events and new works.


2007 in association football
The following are the association football events of the year 2007 throughout the world.


2007 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 2007  throughout the world.


2007 in baseball, Champions, Major League Baseball
Click on any series score to link to that series' page. Higher seed had home field advantage during Division Series and League Championship Series. The American League champion has home field advantage during the World Series as a result of the AL victory in the All-Star Game.


2007 in baseball, Champions, Other champions
1 – The appearance by the Huskies of Rouen, France in the final marks the first time since 1976 that a team from outside the professional leagues of the Netherlands or Italy has finished in the top two.


2007 in baseball, Major league baseball final standings
†Denotes the club that won the wild card for its respective league. The Rockies defeated the Padres 9–8 (13) in a one-game playoff for the NL wild card.


2007 in baseball, Major league baseball final standings
The 90 wins by the Diamondbacks and Rockies were the fewest to lead the NL since 1959, with the exception of the strike-shortened seasons of 1981, 1994 and 1995. No NL team won or lost 95 games for the first time since 1983.


2007 in baseball, Major league baseball final standings
Also, this was the second consecutive season in which no team won at least 60% of its games, the first time that this has happened in Major League Baseball history.


2007 in basketball
The following are the basketball events of the year 2007  throughout the world.


2007 in basketball
Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.


2007 in basketball, Tournaments, Men's tournaments, Olympic qualifiers
Boldfaced entries qualify for the Olympics; italicized entries will participate in a wild-card competition.


2007 in bowls
Year 2007 in bowls also includes events in the autumn of 2006, since they belong to the same bowls season.


2007 in chess
Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2007:


2007 in comics
Notable events of 2007 in comics. See also List of years in comics.


2007 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 2007.


2007 in country music, Top hits of the year
The following songs placed within the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs or Canada Country charts in 2007:


2007 in country music, Top new album releases
The following albums placed within the Top 50 on the Top Country Albums charts in 2007:


2007 in cricket
The following is a list of important cricket related events which occurred in the year 2007.


2007 in darts
This is a list of some of the major events and competitions in the sport of darts in 2007.


2007 in darts, PDC, PDC Pro Tour events, UK Open Regional Finals
2006/2007 Finals – Best of 3 sets, Best of 3 legs per set


2007 in darts, PDC, Holsten Premier League
NB: LWAT = Legs Won Against Throw. Players separated by +/- leg difference if tied.


2007 in darts, BDO, WDF Category 1 Events
WDF ranking points awarded: Winner 150, Runner-up 100, Semi-Finalists 80, Quarter-Finalists 48, 9th to 16th place 24, 17th to 32nd place 12.


2007 in darts, BDO, WDF Category 2 Events
WDF ranking points awarded: Winner 120, Runner-up 80, Semi-Finalists 60, Quarter-Finalists 36, 9th to 16th place 18, 17th to 32nd place 9.


2007 in darts, Other events, Antwerp Open
PDC non-ranking event at the Waasland Expo Hallen April 14 Total Prize fund €22,560


2007 in darts, Other events, Open Holland
PDC non-ranking event at the Sport & Evanthal Margriet, Schiedam. April 29 Total Prize fund €15,000


2007 in darts, Other events, Thialf Open
PDC non-ranking event at the Thialf, Heerenveen. June 2 Total Prize fund €15,000


