2019
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This article is about the year 2019.
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s 1990s 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 2030s 2040s |
| Years: | 2016 2017 2018 – 2019 – 2020 2021 2022 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2019 MMXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2772 |
| Armenian calendar | 1468 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6769 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 175–176 |
| Bengali calendar | 1426 |
| Berber calendar | 2969 |
| British Regnal year | 67 Eliz. 2 – 68 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2563 |
| Burmese calendar | 1381 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7527–7528 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十一月廿六日 (4655/4715-11-26) — to —
己亥年十二月初六日(4656/4716-12-6) |
| Coptic calendar | 1735–1736 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2011–2012 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5779–5780 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2075–2076 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1941–1942 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5120–5121 |
| Holocene calendar | 12019 |
| Iranian calendar | 1397–1398 |
| Islamic calendar | 1440–1441 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 31 (平成31年) |
| Korean calendar | 4352 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 108 民國108年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2562 |
| Unix time | 1546300800–1577836799 |
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2019 (MMXIX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2019th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 19th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 10th of the 2010s. It will also be the last year of the 2010s decade.
[edit] Predicted and scheduled events
[edit] January
- January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U.S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
[edit] December
- December 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from South Asia.[1]
[edit] Date unknown
- ITER, an international scientific experiment (the 2nd largest in world history) in developing nuclear fusion as an energy source will begin its first plasma experiments.[2]
- Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflops.[3]
- Completion of the North-south line of the Hong KongMTR.
[edit] In fiction
[edit] Computer and video games
- Out Run 2019 (1993)
- Blade Runner (1997)
- Martian Gothic: Unification (2000)
- The House of the Dead III (2002)
- TimeSplitters 2 (2002) (the "Neotokyo" level)
- Crysis (2007)
- Crysis Warhead (2008)
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (2009)
- Gyakuten Kenji 2 (2011)
[edit] Film
- Blade Runner (1982), in November
- The New Barbarians aka. Warriors of the Wasteland (1982)
- 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983)
- The Running Man (1987)
- Akira (1988)
- The Island (2005), on 19 July until 23 July
- Daybreakers (2010)
[edit] Television series
- Batman Beyond (1999–2001): In the first episode of Batman Beyond titled "Rebirth" begins in the year 2019, before fast forwarding to the year 2039
- Dark Angel (2000–2002): The main events of the series begin.
- Futurama ("The Honking", 2000): An automotive research lab creates Project Satan from the most evil parts of the most evil cars of all-time. Project Satan's first victim was the great robot actor Calculon (back when he was a robot arm), which got infected with a computer virus that turned him into a murderous automobile similar to a werewolf.
- Dollhouse ("Epitaph One", 2009): The events of this episode take place in a post-apocalyptic version of 2019.
[edit] Music
- Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010): Danger Days is a concept album, taking place in post-apocalyptic California during the year 2019.
[edit] Book
- 2019 (2011) ISBN 9780615568317
[edit] References
- ^ NASA: Annular Solar Eclipse of 2019 December 26, 2009-09-15, http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=20191226, retrieved 2010-08-07
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10793883
- ^ Thibodeau, Patrick (2008-06-10). "IBM breaks petaflop barrier". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/10/IBM_breaks_petaflop_barrier_1.html.