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2040 (MMXL) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2040th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 40th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2040s decade.
Predicted events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1944 will enter the public domain in the United States.
February
[edit]- February 6 – Early Macintosh computers cannot recognise dates after this day.
May
[edit]September
[edit]- September 8 - Planetary alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the crescent Moon[1]
November
[edit]- November 4 – Partial solar eclipse
Date unknown
[edit]- 2040 Summer Olympics will be held.
- Tuas Port in Singapore, the first fully automated container ship terminal in the world, will be completed and operational.[2]
- If the United States had not returned land for bases on Bermuda in 2002, a ninety-nine year lease (signed in 1941) would have expired.
- The Great Red Spot on Jupiter's atmosphere will become circular according to calculations based on its reduction rate at present.[3]
Fictional events
[edit]- The anime series Macross Plus and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are both set in this year.
- In the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the television becomes obsolete.
- A collection of Doctor Who short stories, Short Trips, is also set in that year.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Planets for Dessert – NASA Science". Science.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on December 12, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
- ↑ "World's largest automated terminal: PSA Tuas Port pioneering automation transformation with event-driven architecture". Seatrade Maritime News. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
- ↑ Siegel, Ethan (July 10, 2017). "Jupiter's Great Red Spot Gets Its First-Ever Close Up Today". Forbes. Archived from the original on July 10, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2019.