In one decade, it has established itself as a major event on the world cultural calendar.
In 2007, Bernie Ecclestone decided that the city-state would be added to the illustrious Formula One World Championship calendar.
The snow (or "Champagne powder, " as the locals boast) is so reliable that each season, the first event of the World Cup skiing calendar is held at Lake Louise.
The three-day event is golf's biggest tournament and the third largest event on the world's sporting calendar.
Neither made allowances in their calendar for the World Cup, which started slightly earlier this time in a failed attempt to defeat Asia's rainy season.
From left to right, the Visors are displaying a calendar, calculator, world time and a photo.
This is the autumn height of the sports calendar, with the World Series in play along with the NFL and college football and a new basketball season.
The HP DreamScreen also helps people prepare for and organize their day with access to five-day weather forecasts for cities around the world and a view of their calendar.
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More disturbing, a recent Reuters survey shows 1 out of 10 people around the world believe the end of the Mayan calendar could mean the end.
This is the maker of the premier global luxury car trading at prices that would suggest the Mayan calendar was correct about the world ending in 2012.
And all this talk about the Mayan calendar and the end of the world?
The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said its world motor sport council had confirmed a 17-race calendar after meeting in Barcelona.
The sport's governing body, the FIA, published the draft calendar on Wednesday after a meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in Paris.
Since its launch in 1987, the fund, which is now the biggest bond fund in the world, has never posted a net outflow for a calendar year, based on data compiled by Lipper.
The Japanese maker of the Prius hybrid, Camry sedan and Lexus luxury cars rose once again to the world's top automaker in global vehicle sales last calendar year, overtaking U.S. rival General Motors Co.
Galli blocked off his calendar for the first three months to travel the world and meet every manager he could.
Tiger Woods is clearly the best golfer in the world again: He has won six tournaments in the last calendar year and he recently regained his number one ranking after a two-and-a-half year absence.
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Moments after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially canceled Sunday's New York City Marathon, hysteria hit the running world: Hundreds of suddenly stranded runners began searching the racing calendar for new options, and other marathons were more than happy to adopt the vagabonds.
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Are doomsday scenarios like those being spun around the Maya calendar mere entertainment or a dangerous distraction from real-world problems?
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Some wonder whether the industry's calendar of seasonal shows in several different cities round the world may itself go out of fashion.
Microsoft's rejection of skeuomorphism - the idea that applications need to look like their real-world equivalents - distinguishes it from Apple's OS X whose calendar app features a leather-skinned interface with ripped paper to hint at earlier entries.
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The 2013 calendar sees the circuit return to Poland -- home of world No. 4 Agnieszka Radwanska -- for the first time since 2010.
They're gathering for the annual World Economic Forum, an event that has become a highlight in the business calendar.
One of the most important dates in the Hindu religious calendar, the festival attracts millions of participants from India and around the world, who bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati Rivers to cleanse their sins.
Across the other side of the world, India is preparing for Diwali, the last and biggest festival on the Hindu calendar.
The Ghanaian domestic calendar has already been stalled by several legal disputes, so much so that world football's governing Fifa has already warned the GFA to streamline its laws to prevent disputes from going to the ordinary courts or face sanctions.
This has been true over the past five years taken together (when the Morgan Stanley World Index has averaged an 18.3% annual return) and also in every calendar year except 2005, when the return was shy of its historical (post-1926) performance by a whisker.
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