2049

2049 (MMXLIX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

May

• May 7 – Transit of Mercury.

December

• December – The very earliest and possible response signal from the Gliese 581 vicinity, should there be one by intelligent extraterrestrial life, will be received. A signal was transmitted to the Gliese 581 vicinity in August 2009, taking about 20.3 years to reach its destination.
• December 20 – The present "One country, two systems" with Macau, guaranteed for 50 years starting from December 20, 1999 provided under the Basic Law, will expire.

Date unknown

• The 99-year lease in the Churchill–Roosevelt Destroyers for Bases Agreement, in which the United States traded 50 destroyers to the British Commonwealth in return for the right to use several British colonial possessions as bases, will expire, barring a renegotiation.

In fiction

• The races in San Francisco Rush 2049, the last arcade game from Atari Games, take place during this year. In-game advertisements about the races call it the "53rd Annual San Francisco Rush Tournament" (which set the races in the original San Francisco Rush in the year 1996—the year that the original game was released), and it is sponsored by "J. Ray and Associates" (a reference to the game's producer, John Ray).
• In the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 2049 sees the outbreak of The Nine Years' War, a conflict which devastates the entire planet and convinces world leaders to unite as a peaceful, but controversial, world society.
• The technology that allows a person to control a Custom Robo is developed by Ergo Corp., according to the Custom Robo series of video games.
• The events of the series IGPX take place.
• The Disney Channel movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century takes place in 2049, 50 years after the movie debuted on television in 1999.
• The video game Vectorman takes place in 2049
• The video game Miner 2049er takes place in 2049
• The video game M.A.C.H. takes place in 2049
• The video game When it's Over takes place in early 2049
• The video game Nier takes place in 2049
• The video game Crimson Tears is set in Tokyo in 2049

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