2021

This article is about the year 2021.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2018 2019 2020 – 2021 – 2022 2023 2024

2021 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

2021 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2021 MMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2774
Armenian calendar	1470 ԹՎ ՌՆՀ
Assyrian calendar	6771
Bahá'í calendar	177–178
Bengali calendar	1428
Berber calendar	2971
British Regnal year	69 Eliz. 2 – 70 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2565
Burmese calendar	1383
Byzantine calendar	7529–7530
Chinese calendar	庚子年十一月十八日 (4657/4717-11-18) — to — 辛丑年十一月廿八日 (4658/4718-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1737–1738
Ethiopian calendar	2013–2014
Hebrew calendar	5781–5782
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2077–2078
- Shaka Samvat	1943–1944
- Kali Yuga	5122–5123
Holocene calendar	12021
Iranian calendar	1399–1400
Islamic calendar	1442–1443
Japanese calendar	Heisei 33 (平成33年)
Korean calendar	4354
Minguo calendar	ROC 110 民國110年
Thai solar calendar	2564
Unix time	1609459200–1640995199

2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on a Friday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2021st year of the Common Era or Anno Domini designation; the 21st year of the 3rd millenium and of the 21st century; and the 2nd of the 2020s decade

Predicted and scheduled events

Date unknown

• Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
• CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
• Costa Rica has pledged to become a completely carbon-neutral nation by this date. The target date has been set by President Óscar Arias.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• D/Generation: Genetically engineered bioweapons take over the Singapore laboratory of the fictional genetics company Genoq.
• Shadowrun: On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2: (2008)

Film

• Moon Zero Two (1969)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Resiklo (2007)

Literature

• In the Terminator novel "New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures", Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
• Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.
• Set in 2021:
  • The Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1992) (1968)
  • Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears by Eric Trautmann (2007)
  • Perfect Dark: Second Front by Greg Rucka (2007)

Television

• Cowboy Bebop (1999–2000) "The Gate Accident" occurs.
• Sealab 2021 (2000–2005)