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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

February

• February 1 — Super Bowl XLIX

March

• March 20 — Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

July

• July 1 — Earth, Venus and Jupiter will be ordered on a single line.
• July 14 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.

August

• August 9 - Singapore will be having its 50 years of independence.

September

• September 9 — On this date, if Queen Elizabeth II is still queen, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
• September 13 — Partial solar eclipse.
• September 21 — International Day of Peace (United Nations)

December

• December 31 — Millennium Development Goals are targeted for achievement
• December 31 — Microcredit Summit Campaign goals are targeted for achievement

Unknown dates

• China is expected to overtake Japan as the 2nd largest economy in the world.
• The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
• Crossrail in London, United Kingdom's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
• The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC.
• The rolling stock of the Tyne and Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system — possibly incorporating street-running trams.
• Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year. ^{[citation needed]}
• Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
• DARPA wishes to have one-third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
• The Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
• Analog television is scheduled to be switched off in the Philippines.
• Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
• Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in Australia and New Zealand

Anniversaries

• May 7 — 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
• April 9 - 150th anniversary of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia to the Ulysses S. Grant and his Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Virginia marking the end of the American Civil War.
• April 25 - 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landings by ANZAC forces during World War One.
• June 1 — Florida International University will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
• June 18 - 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo

2015 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
• Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.

Film

• Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the film Back to the Future Part II.

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The mysterious entities known as Angels reappear on Earth after a 15-year absence, and begin attacking the city of Tokyo-3 in sequence. The military forces of the UN and the Japanese government prove insufficient to repel the creatures, and authority in the campaign against the Angels is delegated to NERV, an international special defense agency created specifically for this purpose. Gendo Ikari, president of the Tokyo-3 headquarters of NERV, helms the operation, under supervision from the UN's top-secret SEELE committee. Using giant biomechanical organisms known as the Evangelions, NERV closely manages to kill the incoming Angels, one after the other.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
• Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"

Media franchises

• .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

Others

• John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that the World War III would begin on this year on his world line.

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