2018

This article is about the year 2018.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Years:	2015 2016 2017 – 2018 – 2019 2020 2021

2018 by topic:

News by month

Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec

Arts

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

Politics

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

Science and technology

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

Sports

Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league – Rugby Union

By place

Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Belgium - Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Hungary – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders - Internet

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions

2018 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2018 MMXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2771
Armenian calendar	1467 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6768
Bahá'í calendar	174–175
Bengali calendar	1425
Berber calendar	2968
British Regnal year	66 Eliz. 2 – 67 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2562
Burmese calendar	1380
Byzantine calendar	7526–7527
Chinese calendar	丁酉年十一月十五日 (4654/4714-11-15) — to — 戊戌年十一月廿五日 (4655/4715-11-25)
Coptic calendar	1734–1735
Ethiopian calendar	2010–2011
Hebrew calendar	5778–5779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2074–2075
- Shaka Samvat	1940–1941
- Kali Yuga	5119–5120
Holocene calendar	12018
Iranian calendar	1396–1397
Islamic calendar	1439–1440
Japanese calendar	Heisei 30 (平成30年)
Korean calendar	4351
Minguo calendar	ROC 107 民國107年
Thai solar calendar	2561
Unix time	1514764800–1546300799

2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on a Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2018th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 18th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 9th of the 2010s.

Predicted and scheduled events

February

• February 9 - February 25 – 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

June

• June 8 - July 8 – 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia.

July

• July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
• July 30 – NASA's Solar Probe Plus will be launched.

Date unknown

• The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.
• The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched no earlier than 2018. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.
• The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
• Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to start funding the construction of the first elevator by 2031.
• Aurora Programme Aerocapture and soft landing technology demonstrator for Mars.
• The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
• According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, by 2018 “there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight.”
• Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line
• The Giant Magellan Telescope will be completed.
• The Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii will be completed.
• Launch of the Mars sample return mission.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Krazy Ivan (1996)
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife (2005)
• Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (starts in 2018 and ends in early 2019) (2007)

Film

• Rollerball (1975)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• I Spit on Your Rave (2010)
• Iron Sky (2012)
• The Island (2005)

Literature

• Halting State (2007) by Charles Stross.

Television series

• The storyline for the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV begins in 2018.
• The second season of Code Geass takes place in 2018.
• In the series finale of Smallville, it's revealed that Lex Luthor is elected President.