2015 a Zonal Year

At the beginning of the previous World Championship cycle (C26 according to my system of numbering the cycles), it was useful to put together a list of forthcoming FIDE qualifying events and related activities -- see 2013 a Zonal Year. For the current cycle, C27, the following table is taken from the FIDE Calendar 2015, plus events completed in 2014. For the history of previous cycles, C00-C26, see World Chess Championship Zonals.

C27:
1.0	European Individual Championship 2015	Jerusalem, Israel	23-Feb-2015
2.0	American Continental Championship 2015	Montevideo, Uruguay	15-May-2015
2.2	American Zonal	Canada	9-Jul-2015
2.3	American Zonal	Guayaquil, Ecuador
3.0	Asian Continental Championships 2015	Al Ain, UAE	20-Jun-2015
3.1	Asian Zonal	Muscat, Oman
3.2	Asian Zonal	Kathmandu, Nepal
3.3	Asian Zonal	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	6-Mar-2015
3.4	Asian Zonal	Dushanbe, Tajikistan	3-Jun-2015
3.5	Asian Zonal	China
3.6	Asian Zonal	Sydney, Australia	4-Jul-2015
4.3	African Zonal	Malawi	13-Apr-2015
>>	World Cup 2015	Baku, Azerbaijan	10-Sep-2015
FIDE:
	1st Quarter 2015 Presidential Board	Chengdu, China	26-Apr-2015
	86th FIDE Congress	Abu Dhabi, UAE	1-Sep-2015
Other (2014):
1.?	Baltic Zonal	(A)
1.10	European Small Nations Chp	(B)
3.5	China Zonal	TWIC1044
4.2	African Zonal	TWIC1047

(A) FIDE President Opens the Baltic Zonal Chess Tournament in Liepaja (chessdom.com; June 2014): 'In Liepaja the first of the three stages of the Baltic Zonal Tournament takes place; the second will be held in September in Lithuania, and the third – in January in Estonia. The winner of the three stages in aggregate will be admitted to the World Cup tournament in 2015.'

The Week in Chess (TWIC):-
TWIC1022, Jun 2014, Liepaja
TWIC1047, Nov 2014, Vilnius
TWIC1054, Jan 2015, Tallinn

(B) 1st Individual FIDE Zone 1.10 Championship (chessdom.com; January 2014; follow links for the tournament bulletin): 'The winner of the Zone Championship will be one of FIDE president nominations for FIDE World Cup 2015.'