| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1990s 2000s 2010s – 2020s – 2030s 2040s 2050s |
| Years: | 2018 2019 2020 – 2021 – 2022 2023 2024 |
| 2021 by topic: |
| News by month |
| Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Art – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television |
| Politics |
| Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – National Rugby League |
| By place |
| Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – China – Denmark – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Ireland – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – Sri Lanka – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe |
| Other topics |
| Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works – Introductions |
| Gregorian calendar | 2021 MMXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2774 |
| Armenian calendar | 1470 ԹՎ ՌՆՀ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 177 – 178 |
| Berber calendar | 2971 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2565 |
| Burmese calendar | 1383 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7529 – 7530 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚子年十一月十八日 (4657/4717-11-18) — to —
辛丑年十一月廿八日(4658/4718-11-28) |
| Coptic calendar | 1737 – 1738 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2013 – 2014 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5781 – 5782 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2076 – 2077 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1943 – 1944 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5122 – 5123 |
| Holocene calendar | 12021 |
| Iranian calendar | 1399 – 1400 |
| Islamic calendar | 1442 – 1443 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 33 (平成33年) |
| Korean calendar | 4354 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2564 |
| Unix time | 1609459200 – 1640995199 |
2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents |
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 20 – A President of the United States will be inaugurated.
- May 11 – Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.[1]
- December 31 – Analog television will be switched off in Mexico.[2]
Unknown dates
- Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
- CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
- Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias.[3]
- CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970–1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
- Intel scientists predict that the shrinking of microchips roughly every 18 months (Moore's Law) will reach a fundamental limit by 2021. The Semiconductor industry won't be able to shrink transistors much, if at all, beyond the 16 nanometer technology process.[4]
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Shadowrun: On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
- Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2: (2008)
Film
- Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Click (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.
- Resiklo {2007}
Literature
- In the Terminator novel "New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures", Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
- Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.
- Set in 2021:
- The Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)
Television
- Cowboy Bebop (1999–2000) "The Gate Accident" occurs.[5]
- Sealab 2021 (2000–2005)
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008–Present)
References
- ^ Elections BC
- ^ Transicion a TDT (Transition to DT) (Spanish)
- ^ National Geographic, February 2008
- ^ "Moore". http://news.cnet.com/Intel-scientists-find-wall-for-Moores-Law/2100-1008_3-5112061.html.
- ^ http://animedubs.com/anime/cowboy_bebop/
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