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2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone.[1]
- January 7 – The winner of the 2024 Ghanaian presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated.
- January 8–February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.
- January 13 - The 2025 Winter World University Games will be held in Turin, Italy.
- January 20 – The winner of the 2024 United States presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated.
- January 28 – If not triggered earlier, the next United Kingdom general election will be held no later than this date.
- February 9 – The 2025 Ecuadorian general election is scheduled to be held.
- March 8–17 – 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games.[2]
- April 13–October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[3]
- May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled to be held.
- May 18 – The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held; incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election.
- May 24 – If not triggered earlier, the next Australian federal election is scheduled to be held on this date.
- May 31 – The 2025 UEFA Champions League final is scheduled to be held in Munich, Germany.
- June 15–July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is scheduled to be held in the United States.
- October 14 – Microsoft has set the retirement (end-of-life) date for its Windows 10 operating system on this date.[4][5] Users will either have to install Windows 11 or use an alternative operating system to Microsoft.
- October 20 – If not triggered earlier, the 45th Canadian federal election will be held no later than this date.
- October 26 – If not triggered earlier, the next German federal election will be held no later than this date.
- November 23 – The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.
Date unknown
- The next Japanese general election is scheduled to be held.
- Artemis II, the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since 1972 and second mission of the Artemis Program, is scheduled to launch no earlier than September 2025.
- If not triggered earlier, the next Singaporean general election will be held no later than November 23, with the current Parliament to be dissolved no later than August 24.
- A ecumenical meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches at Nicaea is scheduled to be held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[6]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[7][8]
- The Caribbean guilder is planned to replace the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[9]
- Rockstar Games will release Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment in the Grand Theft Auto series.
See also
References
- ^ "Bulgaria gives up its goal to join eurozone in 2024". Euractiv. February 17, 2023. Archived from the original on February 21, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
- ^ "Nomination open for Torino 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games". Special Olympics Great Britain. December 12, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- ^ "Windows 10 Home and Pro Lifecycle". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ^ "Windows 10 Enterprise and Education Lifecycle". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- ^ "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Archived from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Introduction of Caribbean Guilder delayed again, possibly pushed to 2025". Curaçao Chronicle. July 13, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023.