2007 in darts, Darts calendar
The events listed as BDO/PDC, in the Netherlands, involve invited players from the PDC who join players that qualify through the BDO rankings system. The Grand Slam of Darts in the UK is organised by the PDC, with players from both organisations invited on the basis of recent tournament results in either organisation. For full BDO and PDC calendars including non-televised events see external links.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
The Rock Band series of music video games supports downloadable songs for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii versions through the consoles' respective online services. Users can download songs on a track-by-track basis, with many of the tracks also offered as part of a "song pack" or complete album at a discounted rate. These packs are available for the Wii only on Rock Band 3. Most downloadable songs are playable within every game mode, including the Band World Tour career mode. All downloadable songs released before October 26, 2010 are cross-compatible between Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3, while those after only work with Rock Band 3. Certain songs deemed "suitable for all ages" by Harmonix are also available for use in Lego Rock Band.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
The Wii version of Rock Band does not support downloadable content, but Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 do, with DLC first made available in January 2009. Songs from the back catalogue of downloadable content were released for the Wii weekly in an effort by Harmonix to provide Wii players with every previously available song.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
Following the release of Rock Band 4 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, all previously purchased downloadable content for Rock Band 3 and earlier is forward compatible (with the exception of any downloadable content purchased for The Beatles: Rock Band) within the same system family at no additional cost.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series
32 downloadable Rock Band songs were released in 2007, 15 of which appeared alongside the launch of Rock Band on November 20, including song packs for Queens of the Stone Age, Metallica, and The Police.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2007
The following songs have been released for the Rock Band games in the year 2007. All songs available in packs are also available as individual song downloads on the same date, unless otherwise noted. Dates listed are the initial release of songs on Xbox Live.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2007
Some songs released before Rock Band 3 have been retrofitted to include Rock Band 3 features, including backing vocals, and the ability to buy an additional pack for Pro Guitar/Bass charts without having to buy the "RB3 Version" of the song. Certain songs have been marked "family friendly" by Harmonix; such songs released before Rock Band 3's launch on October 26, 2010 can be played in Lego Rock Band.


2007 in downloadable songs for the Rock Band series, List of songs released in 2007
Starting October 26 (with The Doors), all new songs are only playable in Rock Band 3, due to a change in the file format. All songs released via downloadable content are playable in Rock Band 3, and support its new Pro Drum mode. Most songs released for Rock Band 3 include core features for keyboards, Pro Keyboards, and backing vocals in the core song, where they are appropriate. Additionally, some of these songs features charts for Pro Guitar and Bass that can also be purchased.


2007 in esports
Team Final Boss  beat Team Carbon to win the MLG Las Vegas 2007 National Championship.


2007 in esports
The Championship Gaming Series began in 2007, with the 2007 Championship Gaming Series season


2007 in film
The following is an overview of events in 2007 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The highest-grossing film of the year was Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which was just ahead of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. 2007 is often considered one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century.


2007 in film, Evaluation of the year
Many have considered 2007 to be one of the greatest years for film in the 21st century.


2007 in film, Evaluation of the year
In his article from April 18, 2017, which highlighted the best movies of 2007, critic Mark Allison of Den of Geek said, "2007 must surely be remembered as one of the finest years in English-language film-making, quite possibly the best of this century so far. Like 1939, 1976, or 1994, it was one of those years in which a succession of veritable classics came into being. So many, in fact, that some of the best examples were cruelly overlooked by the hype machine of the day." He also emphasized, "If 2007 proves anything, it's that classic films aren't just a relic of ages past; they're being made all around us. I can't wait to see what we’re watching in another ten years’ time."


2007 in film, Evaluation of the year
Critic Craig Johnson from the film review and movie list website Taste of Cinema said in an article from December 16, 2014, "For one glorious year, it (2007) was like the 1970s all over again. Smart characters were using their brains as weapons. Movie stars were challenging themselves with tough roles. Punches were not pulled. Happy endings were not guaranteed. There was a parade of intelligent movies, seemingly made for adults to watch while the kids were watching Transformers".


2007 in film, Highest-grossing films
The top 10 films released in 2007 by worldwide gross are as follows:


2007 in film, 2007 films
The list of films released in 2007, arranged by country, are as follows:


2007 in games
This page lists board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 2007. For video games, see 2007 in video gaming.


2007 in go, Calendar
The following are the scheduled events of Go (board game) for the year 2007 throughout the world.


2007 in golf
This article summarizes the highlights of professional and amateur golf in the year 2007.


2007 in golf, Men's professional golf
For a complete list of PGA Tour results see PGA Tour.


2007 in golf, Men's professional golf
For a complete list of European Tour results see 2007 European Tour.


2007 in golf, Women's professional golf
Ladies European Tour major (in addition to the Women's British Open)


2007 in golf, Women's professional golf
For a complete list of Ladies European Tour results see Ladies European Tour.


2007 in golf, Women's professional golf
For a complete list of LPGA Tour results see LPGA Tour.


2007 in golf, Senior men's professional golf
Full list of 2007 Champions Tour results. Full list of 2007 European Seniors Tour results.


