2070s

The 2070s decade will begin on January 1, 2070 and will end on December 31, 2079.

Notable predictions and known events

2070

• February – An Active SETI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 197076 star.

2074

• The Green Wall of China is scheduled to be completed.

2075

• The Ozone layer is expected to have fully recovered.

2076

• Sedna—In 2076, around May 31, the planetoid 90377 Sedna is expected to reach its perihelion, its closest point to the Sun. It is expected to reach a distance of 76 AU, or 76 times the distance Earth is from the Sun. Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, thus it is difficult to locate —at its aphelion, it reaches about 942 AU. This date is subject to adjustment as Sedna's orbit is still being refined.

2077

• Beginning of 16th century according to the Islamic Hijri calendar.

2079

• May 1: A total solar eclipse is predicted for New York City, as well as Nova Scotia in Canada.
• June 6: The smalldatetime fields in SQL-Server databases will wrap around to January 1, 1900.
• June 25: All of Michael Jackson's songs will go into the public domain.
• August 11:, Mercury occults Mars first time since 578. It is difficult to observe, but best observable occultation of a planet by another in the 21st century.

Biblical references

• Bede computed that the world would end in 2076, extrapolating from Biblical references and the year of Jesus' birth.

Fictional references

• The 4th Edition of Shadowrun takes place in the 2070s.
• In Judge Dredd (in the comic 2000 AD) 2070 was the year President Robert L. Booth started the Atomic Wars. Booth, last president of the United States, was deposed. The following year the Battle of Armageddon took place, leading to the defeat of Booth's forces.
• The events that set the novel Ender's Game into motion take place in 2070.
• The animated film Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip has some scenes that take place in 2070.
• The events of the anime series Cowboy Bebop take place in 2071. The events of Cowboy Bebop: The Movie takes place during Halloween of that year.
• The Evil Dexter clone from Dexter's Laboratory as mentioned in the episode "Over Labbing" will destroy Dexter in 2072.
• The film Equilibrium takes place in 2072.
• The Nickleodeon cartoon series My Life as a Teenage Robot takes place in 2072. This is determined when title character Jenny reveals she was activated five years previously, prompting her friend Brad to ask if that meant she did not remember Super Bowl 100.
• The computer game System Shock begins on November 6, 2072, and the computer game Deus Ex: Invisible War also occurs in this year.
• Messenger (novel) by Lois Lowry is set to take place in 2073.
• The novel Rash by Pete Hautman takes place in the year 2074.
• The film Cyborg 2 starring Angelina Jolie is set in 2074.
• The Sega Saturn video game Gun Griffon: The Eurasian Conflict takes place in the year 2074.
• The game Red Faction is set in the year 2075 in Mars.
• The back-story to Antihero for Hire lists 2075 as the year Canada invaded the United States with an army of genetically modified dinosaurs.
• The manga and anime series Planetes takes place in the year 2075.
• The 1970s cartoon, Jabberjaw, is set in an underwater civilization in 2076.
• In Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the Lunar Declaration of Independence is sent to Earth on July 4, 2076; much of the book takes place in 2076.
• Chou Ninja Tai Inazuma! is set in the year 2076. Its sequel SPARK is set in the following year.
• The game Forsaken takes place in 2077.
• In Command & Conquer Saga in 2077 has been started the Fourth Tiberium War.
• Arthur C. Clarke novel Rendezvous with Rama begins with an asteroid striking Italy at 0946 GMT on September 11, 2077 - destroying Padua and Verona and sinking Venice.
• In the Fallout series of video games, the Great War that starts the Apocalypse, two hours of nuclear war that led to the devastation of Earth, takes place on October 23, 2077.
• Screamers is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film released in 1995 and set 83 years later in 2078.
• In commercials for the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation 9 was said to be released in 2078.
• Judge Dredd graduates from the Academy of Law in 2079.
• In the "Star Trek" universe, the maiden voyage for the crew of the USS Enterprise-D has them placed on (a re-vamped) trial in a Post-Atomic holocaust court; circa 2079. Extradimensional aliens, from the "Q" Continuum, charge them-and all humanity-for crimes of violence throughout Earth history in the TNG episode "Encounter at Farpoint, part one."