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Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2018 2019 2020 – 2021 – 2022 2023 2024

2021 by topic:

News by month

Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec

Arts

Architecture – Art – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight

Sports

Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – National Rugby League

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – China – Denmark – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Ireland – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – Sri Lanka – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions v • d • e

2021 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2021 MMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2774
Armenian calendar	1470 ԹՎ ՌՆՀ
Bahá'í calendar	177 – 178
Berber calendar	2971
Buddhist calendar	2565
Burmese calendar	1383
Byzantine calendar	7529 – 7530
Chinese calendar	庚子年十一月十八日 (4657/4717-11-18) — to — 辛丑年十一月廿八日 (4658/4718-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1737 – 1738
Ethiopian calendar	2013 – 2014
Hebrew calendar	5781 – 5782
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2076 – 2077
- Shaka Samvat	1943 – 1944
- Kali Yuga	5122 – 5123
Holocene calendar	12021
Iranian calendar	1399 – 1400
Islamic calendar	1442 – 1443
Japanese calendar	Heisei 33 (平成33年)
Korean calendar	4354
Thai solar calendar	2564
Unix time	1609459200 – 1640995199
v • d • e

2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Predicted and scheduled events 1.1 Unknown dates 2 In fiction 2.1 Computer and video games 2.2 Film 2.3 Literature 2.4 Television 3 References

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

• January 20 – A President of the United States will be inaugurated.
• May 11 – Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.^[1]
• December 31 – Analog television will be switched off in Mexico.^[2]

[edit] Unknown dates

• Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
• CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
• Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias.^[3]
• CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970–1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
• Intel scientists predict that the shrinking of microchips roughly every 18 months (Moore's Law) will reach a fundamental limit by 2021. The Semiconductor industry won't be able to shrink transistors much, if at all, beyond the 16 nanometer technology process.^[4]

[edit] In fiction

[edit] Computer and video games

• Shadowrun: On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2: (2008)

[edit] Film

• Moon Zero Two (1969)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Click (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.
• Resiklo {2007}

[edit] Literature

• In the Terminator novel "New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures", Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
• Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.
• Set in 2021:
  • The Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)

[edit] Television

• Cowboy Bebop (1999–2000) "The Gate Accident" occurs.^[5]
  • Sealab 2021 (2000–2005)
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's (2008–Present)

[edit] References