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2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 1 Bulgaria will join eurozone. Become 20th Eurozone country.
- January 15 – April 15 – Expo 2023 is scheduled in Buenos Aires.[1]
- September 8 – October 21 – 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled in France.
Date unknown
- OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.[2]
- Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
- London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.[3]
- The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
- According to words of Turkey's president (formerly a prime minister) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, if the countries of the European Union will not accept Turkey as a member before the year 2023, Turkey would no longer be a candidate to the union.
- The European Spallation Source is expected to go into operation in Lund, Sweden.[4]
- Sweden is likely to become a cashless society by 2023, according to a prediction by then deputy governor Cecilia Skingsley of Riksbank.[5]
In fiction
References
- ^ "Argentina elected host country of Specialised Expo 2023". Retrieved January 4, 2020.
- ^ "OSIRIS-REx Factsheet" (PDF). NASA/Explorers and Heliophysics Projects Division. August 2011.
- ^ "Better roads, rail travel and new river crossings in spending boost for London | Politics | News | London Evening Standard". London Evening Standard. November 29, 2011. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ "Home Page". European Spallation Source. August 11, 2015.
- ^ "Riksbank predicts Sweden will be 'cashless' within five years". Reuters. December 4, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.