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2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture.[1]
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Following the 2018 enactment of the Music Modernization Act, and assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before 1923 will enter the public domain in the U.S.; alongside that, books, films and other works published in 1926 will enter the public domain as well.[2]
- January 8 – Venus will pass 0.2658 AU (39.76 million km; 24.71 million mi; 103.4 LD) from Earth.[3]
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China, making Beijing the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.[4]
- February 6 – If still living and reigning, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee on this date, marking 70 years on the throne, a mark that no other British monarch before her has held.[5]
- February 6 – The Super Bowl LVI will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
- February 20 – The 2022 NBA All-Star Game will be held in Cleveland, Ohio.
- February 28 – Egypt will celebrate 100 years of independence from the United Kingdom.
- March – The Hong Kong Special Administration Region will hold an election for Chief Executive.
- April – France will hold a presidential election.
- April – Hungary will hold the 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election.
- April 1 – Japan will enforce its lowered majority age of 18, but not for drinking, smoking, or gambling.[6]
- April 14 – October 9 – The Floriade 2022 will be held in Almere, Netherlands.
- Late April – The 2022 NFL Draft will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- May 5 – Northern Ireland will hold an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly no later than this date in the United Kingdom.
- May 9 – The 2022 Philippine presidential election is scheduled to be held.[7]
- June 9 – ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[8]
- July 6 – July 21 – After being postponed, the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 is scheduled to take place in England.[9]
- June 30 – The term of President of the Republic of Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is expected to end at noon.
- July 7 – July 17 – After being postponed, the 2022 World Games is scheduled to take place in Birmingham, United States.
- July 16 – The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the United States will adopt the new three-digit N11 code 9-8-8.
- July 27 – August 7 – The 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[10]
- August 15 - India celebrates its platinum (75th) Independence day.
- September 7 – Brazil celebrates its bicentennial independence.
- September 11 – Sweden will hold a general election to the Riksdag.
- October 2 – Brazil will hold a general election for the Presidency, Vice Presidency, and the National Congress.
- November 8 – The 2022 U.S. elections will select the 118th Congress, the first after the redistricting reflecting the 2020 U.S. Census, and state and local officials.[11] 36 states and 3 territories will have gubernatorial elections, and Los Angeles and Washington D.C. will hold mayoral elections.
- November 20 – Joe Biden will become the first U.S. President to celebrate his 80th birthday in office.
- November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.[12]
- December 15 – Providing a general election is not called before this date, Leo Varadkar will succeed Mícheal Martin as Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland, as part of a rotation agreement made in 2020.[13]
Date unknown
- All data from the 1950 U.S. Census will be fully released to the public.[14]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies in lunar orbit, is set to be delivered by an undetermined commercial launch vehicle.[15]
- Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.[16]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[17]
- 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[18]
- India plans to launch its first crewed space flight by this year.[19]
- Sudanese general election will occur as part of its transition to democracy, with a constitutional convention on the electoral system and form of government also scheduled.[20]
- Chuuk State will hold an independence referendum in the Federated States of Micronesia.
- The New Horizons probe will complete its study of the Kuiper belt.[21]
- India is expected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world.[21]
References
- ^ "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture". United Nations. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ "Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
The federal remedies for unauthorized use of pre-1972 sound recordings shall be available for 95 years after first publication of the recording, ending on December 31 of that year, subject to certain additional periods. These periods provide varying additional protection for pre-1972 sound recordings, based on when the sound recording was first published: For recordings first published before 1923, the additional time period ends on December 31, 2021.
- ^ Venus @ JPL Horizons
- ^ "2022 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games | Beijing 2022". International Olympic Committee. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "The heartbreaking reason the Queen doesn't celebrate her accession". The Independent. February 6, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Jozuka, Emiko (June 15, 2018). "Japan lowers its age of adulthood to 18". CNN. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ "Duterte-Duterte in 2022? Possibilities are limitless: Palace". Philippine News Agency. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Jonathan Amos (May 2, 2012). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ^ UEFA.com (April 23, 2020). "UEFA Women's EURO moved to July 2022". UEFA.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Home of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ 216; 206; 207. "How Changes to the 2020 Census Timeline Will Impact Redistricting". Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has numeric name (help) - ^ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. March 19, 2015.
- ^ Editor, Fiach Kelly Deputy Political. "Martin to step down as taoiseach in December 2022". The Irish Times.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ US Census Bureau, Census History Staff. "When will census records be available? - History - U.S. Census Bureau". www.census.gov. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Trump's 2020 budget Will Take US from Moon to Mars, Agency Chief Says". Space.com. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ "Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe". Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011.
- ^ "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. May 10, 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Tomasz Nowakowski (August 20, 2018). "India Aims to Send its First Crewed Mission to Space by 2022". Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Democracy in Sudan: more work needed". The Africa Report. April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
- ^ a b "2022 Future Timeline | Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events". www.futuretimeline.net. Retrieved November 19, 2020.