26th century

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Centuries:	25th century - 26th century - 27th century

The 26th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2501–2600 of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Astronomical events
2 Science fiction set in the 26th century
3 Miscellaneous entries
4 Decades and years

[edit] Astronomical events

April 7, 2515: At 10:37 UTC Mars will occult Neptune
January 25, 2518: At 22:41 UTC Venus will occult Saturn
2599: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter

[edit] Science fiction set in the 26th century

Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World is set in the year 2540.
The third and final portion of Darren Aronofsky's film The Fountain takes place in the 26th century with future astronaut Tom Verde, played by Hugh Jackman.
The "Fiat Homo" section of A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller takes place in the 26th century.
The video and computer game Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2 and Halo 3 are set in 2552 (the Halo books are based from 2517-2552).
The TV show Firefly and film Serenity are set in the year 2517, and follow Space Captain and Unification War veteran, Malcolm Reynolds, and his crew, across various planets.
In the early 2500s, humans make first contact with Pierson's Puppeteers in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.
The computer game StarCraft: Brood War takes place in the early 26th Century (and the original StarCraft may cross over into the early 26th century as well).
The NES game Super Spy Hunter takes place in 2525.
The Nintendo 64 game F-Zero X and the Nintendo GameCube game F-Zero GX take place in an unspecified year in the 26th century. However, in the Game Boy Advance game F-Zero GP Legend, it is stated that the game takes place in the 23rd Century in the year 2201.
One possible alternative future for the role playing game Mutants and Masterminds is set in Freedom City in 2525.
In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Azati Prime", Captain Jonathan Archer is briefly transported to a possible future 26th century (in the Star Trek universe) in which Klingon and Xindi crewmen serve the United Federation of Planets. Archer visits a possible version of USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) in this episode.
The TV show "Cleopatra 2525" is set in the year 2525. (The theme song for the show is a parody of the song "In the year 2525," mingled with the sound effects of futuristic weaponry.)
Battle Angel Alita (Gunm) is set during this century.
The Doctor Who episode Earthshock, featuring the hijacking of a space freighter by Cybermen, is set largely in the year 2526.
The Doctor Who episodes Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks take place in the year 2540.
Bernice Summerfield, a character created in Doctor Who novels and later spun off into her own range of novels and audio dramas, was born in 2540, and published an archaeological book, Down Among the Dead Men, in 2566.
The 4700 files is set in the years 2503-2506.
Most of the events of the novel Revelation Space take place in the year 2566 with flashbacks to 2524 and earlier centuries.
In the Xenosaga universe, the year 2510 is the year that the worldwide organization in charge of the space emigration plan changes the dating system from "A.D." to "T.C."
In Pierre Boulle's novel, La planète des singes, the hero Ulysse Merou mentions that he begun his trip through space in 2500.
2546 is the year in which South Park Character, Eric Cartman, will be unfrozen. He froze himself in the year 2006 because he was too impatient to wait three weeks for the Nintendo Wii to come out
The movie Idiocracy, in which an average man (played by Luke Wilson) from the year 2005 is suspended in hibernation and wakes up 500 years later, is set in the year 2505

[edit] Miscellaneous entries

The year 2525 became prominent in 1969 when it was used in the Zager and Evans song In the Year 2525, which reached number 1 in the Billboard Charts for July 21. The song opens with the words "In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find...".

The year 2525 will also be the 600th anniversary of the foundation of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[edit] Decades and years

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Decades and Years

2490s	2490	2491	2492	2493	2494	2495	2496	2497	2498	2499
2500s	2500	2501	2502	2503	2504	2505	2506	2507	2508	2509
2510s	2510	2511	2512	2513	2514	2515	2516	2517	2518	2519
2520s	2520	2521	2522	2523	2524	2525	2526	2527	2528	2529
2530s	2530	2531	2532	2533	2534	2535	2536	2537	2538	2539
2540s	2540	2541	2542	2543	2544	2545	2546	2547	2548	2549
2550s	2550	2551	2552	2553	2554	2555	2556	2557	2558	2559
2560s	2560	2561	2562	2563	2564	2565	2566	2567	2568	2569
2570s	2570	2571	2572	2573	2574	2575	2576	2577	2578	2579
2580s	2580	2581	2582	2583	2584	2585	2586	2587	2588	2589
2590s	2590	2591	2592	2593	2594	2595	2596	2597	2598	2599
2600s	2600	2601	2602	2603	2604	2605	2606	2607	2608	2609

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Centuries and Millennia

Millennium	Century
Before Christ (BC)
4th:	40th	39th	38th	37th	36th	35th	34th	33rd	32nd	31st
3rd:	30th	29th	28th	27th	26th	25th	24th	23rd	22nd	21st
2nd:	20th	19th	18th	17th	16th	15th	14th	13th	12th	11th
1st:	10th	9th	8th	7th	6th	5th	4th	3rd	2nd	1st
Anno Domini (AD)
1st:	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
2nd:	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
3rd:	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th
4th:	31st	32nd