2020
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| Gregorian calendar | 2020 MMXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2773 |
| Armenian calendar | 1469 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 4656/4716-12-7 (己亥年十二月初七日) — to —
4657/4717-11-17(庚子年十一月十七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2012 – 2013 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5780 – 5781 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2075 – 2076 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1942 – 1943 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5121 – 5122 |
| Iranian calendar | 1398 – 1399 |
| Islamic calendar | 1442 – 1443 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 32 (平成32年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2680 (皇紀2680年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 12020 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2563 |
2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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[edit] Scheduled events
March
- Yahoo! Inc.'s 25th birthday; opening of the Yahoo! Time Capsule.
June
July
- July 16 Time capsule of Shelby, Iowa will be opened.
October
- Halloween, on a Full Moon
November
- 3 - Presidential election and 117th Congressional election in the United States
[edit] Confirmed but unscheduled events
The following events will happen in 2020 but they haven't been scheduled yet.
- XXXII summer Olympic Games to be held (bidding cities: Milan (Italy), New York City (U.S.), Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland), Melbourne (Australia), and Berlin (Germany))
- Last nuclear power plant in Germany to be shut down
- Schapelle Corby to be released from prison for drug trafficking in Indonesia
- Former U.S. Major League Baseball players to become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Willie McGee, Jim Abbott, Darryl Strawberry, Jack McDowell, Chili Davis, Tom Candiotti, Jeff Montgomery, Tony Phillips, Terry Steinbach, Mark Langston, and Otis Nixon.
[edit] Predicted or expected events
The following events are predicted or expected to happen in 2020.
General predicitions
- British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020 [1].
- Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project was published in December 2004 with a long-term view of the future. The NIC is the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the US Government.
Space
- According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by 2020.
- NASA plans to launch a manned mission to Mars by 2020.
- The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly beyond Pluto and Charon to the Kuiper Belt Objects.
Military
- Future Force Warrior to be phased into United States armed forces.
Politics
- Predicted proclamation of Malaysia as a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
- India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed, powerful, and influential nation-state is expected to be fulfilled.
- People's Republic of China intends to take back Taiwan under Chinese rule at latest by 2020. The country is also predicted to become the world's largest economy by this time.
Construction
- Completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in the People's Republic of China.
- Completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China.
- Completion of the construction of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
- Completion of the urban revitalization of downtown Lisbon, Portugal.
[edit] 2020 in fiction
[edit] Comics
- Comics set in 2020:
- 2020 Visions (1997-1998)
- Iron Man 2020
[edit] Computer and video games
- Games set in 2020:
- Perfect Dark Zero (2005)
- Super Baseball 2020 (1991)
- TimeSplitters (2000) (the Planet X mission)
- Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006)
[edit] Films
- Films set in 2020:
- Roujin Z (1991)
- Mission to Mars (2000)
[edit] Television
- Television programs set in 2020:
- Knights of God (1987)
- Sealab 2020 (1972)
- Terrahawks (1983-1984)
- Supervolcano (2005)
[edit] See also
| Preceded by 2019 |
Years 2020 |
Succeeded by 2021 |
