2026

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s
Years:	2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029

2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

• July 4 will mark the United States Semiquincentennial, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

November

• November 13 – Heinz von Foerster's predicted technological (or rather demographic) singularity occurs.

Date Unknown

• Automatic mission to Mars as proposed in the Aurora Programme
• The 23rd FIFA World Cup will take place. It will not be held, according to FIFA's rules as of 2011, in Asia or Europe.
• Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)

Film

• Metropolis (1927)

Literature

• "There Will Come Soft Rains", a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.
• "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.

Television

• seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
• Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.
• Fringe episode "The Day We Died" (2011): Peter travels to this date when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.