2049
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| Centuries: | 20th Century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s 2060s 2070s |
| Years: | 2046 2047 2048 2049 2050 2051 2052 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2049 MMXLIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2802 |
| Armenian calendar | 1498 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 205 – 206 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2593 |
| Chinese calendar | 4685/4745 (戊辰年) — to —
4686/4746(己巳年) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2041 – 2042 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5809 – 5810 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2104 – 2105 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1971 – 1972 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5150 – 5151 |
| Holocene calendar | 12049 |
| Iranian calendar | 1427 – 1428 |
| Islamic calendar | 1471 – 1472 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 61 (平成61年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2709 (皇紀2709年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 12049 |
| Julian calendar | 2094 |
| Korean calendar | 4382 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2592 |
2049 (MMXLIX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Predicted events
- May 7 - Transit of Mercury
- December 20 - The present "One country two systems" with Macau, guaranteed for 50 years starting from December 20, 1999 provided under the Basic Law, will be over.
[edit] Anniversaries
- May 23 - 100th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- June 8 - 100th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell's novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- October 1 - 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
[edit] Fictional events
- The races in San Francisco Rush 2049, the last arcade game from Atari Games, take place during this year. In-game advertisements about the races call it the "53rd Annual San Francisco Rush Tournament" (which set the races in the original San Francisco Rush in the year 1996- the year that the original game was released), and it is sponsored by "J. Ray and Associates" (a reference to the game's producer, John Ray).
- In the 1932 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 2049 sees the outbreak of The Nine Years' War, a conflict which devastates the entire planet and convinces world leaders to unite as a peaceful, but controversial, world society.
| Preceded by 2048 |
Years 2049 |
Succeeded by 2050 |
