2049

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2049 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar2049
MMXLIX
Ab urbe condita2802
Armenian calendar1498
ԹՎ ՌՆՂԸ
Assyrian calendar6799
Bahá'í calendar205–206
Bengali calendar1456
Berber calendar2999
British Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar2593
Burmese calendar1411
Byzantine calendar7557–7558
Chinese calendar戊辰(Earth Dragon)
4745 or 4685
     to 
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4746 or 4686
Coptic calendar1765–1766
Discordian calendar3215
Ethiopian calendar2041–2042
Hebrew calendar5809–5810
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2105–2106
 - Shaka Samvat1971–1972
 - Kali Yuga5150–5151
Holocene calendar12049
Igbo calendar1049–1050
Iranian calendar1427–1428
Islamic calendar1471–1472
Japanese calendarHeisei 61
(平成61年)
Juche calendar138
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4382
Minguo calendarROC 138
民國138年
Thai solar calendar2592
Unix time2493072000–2524607999

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

Predicted and scheduled events

May

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 ChurchillRoosevelt 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 and given the military naval presence and appearance of a full moon suggest this is during Fleet Week 2049 hence on or about the tenth of October. 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
  • The 2005 film The Island is set in 2049

References

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