2024
2024 (MMXXIV) will be a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium, the 24th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
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| Arts |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK, US) – Radio – Photo – Television (UK, US) – Video gaming |
| Politics and government |
| Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| American football – Association football – Athletics (sport) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Chess – Combat sports – Cricket – Cycling – Golf – Handball – Ice hockey – Rugby union – Swimming – Tennis – Volleyball |
| By place |
| Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Andorra – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Bahrain – Barbados – Belarus – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bolivia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Botswana – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Comoros – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Fiji – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Guinea – Guyana – Haiti – Honduras – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iran – Iraq – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Jordan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kosovo – Kuwait – Kyrgyzstan – Laos – Latvia – Lebanon – Lesotho – Liberia – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Marshall Islands – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Malta – Mauritania – Mexico – Micronesia – Moldova – Mongolia – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nauru – Namibia – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Nicaragua – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – North Macedonia – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palau – Palestine – Panama – Papua New Guinea – Paraguay – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Qatar – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Samoa – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Seychelles – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – Solomon Islands – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tajikistan – Tanzania – Thailand – Togo – Tonga – Tunisia – Turkey – Turkmenistan – Tuvalu – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Vanuatu – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe |
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| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
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The United Nations has declared 2024 as the International Year of Camelids.[1]
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin' Gaucho will enter the public domain, as well as other books, films, and other works published in 1928.[2]
- March 25 – March 2024 lunar eclipse.
- April 8 – A total solar eclipse will be visible in the Central Pacific Ocean, northern Mexico, eastern, southwestern and central US, southeastern Canada and northern Atlantic Ocean.
- May 2 – The next UK general election is scheduled to be held on this date in accordance with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. It will elect the 59th Parliament of the UK and will be the first general election after Brexit.
- May 26 – Comet 9P/Tempel 1 will pass 0.55 AU from Jupiter and may break apart due to gravitational forces.[3]
- May 27 – Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest ever reigning monarch of a fully sovereign state if she is still alive and reigning.
- July 1 – General Elections for Mexico's president will be held.
- August 2–18 – The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France.[4]
- September 4–15 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics will be held in Paris, France.
- September 18 – September 2024 lunar eclipse.
- October 1 – If still living, Jimmy Carter will become the first former US president to celebrate his 100th birthday.
- October 2 – Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024.
Date unknown
- NASA plans to send "the first woman and the next man" to the Lunar south pole region via Artemis 3.
- Romania could join the eurozone. The target date was set by then Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă in late January 2019.[5]
- SpaceX plans to send a cargo mission to Mars in May and then a crewed mission to the surface in September with their Starship spacecrafts.
In fiction
- 21st century in fiction
gollark: Probably just through having central control.
gollark: There might be some difficulties with doing routing in busy areas without central control, but I think you could manage it with enough effort.
gollark: If it's good enough, yes, which it should be for planes.
gollark: Autopilot is probably workable, however.
gollark: Correct people derive political opinions from a political opinion of the day calendar.
References
- "International Year of Camelids". United Nations. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- Lee, Timothy B. (January 1, 2019). "Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon—here's what that means". Ars Technica. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
- "Past, Present, and Future Orbits by Kazuo Kinoshita". Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- Wharton, David. "Los Angeles makes deal to host 2028 Summer Olympics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
- "Romanian PM announces firm euro adoption deadline". Romania Insider. January 31, 2019. Retrieved April 24, 2020.
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