2007 in golf, World Golf Hall of Fame inductees
The following individuals were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on 12 November:


2007 in golf, Table of results
This table summarises all the results referred to above in date order.


2007 in golf, Table of results
The following biennial events will next be played in 2008: Ryder Cup, Curtis Cup, Espirito Santo Trophy.


2007 in hammer throw
This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2007 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 27, 2007. The women had their final three days later, on August 30, 2007.


2007 in heavy metal music
This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2007.


2007 in hip hop music
This article summarizes the events, album releases, and album release dates in hip hop music for the year 2007.


2007 in home video
2007 in home video is characterized by the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD raging.


2007 in ice hockey
The following is a chronicle of events during the year 2007 in ice hockey.


2007 in ice hockey, Women's hockey
Although the National Women's Hockey League and Western Women's Hockey League had nominally merged prior to the season, the Western squads did not face off against the Eastern teams, and no unified champion was declared.


2007 in ice hockey, Women's hockey
The Brampton Thunder defeated the Montreal Axion to win the NWHL championship, while the Calgary Oval X-Treme captured their third consecutive WWHL title, and fifth consecutive league championship overall.


2007 in ice hockey, Women's hockey
Following the season, the NWHL announced that the Eastern and Central divisions had suspended operations, leaving only the Western Division operational in 2007–08.


2007 in jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2007.


2007 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2007.


2007 in machinima
The following is a list of notable machinima-related events in 2007.


2007 in men's road cycling
2007 in men's road cycling is about the 2007 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI.


2007 in modern pentathlon
This article lists the main modern pentathlon events and their results for 2007.


2007 in motorsport
The following is an overview of the events of 2007 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.


2007 in motorsport, Annual events
The calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.


2007 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2007.


2007 in music, Top Hits on record
Singles which have ranked within Top 25 within the Billboard Hot 100 Hits


2007 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2007.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Prodiamesinae. The type species is C. arieli.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Pentaneurini. The type species is C. salomea.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Orthocladiinae. The type species is L. furcatus.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Prodiamesinae. The type species is L. deploegi.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Pentaneurini or Macropelopiini. The type species is L. cretacica.


2007 in paleontology, Arthropoda, New taxa
A member of the family Chironomidae belonging to the subfamily Tanypodinae and the tribe Anatopyniini. The type species is W. libanicus.


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Pseudosuchians
A new genus for "Crocodylus" robustus Grandidier & Vaillant (1872).


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
An Alethoalaornithidae Li, Hu, Duan, Gong et Hou, 2007, Enantiornithes Walker, 1981.


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
Described in Baptornithidae, Hesperornithiformes, transferred to Brodavis Martin, Kurochkin et Tokaryk, 2012, Brodavidae, Hesperornithiformes.


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
First described as ?Oligocorax sp. Mayr, 2001, than as ? Borvocarbo stoeffelensis Mayr, 2007. In 2014 Mayr transferred the species back as ?Oligocorax stoeffelensis (Mayr, 2007).


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus.


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
An Emberizidae Passeriformes. This is the type species of the new genus.


2007 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds
A stem Psittaciformes, Vastanavidae G. Mayr, Rana, Rose, Sahni, Kumar, Sing et T. Smith, 2010.


2007 in paleontology, Footnotes, Complete author list
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.


2007 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).


2007 in poetry, Works published in English
Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:


2007 in poetry, Works published in English, Australia, Australian anthologies
The Best Australian Poetry 2007 (ISBN 978-0-7022-3607-5), by series editors Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell; with 2007 guest editor John Tranter (University of Queensland Press), published work by these 40 poets:


2007 in poetry, Works published in English, New Zealand, Poets in Best New Zealand Poems
These poets wrote the 25 poems selected for Best New Zealand Poems 2006, published this year:


2007 in poetry, Works published in English, United States, Anthologies in the United States
These poets appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, with David Lehman, general editor, and Heather McHugh, guest editor (who selected the poetry) (Scribner ISBN 978-0-7432-9973-2):


2007 in poetry, Works published in other languages, India
In each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:


2007 in poetry, Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:


2007 in politics
These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2007.


2007 in professional wrestling
2007 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.


