2018
| 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: |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming |
| Politics |
| Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league |
| By place |
| Afghanistan – Algeria – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia –Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States - Vietnam |
| 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 (dominical letter G) 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 is scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1]
June
- June 14 – July 15 – 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.[2]
July
- July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.[3]
October
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.[4]
- The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.[5]
Date unknown
- Estimated completion date for the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometer in height.[6]
- NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.[7]
- Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.[8]
- The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.[9]
- 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.[10]
- Aurora Programme Exploration of the Martian geological environment.[11]
- The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.[12]
- Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line.[13]
- Launch of the Mars sample return mission.[14]
- NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.[15]
- Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.[16]
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Krazy Ivan[17] (1996)
- Empire Earth (2001) (the Russian campaign starts in 2018)
- 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.
- Oblivion (2012) by Anthony Horowitz, the final book of The Power of Five series.
Television series
- The episode of Doctor Who The Enemy of the World (1967) takes place in 2018.
- seaQuest DSV (1993) the storyline for the science fiction television series begins in 2018.
- The second season of Code Geass (2006) takes place in 2018.
References
- ↑ "Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games in Korea". Olympic.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ - FIFA.com". Fifa.com. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "the 2018 Perihelic Apparition of Mars - Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers". Alpo-astronomy.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA". Jwst.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Missions - Solar Orbiter - NASA Science". Science.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "Kingdom Tower - The Skyscraper Center". Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
- ↑ "NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018". Space.com. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ Dorrier, Jason. "The Race to a Billion Billion Operations Per Second: An Exaflop by 2018?". Singularity HUB. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "US missile defence shield to be in Poland by 2018". neurope.eu. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
- ↑ Boyle, A: "Cosmic Log" MSNBC, 10 October 2006
- ↑ "Case study ExoMars". UK Government Space Agency. 3 July 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ↑ "Time Capsules: Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument - pinknantucket press". Pinknantucket.com.au. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Metro City Circle Line - Danish Architecture Centre". Dac.dk. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "JPL - Missions - Mars Sample Return". Jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Solar Probe Plus - Nasa". Solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "State Archives to Stay Classified for 20 More Years, PM Instructs - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source". Haaretz.com. 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ Archived February 14, 2005 at the Wayback Machine
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