2020
This article is about the year 2020. For the cricket format, see Twenty20. For other uses, see 2020 (disambiguation).
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s |
| Years: | 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 |
| 2020 by topic: |
| Arts |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming |
| Politics |
| Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states |
| Science and technology |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight |
| Sports |
| Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Tennis |
| By place |
| Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Vietnam |
| Other topics |
| Awards – Law – Religious leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
| Gregorian calendar | 2020 MMXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2773 |
| Armenian calendar | 1469 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6770 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 176–177 |
| Bengali calendar | 1427 |
| Berber calendar | 2970 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2564 |
| Burmese calendar | 1382 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7528–7529 |
| Chinese calendar | 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4716 or 4656 — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4717 or 4657 |
| Coptic calendar | 1736–1737 |
| Discordian calendar | 3186 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2012–2013 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5780–5781 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2076–2077 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1941–1942 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5120–5121 |
| Holocene calendar | 12020 |
| Igbo calendar | 1020–1021 |
| Iranian calendar | 1398–1399 |
| Islamic calendar | 1441–1442 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 32 (平成３２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1953–1954 |
| Juche calendar | 109 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4353 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 109 民國109年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 552 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2563 |
| Unix time | 1577836800–1609459199 |
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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter ED) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- July 24 – August 9 – The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.[1]
- October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.[2]
Date unknown
- Aurora Programme Exploration of the Martian geological environment.
- ESA's ExoMars Rover Touches down on Mars.[3]
- Estimated completion date for the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometer in height.[4]
- Planned initial observations by the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.
- Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars and prepare for future human missions.[5]
- Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe.
- The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository was scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.[6]
- The main segment of track extending from San Francisco to Anaheim of the California High Speed Rail system is expected to be completed.
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- The Large Hadron Collider will be substantially upgraded.[7]
- Estimated completion date for the Compass navigation system.[8]
- The London Underground Northern line extension from Kennington to Battersea via Nine Elms is planned to be opened in 2020.
- London's Crossrail is scheduled to be in full service by 2020.
- Liberia will become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid – Norway will pay the impoverished country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020.[9]
- Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the United States twenty-dollar bill.[10]
In fiction
Main article: List of works of fiction set in 2020
See also
References
- ↑ "Olympics 2020: Tokyo wins race to host Games - BBC Sport". Bbc.co.uk. 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "Expo 2020 Dubai, First World Expo in the Middle East". Bie-paris.org. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
- ↑ "Yorkshire salt mine could help shed light on Martian life". phys.org.
- ↑ "New skyscraper set to dwarf the world's tallest tower". Network Ten.
- ↑ "Overview - 2020 Mission Plans". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "NRC inspector general: Chairman withheld information in Yucca shutdown". The Daily Caller. 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ ""Big Bang" machine to get huge upgrade in 2020". Reuters. November 17, 2011.
- ↑ "China GPS rival Beidou starts offering navigation data". BBC News. BBC. 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
- ↑ "Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation". BBC. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ↑ Times, Los Angeles. "Harriet Tubman is the next face of the $20 bill; $5 and $10 bills will also change". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
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