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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.
Predicted and scheduled events
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Beijing will be the first city ever to host both Summer and Winter Olympics
- July 18–31 – Durban will host the 2022 Commonwealth Games.[importance?]
- November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar.[1]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[2]
- 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[3]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[4]
- SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send humans to Mars on a new spacecraft, with flights beginning as early as 2022.[5]
In fiction
References
- ^ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. March 19, 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Jonathan Amos (May 2, 2012). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ^ "Elon Musk outlines Mars colony vision". BBC. September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.