2070s

The 2070s decade will begin on January 1, 2070 and will end on December 31, 2079.

Notable predictions and known events

2070

• February – The Teen Age Message, an Active SETI message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar, arrives at its destination, the star HD 197076.

2073

• September 12: Assuming no further changes to United States copyright law, all music by Johnny Cash will enter the public domain.

2074

• The Green Wall of China is scheduled to be completed.

2075

• The ozone layer is expected to have fully recovered.^[1]

2076

• c. May 31: the planetoid 90377 Sedna is expected to reach its perihelion, its closest point to the Sun. It is expected to reach a distance of 76 AU, or 76 times the average distance Earth is from the Sun. Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, thus it is difficult to locate —at its aphelion, it reaches a distance of about 942 AU. This date is subject to adjustment as Sedna's orbit is still being refined.
• December 25: Assuming no further changes to United States copyright law, all music by James Brown will enter the public domain.

2077

• Beginning of the 16th century AH according to the Islamic Hijri calendar.

2079

• May 1: A total solar eclipse is predicted for New York City, as well as Nova Scotia in Canada.^[2]
• June 6: The smalldatetime fields in SQL-Server databases will wrap around to January 1, 1900.
• June 25: Assuming no further changes to United States copyright law, all music and works by Michael Jackson will enter the public domain.
• August 11: Mercury occults Mars for the first time since 578. It is difficult to observe, but the best observable occultation of a planet by another in the 21st century.

Biblical references

• Bede computed that the world would end in 2076, extrapolating from Biblical references and the year of Jesus' birth.^[3]

Fictional references

• The 2011 computer game Anno 2070 takes place in the year 2070, predicting that the sea level raised dangerously.
• In the Trinity role-playing game, 2070 marked the end of The Great Crash-a period of history that began in the year 2061. During this crash, millions of people died, half the world's arable land became infertile, the world's financial and ecological resources became drained, and the world economy collapsed. Conflict erupts after 2070 between nations, the Comm crunch hits, and the Urban schism occurs. Orbital expansion is attempted to revitalize the world.
• The 4th Edition of Shadowrun takes place in the 2070s.
• The 1967 Doctor Who story The Moonbase is set in 2070 on the Moon.
• In Judge Dredd (in the comic 2000 AD) 2070 was the year President Robert L. Booth started the Atomic Wars. Booth, last president of the United States, was deposed. The following year the Battle of Armageddon took place, leading to the defeat of Booth's forces.^[4]
• The events that set the novel Ender's Game into motion take place in 2070.
• The animated film Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip has some scenes that take place in 2070.
• The events of the anime series Cowboy Bebop take place in 2071. The events of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie take place during Halloween of that year.
• The Evil Dexter clone from Dexter's Laboratory as mentioned in the episode "Over Labbing" will destroy Dexter in 2072.
• The film Equilibrium takes place in 2072.^{[citation needed]}
• The film Ultraviolet takes place in 2072.
• The Nickleodeon cartoon series My Life as a Teenage Robot takes place in 2072. This is determined when title character Jenny reveals she was activated five years previously, prompting her friend Brad to ask if that meant she did not remember Super Bowl 100.
• The events of the computer game System Shock begin on November 6, 2072.
• The events of the video game Deus Ex: Invisible War take place in 2072.
• Messenger (novel) by Lois Lowry is set to take place in 2073.
• The novel Rash by Pete Hautman takes place in the year 2074.
• The film Cyborg 2 starring Angelina Jolie is set in 2074.
• The Sega Saturn video game Gun Griffon: The Eurasian Conflict takes place in the year 2074.
• The game Red Faction is set in the year 2075 in Mars.
• The back-story to Antihero for Hire lists 2075 as the year Canada invaded the United States with an army of genetically modified dinosaurs.
• The manga and anime series Planetes takes place in the year 2075.
• The 1970s cartoon, Jabberjaw, is set in an underwater civilization in 2076.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076; much of the book takes place in 2076.
• Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma! is set in the year 2076. Its sequel SPARK is set in the following year.
• The game Forsaken takes place in 2077.
• In Command & Conquer Saga in 2077 has been started the Fourth Tiberium War.
• Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama begins with an asteroid striking Italy at 0946 GMT on September 11, 2077 - destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.
• In the Fallout series of video games, the bulk of the Sino-American war takes place in the 2070s, and its climax, the Great War that starts the Apocalypse, two hours of nuclear war that led to the devastation of Earth, takes place on October 23, 2077.
• Screamers is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film released in 1995 and set 83 years later in 2078.
• In commercials for the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 9 was said to be released in 2078.
• Judge Dredd graduates from the Academy of Law in 2079.
• In the "Star Trek" universe, the maiden voyage for the crew of the USS Enterprise-D has them placed on (a re-vamped) trial in a Post-Atomic holocaust court; c. 2079. Extradimensional aliens, from the "Q" Continuum, charge them-and all humanity-for crimes of violence throughout Earth history in the TNG episode "Encounter at Farpoint, part one."
• In a Mad episode, on a skit of Dear Reaper, it is occurred to the Grim Reaper that Joey, the boy who sent the Reaper a letter asking what to buy for Joey's parents' anniversary, will die on November 14, 2071.

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