2007 in professional wrestling, Title changes, WWE
Raw and SmackDown each had a world championship, a secondary championship, and a tag team championship for male wrestlers. ECW only had a world championship. SmackDown also had a title for their cruiserweight wrestlers. There was only one women's championship and it was exclusive to Raw.


2007 in rail transport
This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 2007.


2007 in rugby league
This article contains information on rugby league played in 2007. The season commenced with the World Club Challenge and concluded with the New Zealand All Golds Tour in November.


2007 in rugby league, May
3 - Coffs Harbour, Australia: In the annual City vs Country Origin match City NSW defeat Country NSW 12–6 at BCU International Stadium before a crowd of just over 8,000.


2007 in rugby league, Test Matches, One off Tests, Trans-Tasman Test
By playing in this match, Australian three-quarter back Israel Folau became the youngest Kangaroos test player in history at 18 years and 194 days.


2007 in rugby league, Test Matches, Gillette Fusion All Golds' Centenary Tour
Three points for a try, as per inaugural Test in 1907.


2007 in rugby league, Domestic Competitions, Australia, National Rugby League
The 2007 NRL Season will run from 16 March 2007 to 30 September 2007, with the latter date hosting the Grand Final at Sydney's Telstra Stadium.


2007 in rugby league, Domestic Competitions, Europe, Super League XII
The Super League is the top club competition in Europe. In 2007 there are eleven English teams and one French team in the 2007 season, known as Super League XII


2007 in rugby league, Domestic Competitions, Europe, Carnegie Challenge Cup
The Rugby League Challenge Cup is the most prestigious knock-out competition in the world of Rugby League. It features teams from across Europe including England, Scotland, Wales, France and Russia.


2007 in rugby league, Domestic Competitions, Europe, Carnegie Challenge Cup
Catalans Dragons become the first non-English side to reach the final. They will play holders St. Helens at Wembley Stadium on 25 August.


2007 in rugby league, Domestic Competitions, Europe, UK National Leagues
The National Leagues kick off on 5 April. There are two divisions, and the top team in National One has the opportunity to enter SuperLeague, subject to minimum standards.


2007 in rugby union
Here are the match results of the 2010 Rugby union season. Qualifiers for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, meanwhile the Six Nations Championship and the Tri Nations was also set for another season.


2007 in science
The year 2007 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below.


2007 in spaceflight
The year 2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including a Chinese ASAT test, the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively, Japan's Kaguya Lunar orbiter, and the first Chinese Lunar probe, Chang'e 1.


2007 in spaceflight
The internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the Kármán line, 100 kilometres above sea level. The first recorded spaceflight launch of the year occurred on 10 January, when a PSLV, launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, placed four spacecraft into low Earth orbit. One of these spacecraft was SRE-1, which returned to Earth twelve days later, in the first Indian attempt to recover a satellite after re-entry.


2007 in spaceflight
Several carrier rockets made their maiden flights in 2007; the PSLV-CA, Long March 3B/E, Shavit-2, Zenit-2M, Proton-M Enhanced. These were all modernised or upgraded versions of existing systems. The RS-24 missile also conducted its first launch, and the Atlas V made its first flight in the 421 configuration. The first Colombian and Mauritian satellites, Libertad 1 and Rascom-QAF 1 respectively, were launched in 2007, although a helium leak reduced Rascom's operational lifetime by thirteen years.


2007 in spaceflight, Space exploration
Several spacecraft were launched to explore the Moon. Japan's Kaguya orbiter, along with the smaller Okina and Ouna relay spacecraft, was launched on 14 September. The spacecraft entered Selenocentric orbit on 3 October. China launched its first Lunar probe, Chang'e 1, on 24 October, with the spacecraft entering Selenocentric orbit on 5 November. In 2009, two satellites launched into highly elliptical Earth orbits in 2007 as part of the THEMIS mission were also sent to the Moon. They are expected to arrive in October 2010.


2007 in spaceflight, Space exploration
In August, the NASA Phoenix spacecraft was launched towards Mars, followed by the Dawn mission to the Asteroid belt in September. Cassini continued to make flybys of the moons of Saturn, mostly focussing on Titan. In November, Rosetta flew past Earth, where it was mistaken for an asteroid, and given the provisional designation 2007 VN84.


