2090s

The 2090s (pronounced "twenty-nineties") is a decade of the Gregorian calendar that will begin on January 1, 2090, and will end on December 31, 2099. It will be the last decade of the 21st century.

Notable predictions and known events

2090

• The 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund is set to expire.

2092

• Work on cleaning up the site of the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire, England, which was decommissioned on 29 February 2012, is scheduled to be complete no earlier than 2092 (and possibly as late as 2101).

2094

• March 19 – A time capsule sealed exactly seventy-five years before, is scheduled to be opened at Denver International Airport.
• April 7 – Mercury occults Jupiter; it will be very close to the Sun and impossible to view with naked eye.

2096

• February 29 – First time since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar that Ash Wednesday falls on February 29.
• 2096 will be the last leap year in the 21st century, as 2100 will not be a leap year because it is divisible by 100 but not by 400, and it is the first such year since 1900.
• The dwarf planet 2015 RR₂₄₅ is expected to make its closest approach to the Sun.

2099

• The 100-year lease on toll Highway 407 in Ontario, Canada ends and full control of the electronic toll expressway returns to the Government of Ontario.

Fictional events

• 21st century in fiction