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| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
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| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
| Gregorian calendar | 2022 MMXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2775 |
| Armenian calendar | 1471 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6772 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 178–179 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1943–1944 |
| Bengali calendar | 1429 |
| Berber calendar | 2972 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2566 |
| Burmese calendar | 1384 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7530–7531 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4718 or 4658 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4719 or 4659 |
| Coptic calendar | 1738–1739 |
| Discordian calendar | 3188 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2014–2015 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5782–5783 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2078–2079 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1943–1944 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5122–5123 |
| Holocene calendar | 12022 |
| Igbo calendar | 1022–1023 |
| Iranian calendar | 1400–1401 |
| Islamic calendar | 1443–1444 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 34 (平成３４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1955–1956 |
| Juche calendar | 111 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4355 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 111 民國111年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 554 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2565 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 2148 or 1767 or 995 — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 2149 or 1768 or 996 |
| Unix time | 1640995200 – 1672531199 |
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2022 (MMXXII) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium, the 22nd year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Following the 2018 enactment of the Music Modernization Act, and assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before 1923 will enter the public domain in the U.S.[1][2]
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Beijing will be the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.
- February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II, if still reigning, will reach 70 years on the throne, marking her platinum jubilee, the first British monarch ever to reach such a milestone.
- June – SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first BFR spaceship to Mars, paving the way to colonization.[3][4]
- November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar.[5], to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.
Date unknown
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[6]
- 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[7]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[8]
- A collision of the contact binary star system KIC 9832227 will result in a luminous red nova, briefly creating one of the brightest objects in the night sky.[9]
- Romania could join the eurozone. The target date has been set by Foreign Minister Teodor Meleșcanu.[10]
- India plans to launch its first manned space flight by this year.[11]
In fiction
References
- ↑ Deahl, Dani (October 11, 2018). "The Music Modernization Act has been signed into law". The Verge. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ↑ Stolz, Mitch (September 19, 2018). "The New Music Modernization Act Has a Major Fix: Older Recordings Will Belong to the Public, Orphan Recordings Will Be Heard Again". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ↑ "Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision". BBC. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ↑ http://clowder.net/hop/railroad/EMa.htm
- ↑ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011.
- ↑ "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ Jonathan Amos (2012-05-02). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ↑ Clery, Daniel (2017-01-06). "Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aal0579. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ↑ Ionel Dancu (15 December 2017). "Iohannis la Bruxelles: România să treacă la moneda euro cât mai repede". Evenimentul zilei (in Romanian).
- ↑ Tomasz Nowakowski (August 20, 2018). "India Aims to Send its First Crewed Mission to Space by 2022". Retrieved August 23, 2018.
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