Timeline of the near future

2010s

• 2019:
  • 29 March: At 23:00 (UTC) the United Kingdom will cease to be a member of the European Union, it will be on the two-year anniversary of the invocation of Article 50 which officially started the Brexit process.
  • 2019 Copa América to be held in Brazil
  • 2019 Pan American Games to be held in Lima, Peru
  • 2019 Southeast Asian Games to held in Manila, the Philippines
  • 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan
  • 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England
  • 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup to be held in China
  • 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup to be held in France
  • Commemorations for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

2020s

• 2020:
  • The Voyager program is expected to terminate.
  • 2020 Summer Olympics to be held in Tokyo, Japan.
  • China's third space station is scheduled to launch.
  • The Jeddah Tower is expected to be completed and will become the world's tallest building.
  • The World Trade Center (2001-present) will be complete.
• 2021:
  • Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
  • The Red Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail is scheduled to be completed.
  • The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched in March.
• 2022:
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.
  • European Space Agency plans to launch JUICE for exploration of Jupiter's icy moons by 2022.
  • 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China.
  • The first Indian bullet train project between the cities of Ahmedabad and Mumbai will be completed.
• 2023:
  • London's new "super sewer" will be finished.^[1]
  • The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
  • Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires in the United States under current copyright law.^[2]
  • On October 29, Turkey will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
  • At some point in this year, SpaceX plans to send a private citizen (and a group of artists of his choosing) on a lunar free return tourism mission. ^[3]
• 2024:
  • The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Denmark and Germany is expected to open.^[4]
  • SpaceX plans to launch a human mission to Mars, with arrival due in 2025.^[5]
  • A solar eclipse takes place on April 08.^[6]
  • 2024 Summer Olympics to be held in Paris, France.
• 2025:
  • The Giant Magellan Telescope is scheduled to have been completed.^[7]
  • Planned completion of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.^[8]
• 2026:
  • Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.^[9]
  • A solar eclipse takes place on August 12.
  • 2026 FIFA World Cup to be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
• 2028: A total solar eclipse will be visible across Australia and New Zealand on July 22.
• 2028: 2028 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, USA.
• 2029: The Message From Earth will reach the Gliese 581 planetary system.
• 2029: The Apophis Asteroid will be visible to the naked eye within the Moons orbit.

2030s

• 2030: European Space Agency's spacecraft JUICE is expected to enter the Jovian system.
• 2032: Transit of Mercury
• 2038: Year 2038 problem, similar to the Year 2000 problem that occurred on January 19, 2000.
• 2039: Transit of Mercury

2040s

• 2040: Median value for the advent of artificial general intelligence according to a 2012 study of predictions thereof.^[10] This could then quickly lead to the technological singularity.
• 2042: Global population reaches nine billion. Non-Hispanic whites become a minority in the United States.
• 2045: The estimated year that the technological singularity will occur according to Ray Kurzweil.
• 2045: On August 17, Indonesia will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
• 2047: On July 1, the People's Republic of China's obligation to run Hong Kong as a special administrative region per the Sino-British Joint Declaration expires, and with it the enforceability of the Hong Kong Basic Law.
• 2047: On August 14, Pakistan will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
• 2047: On August 15, India will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
• 2049: On October 1, the People's Republic of China will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its proclamation.
• 2049: On December 20, the People's Republic of China's obligation to run Macau as a special administrative region per the Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau expires.

2050s

• 2050: Three-North Shelter Forest Program is expected to be completed.^[11] Nearly half of the Amazon rainforest has been deforested.
• 2051: Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination, the star Gliese 777.
• 2057: Two solar eclipses will occur in this year. On August 31, Malaysia will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.

2060s

• 2061: Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System. It reaches perihelion on July 28.
• 2063: On 12 December, Kenya will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
• 2065: Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.
• 2067: Mercury occults Neptune.
• 2067: On 1 July, Canada will commemorate the 200th anniversary of its confederation.

2070s

• 2071: On March 26, Bangladesh will commemorate the 100th anniversary of its independence.
• 2076: The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.
• 2076: On July 4, The United States will commemorate the 300th anniversary of its independence.
• 2077: Beginning of the 16th century in the Islamic calendar.

2080s

• 2084: The lease held by the Pitjantjatjara people on Uluru to Australian government set to expire.

2100s

• 2100: On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar), the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7, this will be the first time in history since its inception that the Gregorian calendar has the same day of the week for each day of the year as the Julian calendar. This will last until February 28, 2200 of the Gregorian Calendar.
• Polaris appears furthest North. Polaris's maximum apparent declination (taking account of nutation and aberration) will be 0.4526° from the celestial north pole, on 24 March 2100.^[12]
• 2103: Per an agreement between the National Archives and Caroline Kennedy, the jacket Jackie Kennedy wore on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated cannot be displayed in public until this year.^[13]

2110s

• 2110: According to Extreme Engineering from Discovery Channel, proposed Japanese mega-project Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid could be completed at this time.
• 2113: August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.
• 2114: Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.
• 2117: December 10–11: Transit of Venus.

2120s

• 2123: Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter.
• 2123: June 9: Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.^[14]
• 2123: At 15:28 UTC, on September 14, Venus will eclipse Jupiter.
• 2125: December 8: Transit of Venus.
• 2126: At 16:08 UTC on July 29, Mercury will occult Mars.

2130s

• 2134: Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System

2140s

• 2148: Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn.

2150s

• 2150: June 25: Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s, Solar Saros 139.^[15] This will be the first time an eclipse has exceeded 7 minutes of totality in 177 years; the last time this occurred was on June 30, 1973,^[16] when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot for 73 minutes.

2160s

• 2160: March 17 – Unless changes are made as to when Easter can be observed, this particular March 17 will fall within Holy Week for the first time since 2008 and fall on the same day (Monday) as it did in that year, likely requiring the movement of the Feast of Saint Patrick's Day to another date.^[17]
• 2168: July 5: Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s, saros 139.^[18]

2170s

• 2170: Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter.
• 2174: The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.
• 2177: "First Plutonian anniversary" of the dwarf planet's discovery, given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.

2180s

• 2185: Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn.
• July 16, 2186 : Solar eclipse^[19] of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum), Saros 139,^[20] "crowning" this series. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10,000 year period, from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC.DEPP).^[21]
• 2187: Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn.

2190s

• 2197: September 2: Venus occults Spica (the previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10, 1783). The Moon will occult Neptune on December 24.

2200s

• 2209: Return of Halley's Comet.

2220s

• 2221: Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.
• 2223: On December 2 at 12:32 UTC, Mars will occult Jupiter.

2230s

• Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.

2240s

• 2240: 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.
• 2243: On August 12 at 04:52 UTC, Venus will occult Saturn.
• 2247: Transit of Venus on June 11.

2250s

• 2251: On March 4 at 10:52 UTC, Venus will occult Uranus.
• 2253: On August 1, Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13, 364 BC).
• 2255: Transit of Venus on June 9.

2260s

• 2265: Return to perihelion by the Great Comet of 1861.

2270s

• 2279: Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.

2280s

• 2281, 2282: Grand trine of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.

2290s