Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2023 2024 2025 – 2026 – 2027 2028 2029

2026 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 – South Korea - 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

2026 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2026 MMXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2779
Armenian calendar	1475 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԵ
Bahá'í calendar	182 – 183
Bengali calendar	1433
Berber calendar	2976
Buddhist calendar	2570
Burmese calendar	1388
Byzantine calendar	7534 – 7535
Chinese calendar	乙巳年十一月十三日 (4662/4722-11-13) — to — 丙午年十一月廿三日 (4663/4723-11-23)
Coptic calendar	1742 – 1743
Ethiopian calendar	2018 – 2019
Hebrew calendar	5786 – 5787
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2081 – 2082
- Shaka Samvat	1948 – 1949
- Kali Yuga	5127 – 5128
Holocene calendar	12026
Iranian calendar	1404 – 1405
Islamic calendar	1447 – 1448
Japanese calendar	Heisei 38 (平成38年)
Korean calendar	4359
Thai solar calendar	2569
Unix time	1767225600 – 1798761599
v • d • e

2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Predicted events 2 In fiction 2.1 Film 2.2 Literature 2.3 Television 3 References

[edit] Predicted events

• July 4 – The United States of America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, 250 years of independence.
• November 3 – Elections for the 120th United States Congress.
• November 13 – Heinz von Foerster's predicted technological (or rather demographic) singularity occurs.
• Automatic mission to Mars as proposed in the Aurora Programme
• The 23rd FIFA World Cup will take place. No countries have applied to host it yet.
• At current population growth rates, India will surpass China as the world's most populous country.
• Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona will be finished.^[1]
• 2026 Winter Olympics; The host city is to be chosen in 2019

[edit] In fiction

[edit] Film

• Set in 2026: Metropolis (1927)

[edit] Literature

• "There Will Come Soft Rains," a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.
• "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.

[edit] Television

• seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
• Star Trek: Enterprise (episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.

[edit] References