2049

This article is about the year 2049.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2046 2047 2048 – 2049 – 2050 2051 2052

2049 by topic:

Arts

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

Politics

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

Science and technology

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

Sports

Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States - Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2049 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2049 MMXLIX
Ab urbe condita	2802
Armenian calendar	1498 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԸ
Assyrian calendar	6799
Bahá'í calendar	205–206
Bengali calendar	1456
Berber calendar	2999
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2593
Burmese calendar	1411
Byzantine calendar	7557–7558
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4745 or 4685     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4746 or 4686
Coptic calendar	1765–1766
Discordian calendar	3215
Ethiopian calendar	2041–2042
Hebrew calendar	5809–5810
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2105–2106
- Shaka Samvat	1971–1972
- Kali Yuga	5150–5151
Holocene calendar	12049
Igbo calendar	1049–1050
Iranian calendar	1427–1428
Islamic calendar	1471–1472
Japanese calendar	Heisei 61 (平成６１年)
Juche calendar	138
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4382
Minguo calendar	ROC 138 民國138年
Thai solar calendar	2592
Unix time	2493072000–2524607999

2049 (MMXLIX) will be a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2049th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 49th year of the 3rd millennium, the 49th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

May

• May 7 – Transit of Mercury.

December

• December – The very earliest and possible response signal from the Gliese 581 vicinity, should there be one by intelligent extraterrestrial life, will be received. A signal was transmitted to the Gliese 581 vicinity in August 2009, taking about 20.3 years to reach its destination.
• 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 expire.

Date unknown

• The 99-year lease in the Churchill–Roosevelt Destroyers for Bases Agreement, in which the United States traded 50 destroyers to the British Commonwealth in return for the right to use several British colonial possessions as bases, will expire, barring a renegotiation.

In fiction

• The races in San Francisco Rush 2049, the last arcade game from Atari Games, take place during this year and given the military naval presence and appearance of a full moon suggest this is during Fleet Week 2049 hence on or about the tenth of October. 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.
• The technology that allows a person to control a Custom Robo is developed by Ergo Corp., according to the Custom Robo series of video games.
• The events of the series IGPX take place.
• The Disney Channel movie Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century takes place in 2049, 50 years after the movie debuted on television in 1999.
• The video game Vectorman takes place in 2049
• The video game Miner 2049er takes place in 2049
• The video game M.A.C.H. takes place in 2049
• The video game When it's Over takes place in early 2049
• The video game Nier takes place in 2049
• The video game Crimson Tears is set in Tokyo in 2049
• The Doctor Who episode Kill the Moon is set in 2049