Recurring events established in 1997

cultural event in which museums and cultural institutions in an area cooperate to remain open late into the night

thumb|A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013. RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, Itsuki Noda and Minoru Asada). The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI research by offering a publicly appealing – but formidable – challenge.

professional wrestling pay-per-view event

technology conference organized by Intel

Annual LGBT event in Sao Paulo, Brazil

thumb|KDE's mascot Konqi and Akademy. Akademy (capitalized as aKademy before 2009) is an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community. Akademy is held at varying venues in Europe.

international art fair dedicated to photography in Paris, France

annual adult entertainment fair

world Championship Wrestling pay-per-view series

thumb|right|The logo of Protmušis. Protmušis () is a team pub quiz-type game that takes place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The organisers and participants of Protmušis are mainly students from various universities in Vilnius. All major universities of Vilnius are represented in Protmušis (including all the faculties of Vilnius University, some faculties of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, ISM University of Management and Economics and the Vilnius Pedagogical University) as well as the Kaunas University of Technology and Vytautas Magnus

annual event to raise awareness of threatened bat populations in Europe

holiday in Singapore (21 July), commemorating the Race Riots on 21 July 1964

large outdoor science-popularization event organized jointly by Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw

1997 UK treasury tests

film festival in Yaoundé, Cameroon

LAN party

Anime fan convention

Festival of the people of Kpalime

yearly Catholic youth meeting

music festival

Anthrocon (abbreviated AC) is an annual furry convention that takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, each June or July. It caters to furries, which are fans of fictional anthropomorphic animal characters in art and literature. The convention was first held in 1997 in Albany, New York, and moved multiple times before settling at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Since moving to Pittsburgh in 2006, the convention has drawn millions in financing to the local economy.

Mexican charity telethon

organization

fashion industry event in Ukraine

beauty contest