Previous International Years

2021 - International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development

2019 - International Year of Indigenous Languages

2019 - The International Year of the Periodic Table

2017 - International Year of Sustainable Tourism

2015 - International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies

2014 - International Year of Crystallography

2014 - International Year of Small Island Developing States

2014 - International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

2013 - Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013

2013 - International Year of Water Cooperation

2010 - International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures

2010 - International Year of Biodiversity

2009 - International Year of Astronomy

2009 - Year of the Gorilla

2008 - International Year of Planet Earth

2008 - International Year of Languages

2005 - International Year for Sport and Physical Education

2004 - International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition

2002 - United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage