22nd century

The 22nd century (Gregorian calendar) comprises the years 2101-2200.

See also: Future

Astronomical predictions for the 22nd century

• There will be 239 lunar eclipses
• A total solar eclipse exceeding 7 minutes of totality will occur on June 25, 2150. This will be the first time this has happened in 177 years, but eclipse fans will not have to wait nearly so long for it to happen again —on July 5, 2168 an eclipse with 7 min 26 s of totality will occur, and on July 16, 2186 an eclipse of 7 min 29 s (close to the theoretical maximum) will occur. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the 8,000 year period from 3000 BC to AD 5000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC.DEPP).
• 4 May 2102: There is a slight possibility that the asteroid 2004 VD17 will impact Earth
• December 11, 2117: Transit of Venus
• 2123: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
• September 14, 2123: At 15:28 UTC, Venus will occult Jupiter
• December 8, 2125: Transit of Venus
• July 29, 2126: At 16:08 UTC, Mercury will occult Mars
• December 3, 2133: At 14:14 UTC, Mercury will occult Venus
• 2134: Comet Halley will return to the inner solar system
• 2148: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
• 2170: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
• Given that Pluto's orbit is approximately 248 Earth years, the year 2178 will mark the first Plutonian anniversary of the planet's discovery
• 2185: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
• 2187: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
• September 2, 2197: Venus occults Spica (last occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10, 1783)

Major Anniversaries

• 2101 will be the 100th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
• 2106 will be the 500th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt and the 250th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla.
• 2156 will be the 400th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Mozart.
• 2185 will be the 500th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Science fiction set in the 22nd century

Literature (novels, short stories, comic books)

• Distress by Greg Egan
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Heads and Moving Mars, books by Greg Bear
• Kaleidoscope Century by John Barnes (frame story)
• Noon Universe created by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Rendezvous with Rama, a book by Arthur C. Clarke
• When Gravity Fails, a book by George Alec Effinger
• Judge Dredd, a 2000 AD story (note that the earliest episodes took place in 2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication (so a story published in the comic in 2006 will take place in 2128)).
• Strontium Dog, a 2000 AD story.
• Crisis in 2140 (serialized as Null-ABC) by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
• The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov is set in 2157.
• Sci-Fi Channel's Mission Genesis is set in 2157.
• Doraemon is born on September 3, 2112
• 1511H [Kombat] by Faisal Tehrani. (1511 Hijrah is 2087)

Television and film

• The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
• The first Alien film takes place in 2122 according to the Alien Universe Timeline. The sequels Aliens and Alien 3 both take place in 2179.
• Bicentennial Man, about half the events of this movie take place here
• Due to the time-travel nature of its stories, Doctor Who has taken place at various points during the 22nd century.
• Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, a film adaptation based on the 2nd Doctor Who TV story to feature the Daleks.
• Gundam Wing takes place in 2166 (AC 195).
• Mobile Suit Gundam, a Japanese anime television series. It is known that the UC timeline begins in 2081. This would place the One Year War (UC 0079) occurring in 2159.
• Gundam X, an alternate universe "what-if" of Mobile Suit Gundam where the Earth Federation lost the One Year War (called the Seventh Space War in GX), takes place in 2174, assuming the Seventh Space War took place at the same time as the One Year War.
• Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161).
• Phil of the Future, a Disney Channel series. (Diffys are from this era (2121) before they crash in 2004; theme song refers to Phil as a "22nd Century man").
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series with Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction setting
• Space Battleship Yamato was launched on October 9, 2199 on its desperate mission to save the earth in the Anime series of the same name.
• Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.
• Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2161). The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans. According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people. Enterprise is decommissioned in 2161, just prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets.
• According to Star Trek, the Earth-Romulan War will be fought between 2156 and 2160, which results in the establishment of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet on October 11, 2161. Star Trek also predicts human colonization of Mars by 2103.
• The Matrix, a science fiction cult movie, in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation. Morpheus, another character of the movie, identifies the events of the movie as being set in the years around 2199. However, it should be noted that it was mentioned in the film Matrix Reloaded that the movie took place in the 6th incarnation of The Matrix, meaning that the movie actually took place far further in the future than was originally believed.
• In Babylon 5, the Foundationism religion was started in the year 2157.
• The animated television series Exosquad is apparently set in the late 2110s.

Video games

• War was beginning in Zero Wing (of All Your Base fame) in 2101.
• Mach Rider a Nintendo Entertainment System game that is set in 2112.
• System Shock 2 is set in 2114.
• Alien Legacy, the launch of the Seedship UNS Calypso takes place in 2119; the launch of Tantalus takes place in 2135.
• Doom 3, The events at the UAC Base on Mars occur.
• Earth 2150, The Earth is destroyed at the end of this year in said series.
• Aliens vs. Predator takes place in 2154.
• Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters starts on February 17, 2155.
• Fallout begins in 2161.
• Traffic Department 2192 takes place in 2192.
• The events of the Doom computer games take place.
• Megaman X Series, takes place during 21XX (starting at 2114 or later).
• Front Mission 3 takes place in 2112. Additionally, this is when the People's Republic of Da Han Zhong forms out of China.
• The Flipside of Dominick Hide is set in the year 2130.
• Battlefield 2142 is an upcoming computer game that will be set in the year 2142.

Other

• 2112, an album by Rush about a man living in a dystopic society.
• Reich Star An RPG which takes place in 2134, it was published by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson (1991) under the name of "Creative Encounters"

External links

• 22nd century at Memory Alpha