25th century

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	24th century · 25th century · 26th century
Decades:	2400s 2410s 2420s 2430s 2440s 2450s 2460s 2470s 2480s 2490s

The 25th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span from January 1, 2401– December 31, 2500 of the Gregorian calendar.

Astronomical predictions for the 25th century

List of long total solar eclipses

• April 20, 2414 : Solar eclipse, (5 min 33 s), of saros 145.
• April 30, 2432 : Solar eclipse, (5 min 56 s), of saros 145.
• May 12, 2450 : Solar eclipse, (6 min 19 s), of saros 145.
• May 22, 2468 : Solar eclipse, (6 min 41 s), of saros 145.
• June 2, 2486 : Solar eclipse, (6 min 59 s), of saros 145.

Other phenomena

• December 30, 2419: At 01:38 UTC Venus will occult Uranus.
• 2426: Pluto's second orbit, since its discovery.
• 2456: Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter.
• August 29, 2478: At 23:11 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.
• June 12, 2490: Transit of Venus.
• May 6, 2492: Belgian astronomer Jean Meeus asserts that the orbits of all eight planets and Pluto will be within the same 90° arc of the Solar System. The last time this is believed to have occurred was on February 1, 949.
• June 10, 2498: Transit of Venus.

Science fiction set in the 25th century

• The adventures of Buck Rogers take place in the 25th century (c. 2419 with the original comics; 2491 with the 1970s TV series).
• The video games TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect take place mainly in 2401.
• The video game Ground Control is set in the 25th century
• The Star Fox video game series is set in the 25th century.^{[citation needed]}
• Parts of the final Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Endgame", takes place in the year 2404. The future Kathryn Janeway brings back technology from that year back to the year 2378 when she traveled back in time to help her crew get home 16 years earlier.
• Star Trek Online has been stated to begin in 2409.
• The beginning of Sonia Levitin's novel The Cure is set in 2407.
• The events of the Sega Mega Drive strategy game Vixen 357 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System strategy game War 2410 take place during this century.
• The events of the science fiction novel Fitzpatrick's War take place in the 25th Century.
• The events of the game Dead Space are set in 2414.
• The events of the 2005 science fiction film Æon Flux is set in the year 2415.
• DC Comics super-hero team the Justice Society of America uses a time-ray to travel from 1942 to 2442, in an attempt to get a Bomb Defense Formula which can produce a bomb-proof shield to protect America from bombing raids, feeling it will be perfected by then. It is shown by now humanity has colonised other planets.
• The JSA foe Landor travelled back 500 yrs from the year 2446, as by his time the world is much more peacful. He is intelligent enough to make weapons out of ordinary devices, a gun out of a flashlight. At the end of the story, Green Lantern restores him to his proper time.
• The plot of 2003 video game Beyond Good & Evil took place in 2435.
• In the TV series Futurama episode When Aliens Attack, Professor Farnsworth says that videotapes were destroyed during the Second Coming of Jesus, which took place in 2443.
• Louis-Sébastien Mercier's L'An 2440 depicts a utopia set in that year; the standard English translation rounds to 2500.
• The events of Star Ocean: The Second Story takes place in the year 2452.
• Jason X (although it begins in 2008, most of the film is set in the year 2455).
• The events of Mega Man ZX take place in the 25th century.
• All of the characters from the television series Firefly and feature film Serenity are born in the latter part of the 25th century.
• In the film Happy Accidents, Vincent D'Onofrio's character Sam Deed claims to be from the year 2470.
• In the Earthsiege universe, the first Cybrid known as Prometheus is activated on November 29, 2471.
• In David Brin's Uplift Universe, the events triggered by Streaker's discovery of the derelict fleet happen in the 25th century. Startide Rising and The Uplift War begin in 2489.
• The children's television series SilverHawks takes place in the 25th century.
• In some early stories featuring Marvel Comics time-travelling villain Kang the Conqueror, he claims to come from the 25th century.
• DC Comics superhero Booster Gold was born in the 25th century, as well as supervillain Reverse-Flash, who gets his superspeed powers using a time capsule buried in the 20th century containing a costume of the Flash.
• In the Australian TV series The Girl from Tomorrow, Tulista visits the year 2500 and comes back with Silverthorn who is from the year 2500.
• The second TV series of The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End takes place primarily in the year 2500. It starts out in the year 3000, with some scenes in the year 1990.
• Part of the Halo series takes place in the 25th century, including when the UNSC ship Spirit of Fire was launched.
• The computer game Fragile Allegiance begins on May 25, 2496.
• The events of the original computer game in the StarCraft series begin on December 12, 2499, crossing over into 2500.
• In Russ Manning's series Magnus, Robot Fighter, in 2500, a robotic repair ship crashes on a planet around the star malev and suffers severe damage. This leads to the creation of Malev-6, a malevolent computer that fills the entire planet.
• In 2500, oceans cover the Earth except for a few natural & man-made atolls – and remnants of humanity. A new breed of human, called Mariner, helps a woman and a child in their quest for a legendary location, Dryland – Waterworld, 1995
• The game Face of Mankind takes place in a persistent world where it is currently the year 2414.
• In the game StarCraft 2, James "Jim" Raynor was born on August 8, 2470. This was revealed on the Collectors Edition Dog Tag.
• Parts of the web comic Homestuck take place in the year 2422