2022
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.
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| 2022 by topic: |
| 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 |
| Other topics |
| 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 | 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 | Reiwa 4 (令和４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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The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture.[1]
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., alongside that, books, films, and other works published in 1926 will enter the public domain too.[2]
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China, making Beijing the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.[3]
- February 6 – If still living and reigning, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee on this date, marking 70 years on the throne, a mark that no other British monarch before her has held.[4]
- May 9 – The 2022 Philippine presidential election is scheduled to be held.[5]
- July 6 – July 21 – After being postponed, the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 is scheduled to take place in England.[6]
- July 27 – August 7 – The 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[7]
- November 8 – The 2022 United States elections will select the 118th Congress, the first after the redistricting reflecting the 2020 United States Census, and state and local officials.[8]
- November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.[9]
Date unknown
- All data from the 1950 United States Census will be fully released to the public.[10]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies on the Moon, is set to be delivered by an undetermined commercial launch vehicle.[11]
- Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.[12]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[13]
- 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[14]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[15]
- SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first Starship to Mars, paving the way to colonization of the planet.[16][17]
- India plans to launch its first crewed space flight by this year.[18]
- Sudanese general election will occur as part of its transition to democracy, with a constitutional convention on the electoral system and form of government also scheduled.[19]
In fiction
- 21st century in fiction
References
- "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture". United Nations. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- "Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
The federal remedies for unauthorized use of pre-1972 sound recordings shall be available for 95 years after first publication of the recording, ending on December 31 of that year, subject to certain additional periods. These periods provide varying additional protection for pre-1972 sound recordings, based on when the sound recording was first published: For recordings first published before 1923, the additional time period ends on December 31, 2021.
- "2022 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games | Beijing 2022". International Olympic Committee. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "The heartbreaking reason the Queen doesn't celebrate her accession". The Independent. February 6, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Duterte-Duterte in 2022? Possibilities are limitless: Palace". Philippine News Agency. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- UEFA.com (April 23, 2020). "UEFA Women's EURO moved to July 2022". UEFA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Home of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- 216; 206; 207. "How Changes to the 2020 Census Timeline Will Impact Redistricting". Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved May 29, 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. March 19, 2015.
- US Census Bureau, Census History Staff. "When will census records be available? - History - U.S. Census Bureau". www.census.gov. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Trump's 2020 budget Will Take US from Moon to Mars, Agency Chief Says". Space.com. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- "Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe". Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011.
- "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. May 10, 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- Jonathan Amos (May 2, 2012). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- "Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision". BBC. September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- "[No title]". clowder.net. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
I'm assuming circular, coplanar orbits and 12 equal months in a year, therefore these results are approximate.
- Tomasz Nowakowski (August 20, 2018). "India Aims to Send its First Crewed Mission to Space by 2022". Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- "Democracy in Sudan: more work needed". The Africa Report. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
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