2140s

"2142" redirects here. For the videogame, see Battlefield 2142.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	21st century – 22nd century – 23rd century
Decades:	2110s 2120s 2130s – 2140s – 2150s 2160s 2170s
Years:	2140 2141 2142 2143 2144 2145 2146 2147 2148 2149

The 2140s decade will begin on January 1, 2140 and will end on December 31, 2149. It will be the fifth decade of the 22nd century.

Predicted Astronomical Events

• June 19, 2141: Long-duration lunar eclipse of about 106.1 minutes. This lunar eclipse is in the same Saros series (132) as the long lunar eclipse in 2123, and has an almost identical duration.
• 2148: Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn.

Science Fiction set in 2140s

Literature

• Crisis in 2140 (serialized as Null-ABC) by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
• The Outward Urge by John Wyndham has the first successful landing on Venus in 2144.
• Dirty Pair by Haruka Takachiho occurs during 2138–2143, though most incarnations of the story place the setting at 2141.

Television and Film

• The events of Captain Power occur in the year 2147.
• The events of Sky Blue occur in the year 2142.
• The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
• Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161).
• The SciFi Channel series FTL Newsfeed begins in the year 2142.
• The Fox Network series "Terra Nova" takes place in the year 2149.

Video Games

• Battlefield 2142 is a computer game based on a war beginning in the year 2139. It also predicts that a new ice age will begin in 2106. Its expansion pack Northern Strike is set in 2145.
• Earth 2140.
• Doom 3 is a science-fiction horror game that takes place in 2145.