2045
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | |
| Decades: | |
| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 2045 MMXLV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2798 |
| Armenian calendar | 1494 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6795 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 201–202 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1966–1967 |
| Bengali calendar | 1452 |
| Berber calendar | 2995 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2589 |
| Burmese calendar | 1407 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7553–7554 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4742 or 4535 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4743 or 4536 |
| Coptic calendar | 1761–1762 |
| Discordian calendar | 3211 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2037–2038 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5805–5806 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2101–2102 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1966–1967 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5145–5146 |
| Holocene calendar | 12045 |
| Igbo calendar | 1045–1046 |
| Iranian calendar | 1423–1424 |
| Islamic calendar | 1467–1468 |
| Japanese calendar | Reiwa 27 (令和２７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1979–1980 |
| Juche calendar | 134 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4378 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 134 民國134年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 577 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2588 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 2171 or 1790 or 1018 — to — 阴木牛年 (female Wood-Ox) 2172 or 1791 or 1019 |
| Unix time | 2366841600 – 2398377599 |
2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
- August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.
Date unknown
- Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a Technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.[1]
- Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.[2]
- Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.[3]
- The United Kingdom is set to overtake Germany as Europe's leading economy.[4]
- Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year.[5]
In fiction
- In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.
- Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
- In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
- The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.
- The events portrayed in the movie Critters 4 take place in 2045.
- Time in History where Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, the 3rd Tiberium War takes place.
- In Macross 7, The main events of the series take place in this year.
- Doomsday in Angels & Airwaves movie L)VE (LOVE)
- June 16, 2045 does the YouTube april fools prank on April Fools Day 2012.
References
- ^ Lamb, Gregory M. (December 10, 2005). "Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil". USA Today. Retrieved January 28, 2008.
- ^ "The Year the World Really Changed," Newsweek, November 16, 2009
- ^ http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2011/2011-05-30-01.html
- ^ "The N-11: More Than an Acronym" - Goldman Sachs study of N11 nations, Global Economics Paper No: 153, March 28, 2007.
- ^ "2045: The year man becomes immortal, published on 10 February 2011.