2042

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s 2020s 2030s – 2040s – 2050s 2060s 2070s
Years:	2039 2040 2041 – 2042 – 2043 2044 2045

2042 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	2042 MMXLII
Ab urbe condita	2795
Armenian calendar	1491 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6792
Bahá'í calendar	198–199
Bengali calendar	1449
Berber calendar	2992
British Regnal year	90 Eliz. 2 – 91 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2586
Burmese calendar	1404
Byzantine calendar	7550–7551
Chinese calendar	辛酉年十二月初十日 (4678/4738-12-10) — to — 壬戌年十一月二十日 (4679/4739-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1758–1759
Ethiopian calendar	2034–2035
Hebrew calendar	5802–5803
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2098–2099
- Shaka Samvat	1964–1965
- Kali Yuga	5143–5144
Holocene calendar	12042
Iranian calendar	1420–1421
Islamic calendar	1464–1465
Japanese calendar	Heisei 54 (平成54年)
Korean calendar	4375
Minguo calendar	ROC 131 民國131年
Thai solar calendar	2585
Unix time	2272147200–2303683199

2042 (MMXLII) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

April 30 – The Nickelodeon time capsule will be dug up.
September 17 – A common computing representation of date and time on IBM mainframe systems will overflow with potential results similar to the year 2000 problem.

Date unknown

According to the United States Census Bureau, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American will collectively outnumber Whites of non-Hispanic origin.^[1]

In fiction

On the ABC series Defying Gravity, the mission to Mars took place in this year, ten years before the Antares Mission in 2052.
The Japanese version of Snatcher, a graphic adventure game originally released in 1988, is set in December 2042. The English localization of Snatcher moved the setting to 2047.
Paul Levinson's The Plot to Save Socrates starts in 2042, from which the novel's time traveling characters embark on what the title says.

References

^ Jennifer M. Ortman; Christine E. Guarneri, United States Population Projections: 2000 to 2050, http://www.census.gov/population/www/projections/analytical-document09.pdf .