2007 in spaceflight, Crewed spaceflight
Five crewed flights were launched in 2007, two by Russia and three by the United States. Russia flew two Soyuz missions to the International Space Station for crew rotation. Soyuz TMA-10, launched on 7 April, carried the Expedition 15 crew to the Station. Space tourist Charles Simonyi was also launched on this flight, and landed aboard Soyuz TMA-9 a few days later. When TMA-10 returned to Earth in October, it made the first of two consecutive ballistic re-entries of Soyuz spacecraft, due to problems with separation bolts. Soyuz TMA-11, launched on 10 October, carried the Expedition 16 crew, and the first Malaysian in space, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, who was selected for flight under the Angkasawan programme. He landed aboard Soyuz TMA-10. When TMA-11 landed in 2008, it also made a ballistic descent.


2007 in spaceflight, Crewed spaceflight
2007 also saw the continued assembly of the International Space Station, by US Space Shuttle flights. On 8 June  Atlantis made the first Shuttle launch of the year, STS-117, with seven astronauts, and the S3/4 truss segment of the ISS. It was the first Shuttle to launch from Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center since STS-107 in 2003. Launch had previously been delayed from February due to Hail damage to the External Tank, which required a rollback to repair in the Vehicle Assembly Building. In August,  Endeavour launched on its first mission since 2002, STS-118.


2007 in spaceflight, Crewed spaceflight
This carried the S5 truss segment, and marked the final flight of the Spacehab module, which was used to carry supplies. NASA's first Educator Astronaut, Barbara Morgan flew aboard STS-118. Morgan had previously been a backup for Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Challenger accident in 1986. STS-120, launched on 23 October using  Discovery, carried the Harmony node, the first pressurised ISS component to be launched since Pirs in September 2001. Attempts to launch Atlantis in December on STS-122 were scrubbed, and the launch was delayed to 2008 after ECO sensors in the External Tank failed.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
Three orbital launch attempts in 2007, involving a Zenit, a Falcon 1, and a Proton failed, and two others, an Atlas V and a GSLV, resulted in partial failures. On 30 January, a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL exploded on the Ocean Odyssey launch platform, seconds after ignition. The failure destroyed the NSS-8 satellite, and caused considerable damage to the Odyssey platform. It was later determined that the failure had been caused by debris in the turbopump. As a result of downtime to conduct repairs, and bad sea conditions at the end of the year, Sea Launch did not conduct another launch until 2008.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
On 21 March, SpaceX launched the second Falcon 1. Due to the failure of the maiden flight, the launch was conducted as a demonstration flight without a functional payload. The launch failed to reach orbit due to a chain of events, starting with an error in setting the fuel mix ratio, which resulted in first stage underperformance, and the rocket being too low at the time of first stage separation. Additional atmospheric drag at this altitude caused recontact between the stages, setting up a fuel slosh in the second stage.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
This resulted in the premature cutoff of the second stage, and the rocket failed to reach orbit. This was the last launch of the Falcon 1 with the ablatively cooled Merlin-1A engine, which was replaced with the regeneratively cooled Merlin-1C for subsequent flights, starting in August 2008. As several test objectives were completed, SpaceX claimed that the launch was a success overall, and declared the Falcon 1 operational.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
The Atlas family ended a run of eighty consecutive successful launches over fourteen years, after a partial failure of an Atlas V launched on 15 June. A faulty valve caused a fuel leak in the Centaur upper stage, resulting in a premature cutoff at the end of its second burn. This resulted in the USA-194 satellites being delivered into a lower orbit than planned. The spacecraft were able to correct the orbit using their manoeuvring engines.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
The fifth GSLV was launched on 2 September, with the INSAT-4CR satellite. This was the first GSLV launch since the failure in July 2006. The rocket underperformed, and placed the satellite into an orbit with a lower apogee and greater inclination than planned. This required the spacecraft to use fuel reserved for stationkeeping to raise itself to the correct orbit, at the expense of its operational lifetime.


2007 in spaceflight, Launch failures
On 5 September, a Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage failed to place the JCSAT-11 into orbit, after the second stage of the carrier rocket failed to separate from the first. It was later established that damaged cabling had been the cause of the malfunction.


