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, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• August 12 – A solar eclipse is predicted.
• Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.
• Onboard plutonium generators delivering heat and electricity to Mars Science Laboratory will run out.
• A new UN Secretary General is scheduled to be elected.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007).
• Black Ops 2 (2012): Ending takes place that year.

Film

• Metropolis (1927).
• Doom (2005) part of the story takes place in 2026.
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): The events of the film take place ten years after a deadly epidemic wipes out most of the human populace.

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 year when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.
• In the TV Series Ben 10, the events of Ben 10,000 take place on Grandpa Max's birthday in 2006 (60) and 2026 (80). (2006).
• In 2006, the Comedy Central program Mind of Mencia took a humorous look at what 2026 might look like, through a fictional newscast based on August 16 of that year.