3rd millennium
In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 (MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 (MMM), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.
"New Millennium" redirects here. For the first years of this millennium, see 2000 and 2001. For the NASA project, see New Millennium Program. For the Yeat album, see 2093 (album).Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what will likely continue and what could plausibly change in this period and beyond.
Climate change
Extinction
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
List of future astronomical events
List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century
List of time capsules
Near future in fiction
Predictions and claims for the Second Coming
Projections of population growth
Representative Concentration Pathway
Works falling into the
public domain in the United States
Antarctic treaty
computing representation of date and time
2047: On 1 July, the present "" arrangement in Hong Kong is scheduled to end, as it was guaranteed for 50 years starting from July 1, 1997, provided under the Hong Kong Basic Law. The agreement was raised by Deng Xiaoping to deal with Hong Kong's reunification with the People's Republic of China in 1997, and stipulated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. What will be done is not stated in any document.[4]
one country, two systems
2049: On 20 December, the present "" arrangement with Macau, guaranteed for 50 years starting from 20 December 1999, provided under the Basic Law and the Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, will expire.[6]
one country, two systems
2103: Per an agreement between the and Caroline Kennedy, the jacket Jackie Kennedy wore on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated cannot be displayed in public until this year.[27]
National Archives
theoretically support dates up to 31 December 2107 (though officially only up to 31 December 2099).
FAT file systems
2206: For the first time since , Earth will experience the maximum number of five solar eclipses in one year.
1935
2265: Return of the .
Great Comet of 1861
2353: The as conventionally calculated will be five weeks earlier than its hypothetical date according to astronomical principles, in a "negative equinoctial paradox". Along with 2372, this will be one of only two such occurrences between 2020 and 4000.[41]
date of Easter
2372: The date of Easter will see another "negative equinoctial paradox", this time four weeks earlier than its hypothetical date. This will be the last such occurrence before the year 4000.
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2386: If not repealed or otherwise voided, the between England and Portugal, currently the oldest military alliance currently still in effect, will have stood for one thousand years.[42]
Treaty of Windsor (1386)
2391: and Saint Patrick's Day will coincide for the first time since 1940; the "wearing of the shamrock and the palm together" was seen as presaging a great event in Ireland.[43][44]
Palm Sunday
2400: The first since 2000.
century leap year
2425: If not repealed or overridden, the annual funding increase of $325 per student to public schools, which began in 2023, will end.[45]
Wisconsin
Tohoku University
2640: On 5 September, the 639-year-long performance of 's organ work As Slow as Possible (begun in 2001) is scheduled to finish at the St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany.[51]
John Cage
Earth will experience 241 lunar eclipses.
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2800: The second in the 3rd millennium
century leap year
2847: The (Happy Valley) in Hong Kong lease on Wan Chai's Saint Fulan gentleman street will end after a 999-year lease, assuming no legal status changes before that date.[53]
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery
2883: On 4 January, the CPR () lease on the O&Q (Ontario and Quebec) will end, after a 999-year lease.[54]