2007 in spaceflight, Summary of launches
In total, sixty eight orbital launches were made in 2007, with sixty five reaching orbit, and three outright failures. This was an increase of two orbital launch attempts on 2006, with one more launch reaching orbit. The final launch of the year was conducted on 25 December, by a Proton-M with three GLONASS navigation satellites for the Russian government.


2007 in spaceflight, Summary of launches
Suborbital spaceflight in 2007 saw a number of sounding rocket and missile launches. On 11 January, the Chinese People's Liberation Army used a Dong-Feng 21 derived anti-satellite weapon to destroy Feng Yun 1C, a retired weather satellite. Russia also began testing the RS-24 Yars missile


2007 in spaceflight, Summary of launches
China conducted ten orbital launches in 2007, using the Long March family of rockets, whilst Europe conducted five using the Ariane 5. India made three orbital launch attempts, using PSLV-C, PSLV-CA and GSLV rockets, with the GSLV launch resulting in a partial failure. Israel conducted a single successful launch using the first Shavit-2 rocket. Japan successfully launched two H-IIA rockets. Russia and the former Soviet Union conducted twenty six launches, including one failure, but not including the international Sea Launch programme, whose single launch attempt failed.


2007 in spaceflight, Summary of launches
Nineteen launches were conducted by the United States, which had originally announced plans to launch many more, however technical issues with the Atlas V, Delta IV and Falcon 1, caused a number of delays. Two of six planned Space Shuttle launches were also delayed to 2008, STS-123 due to knock-on delays from STS-117, and STS-122 due to problems with engine cutoff sensors.


2007 in speed skating
The year 2007 in speed skating also includes events in the autumn of 2006, since they belong to the same long track speed skating season.


2007 in speed skating, National championships
Championships need to have at least three participants to be mentioned here. Top three are mentioned for allround and sprint championships if the nation has at least three spots in the relevant international championship, otherwise only the winner is mentioned. If the championship had fewer than three participants, it is not mentioned.


2007 in speed skating, National championships
Christian Falger: 2 × 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 mStephan Bittner: 5000 m


2007 in speed skating, National championships
Anna Rokita: 2 × 500 m, 1000 m, 3000 m, 5000 m


2007 in speed skating, National championships
Denny Morrison: 2 × 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 mArne Dankers: 5000 m, 10000 m


2007 in speed skating, National championships
Shannon Rempel: 2 × 500 mCindy Klassen: 1000 m, 1500 mClara Hughes: 3000 m, 5000 m


2007 in sports
2007 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.


2007 in sports, Baseball
Seoul Shrubbery defeat the defend champions Singapore Sushi 1,300-1,212 to capture their first ever Periwinkle Feather.


2007 in sports, Mixed martial arts
The following is a list of major noteworthy MMA events during 2007 in chronological order.


2007 in sumo
The following are the events in professional sumo during 2007.


2007 in tennis
This page covers all the important events in the sport of tennis in 2007. Primarily, it provides the results of notable tournaments throughout the year on both the ATP and WTA Tours, the Davis Cup, and the Fed Cup.


2007 in tennis, ITF, Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is the Official Mixed Team Competition of the ITF, played at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, in Perth, Western Australia. 2007's was the 19th edition of the competition. This year Russia's pairing of Dmitry Tursunov and Nadia Petrova defeated Tommy Robredo and Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain in the Final.


2007 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The following lists events that happened during 2007 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


2007 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events
Glencore acquires 50% of SAMREF Congo SPRL in 2007, a Congolese-registered subsidiary of Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery (Samref Overseas S.A.), registered in Panama, that owns 80% of the Mutanda Mine. Global Witness raised concerns with this transaction and two others, saying that the secrecy that surrounded them raised questions about corruption.


2007 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, July
July 12 - Red Cross says thousands of displaced Tutsis in the militias' path.


2007 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Events, December
Copper production operations resume at Katanga Mining's Luilu Metallurgical Plant after an extensive restoration program.


2007 in the Netherlands
This article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2007.


2007 in the Netherlands, External ink
Media related to 2007 in the Netherlands at Wikimedia Commons


2007 in the Philippines
2007 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 2007.