2018
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| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s 1990s 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 2030s 2040s |
| Years: | 2015 2016 2017 – 2018 – 2019 2020 2021 |
| 2018 by topic: |
| News by month |
| Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming |
| Politics |
| Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league |
| By place |
| Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Costa Rica – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States |
| Other topics |
| Awards – Law – Religious leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
| Gregorian calendar | 2018 MMXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2771 |
| Armenian calendar | 1467 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6768 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 174–175 |
| Bengali calendar | 1425 |
| Berber calendar | 2968 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2562 |
| Burmese calendar | 1380 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7526–7527 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655 |
| Coptic calendar | 1734–1735 |
| Discordian calendar | 3184 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2010–2011 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5778–5779 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2074–2075 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1940–1941 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5119–5120 |
| Holocene calendar | 12018 |
| Igbo calendar | 1018–1019 |
| Iranian calendar | 1396–1397 |
| Islamic calendar | 1439–1440 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 30 (平成３０年) |
| Juche calendar | 107 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4351 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 107 民國107年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2561 |
| Unix time | 1514764800–1546300799 |
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2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
February
- February 9 – 25 – 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
March
- March 9 – 18 – The 2018 Winter Paralympics will be hosted in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
April
- April 4 – April 15 – 2018 Commonwealth Games scheduled to be hosted in Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia.
June
- June 8 – July 8 – 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia.
July
- July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
Date unknown
- The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.[1]
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched no earlier than 2018. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.
- The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
- Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to start funding the construction of the first elevator by 2031.[2]
- Aurora Programme Aerocapture and soft landing technology demonstrator for Mars.
- The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
- Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line
- The Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii will be completed.[3]
- Launch of the Mars sample return mission.
- NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.
- Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.[4]
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Krazy Ivan[5] (1996)
- Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)
- Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (starts in 2018 and ends in early 2019) (2007)
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2013)
Film
- Rollerball (1975)
- Terminator Salvation (2009)
- I Spit on Your Rave (2010)
- Iron Sky (2012)
Literature
- Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.
- The final book of The Power of Five series, Oblivion, takes place in 2018.
Television series
- The storyline for the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.
- The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018. However, since Code Geass uses an alternate history calendar system, the year 2018 of its continuity is chronologically equivalent to 1963 AD.
- The episode of Doctor Who The Enemy of the World takes place in 2018.
References
- ↑ http://www.neurope.eu/article/us-missile-defence-shield-be-poland-2018
- ↑ Boyle, A: "Cosmic Log" MSNBC, 10 October 2006
- ↑ Waugh, Rob. "The new space race: China and India to create world's biggest telescope". Daily Mail (London).
- ↑ http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/state-archives-to-stay-classified-for-20-more-years-pm-instructs-1.304449
- ↑ http://pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p10046.htm
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