Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2044 2045 2046 – 2047 – 2048 2049 2050

2047 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2047 MMXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2800
Armenian calendar	1496 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԶ
Bahá'í calendar	203 – 204
Bengali calendar	1454
Berber calendar	2997
Buddhist calendar	2591
Burmese calendar	1409
Byzantine calendar	7555 – 7556
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (4683/4743) — to — 丁卯年 (4684/4744)
Coptic calendar	1763 – 1764
Ethiopian calendar	2039 – 2040
Hebrew calendar	5807 – 5808
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2102 – 2103
- Shaka Samvat	1969 – 1970
- Kali Yuga	5148 – 5149
Holocene calendar	12047
Iranian calendar	1425 – 1426
Islamic calendar	1469 – 1470
Japanese calendar	Heisei 59 (平成59年)
Korean calendar	4380
Thai solar calendar	2590
Unix time	2429913600 – 2461449599
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2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

• July – A METI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar will arrive at its destination, 47 UMa star.
• July 1 – The present "one country, two systems" 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. See also the transcript of Deng's dialogue with Margaret Thatcher: [1].
• August 17 – Assuming no further changes to the United States copyright law, music by Elvis Presley will enter the public domain.
• December 31 – After this date, works published between January 1, 1978 and December 31, 2002 have the possibility of entering the public domain in the United States. U.S. Copyright law specifically prohibits any work created during that period from automatically entering the public domain before this date.

[edit] Fictional events

• In the Command and Conquer universe, the Third Tiberium War is started when the Brotherhood of Nod destroys the Global Defense Initiative's orbital command centre, the Philadelphia, using a nuclear missile.
• In the Star Trek universe the city of Los Angeles is struck by the Hermosa Earthquake causing parts of the city to fall into the sea.
• In Event Horizon (film), a search-and-rescue team is sent to a decaying space ship orbiting Neptune where an unimaginable horror awaits them.
• The English localization of Snatcher for the Sega CD, an adventure game originally released in Japan for various platforms, moved the setting from 2042 to 2047.
• In the SimCity video game, floodings hit Rio de Janeiro due to global warming.