World Years

YearOrganisation founderHoliday typeDescription

2024 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Camelids

2022 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture

2021 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

2021 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

2021 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development

2021 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Peace and Trust

2021 Romanian Patriarchate The homage year of the pastoral care of Romanians outside Romania

2021 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative year of those asleep in the God; the liturgical and cultural value of cemeteries

2020 World Health Organization UN official International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

2020 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Plant Health

2020 Patriarchate of Antioch International Year of the Christian Family

2020 Romanian Patriarchate Solemn Year of Ministry to Parents and Children

2020 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of Romanian Orthodox Philanthropists

2019 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements

2019 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Moderation

2019 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Indigenous Languages

2019 Romanian Patriarchate Homage year of the Romanian village (of priests, teachers and household mayors)

2019 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of Patriarchs Nicodim Munteanu and Iustin Moisescu and Church Book Translators

2018 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of Unity of Faith and Nation

2018 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union Founders

2017 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development

2017 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the holy icons, of the iconographers and of the church painters

2017 Romanian Patriarchate The commemorative year of Justinian the Patriarch and the defenders of Orthodoxy during communism

2016 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Pulses

2016 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of Religious Education for Orthodox Youth

2016 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of the Holy Hierarch and Martyr Antim of Iveria and of all the printing houses of the Church in the Romanian Patriarchate

2015 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Soils

2015 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies

2015 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the Mission of Parish and Monastery Today

2015 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of Saint John Chrysostom and of the great spiritual shepherds in the eparchies

2014 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Family Farming

2014 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Crystallography

2014 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Small Island Developing States

2014 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

2014 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the Eucharist (of the Holy Confession and of the Holy Communion)

2014 Romanian Patriarchate Commemorative Year of the Martyr Saints of the Brancoveanu family

2013 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Quinoa

2013 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Water Cooperation

2013 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helena

2013 Romanian Patriarchate Dumitru Stăniloae commemorative year

2012 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Sustainable Energy for All

2012 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Cooperatives

2012 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of Holy Unction and of the care for the sick;

2011 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Forests

2011 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Chemistry

2011 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for People of African Descent

2011 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of Holy Baptism and Holy Matrimony

2010 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of the Seafarer

2010 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Biodiversity

2010 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures

2010-2011 United Nations Organisation 12.08.2010-11.08.2011 UN official International Year of Youth

2010 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the Orthodox Creed and of Romanian Autocephaly

2009 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO and UNEP UN official Year of the Gorilla

2009 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Astronomy

2009 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Human Rights Learning

2009 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Natural Fibres

2009 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Reconciliation

2009 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee-Commemorative year of Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia

2008 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of the Potato

2008 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Sanitation

2008 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Languages

2008 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Planet Earth

2008 Romanian Patriarchate The Jubilee Year of the Holy Scripture and the Holy Liturgy

2007-2008 World Meteorological Organisation UN official International Polar Year

2006 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Deserts and Desertification

2005 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Physics

2005 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for Sport and Physical Education

2005 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Microcredit

2004 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Rice

2004 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

2003 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Freshwater

2003 United Nations Organisation UN official Year of Kyrgyz Statehood

2002 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Ecotourism

2002 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Mountains

2002 United Nations Organisation UN official United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage

2001 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance

2001 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Volunteers

2001 United Nations Organisation UN official United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations

2000 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for the Culture of Peace

2000 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Thanksgiving

1999 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Older Persons

1998 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of the Ocean

1996 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for the Eradication of Poverty

1995 United Nations Organisation UN official World Year of Peoples’ Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War

1995 United Nations Organisation UN official United Nations Year for Tolerance

1994 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal

1994 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of the Family

1993 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for the World's Indigenous People

1992 United Nations Organisation UN official International Space Year

1990 United Nations Organisation UN official International Literacy Year

1987 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Shelter for The Homeless

1986 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Peace

1985 United Nations Organisation UN official International Youth Year: Participation, Development, Peace

1985 United Nations Organisation UN official Year of the United Nations

1983 United Nations Organisation UN official World Communications Year; Development of Communication Infrastructures

1982 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa

1981 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for Disabled Persons

1979 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year of The Child

1978-1979 United Nations Organisation UN official International Anti-Apartheid Year

1975 United Nations Organisation UN official International Women's Year

1974 United Nations Organisation UN official World Population Year

1971 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Prejudice

1970 United Nations Organisation UN official International Education Year

1968 United Nations Organisation UN official International Year for Human Rights

1967 United Nations Organisation UN official International Tourist Year

1965 United Nations Organisation UN official International Cooperation Year

1961 United Nations Organisation UN official International Health and Medical Research Year

1959-1960 United Nations Organisation UN official World Refugee Year

1957-1958 01.07.1957-31.12.1958 International Geophysical Year

1932-1933 World Meteorological Organisation UN official International Polar Year

1882-1883 Karl Weyprecht International Polar Year