2080s

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2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium

Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	2050s 2060s 2070s - 2080s - 2090s 2100s 2110s

Contents 1 The decade as a whole 2 Notable predictions and known events 2.1 2080 2.2 2081 2.3 2084 2.4 2085 2.5 2086 2.6 2088 2.7 2089 3 Fictional references

[edit] The decade as a whole

This decade is expected to be called the "eighties", the "80s", or the "twenty eighties5".

[edit] Notable predictions and known events

[edit] 2080

• 100th anniversary of Independence of South Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), last British Mainland territory of the British Empire in Africa.

• 100th Anniversary of the death of John Lennon.

[edit] 2081

• 100th Anniversary of Independence of British Honduras (Belize) from the British Empire, the last Mainland territory.

[edit] 2084

• Late March/early April - WWE WrestleMania 100 will take place.
• October 26, 2084 - Lease held by the Pitjantjatjara on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.
• November 10, 2084 - Transit of Earth as seen from Mars.

[edit] 2085

• December 31, 2085 - The last day of Sega Dreamcast clock that loops to January 1, 1950.

[edit] 2086

• 100th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
• 100th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.
• 200th anniversary of formation of Arsenal Football Club.

[edit] 2088

• The 300th anniversary of European colonisation in Australia.

[edit] 2089

• 200th anniversary of formation of Video Game Company Nintendo.

[edit] Fictional references

• Philip Kindred Dick's The Crack in Space is set on an overpopulated future Earth in 2080
• 2081: The year in which "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut takes place.
• the XGRA: Extreme-G Racing Association global season tournament is supposed to take place
• According to the storyline of the 1982 video arcade game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.
• In the X-COM Storyline, the Fourth Alien War (AW-IV) starts in 2084.
• Many of the storylines contained within Ayreon albums take place in the year 2084, or reference toward it.
• Second American Civil War (2083 to 2086) in Judge Dredd
• The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Thunderbirds 2086 are both set in this year, 100 years after their 1986 premieres.
• Claire Fisher, fictional artist in the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, dies in 2085 in Manhattan. She is 101 years old.
• According to the videogame Warzone 2100, in 2085 defensive sattelite systems will nuke all the major cities in the world, starting the collapse.
• The events described by a fictional version of Evel Knievel in the Midnight Brown song 2084. Including things like the TV series "Dog Monkey vs. Monkey Dog" and streets made of syrup.
• The Sci-Fi film Total Recall is set in 2084.
• A TV series called The Secret Show takes place in 2082.
• The Doctor Who story Warriors of the Deep takes place in 2084.
• The movie The Adventures of Pluto Nash takes place in 2087.
• A war in Ayreon's universe is set in 2084, essentially wiping out all mankind and creating a new soul, the new Universal Migrator.