2023
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s |
| Years: | 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026 |
| 2023 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 | 2023 MMXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2776 |
| Armenian calendar | 1472 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6773 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 179–180 |
| Bengali calendar | 1430 |
| Berber calendar | 2973 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2567 |
| Burmese calendar | 1385 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7531–7532 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4719 or 4659 — to — 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4720 or 4660 |
| Coptic calendar | 1739–1740 |
| Discordian calendar | 3189 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2015–2016 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5783–5784 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2079–2080 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1944–1945 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5123–5124 |
| Holocene calendar | 12023 |
| Igbo calendar | 1023–1024 |
| Iranian calendar | 1401–1402 |
| Islamic calendar | 1444–1445 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 35 (平成３５年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1956–1957 |
| Juche calendar | 112 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4356 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 112 民國112年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 555 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2566 |
| Unix time | 1672531200–1704067199 |
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2023 (MMXXIII) will be a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 23rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.
- Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
- London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.[1]
- The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
- Due to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, assuming that there are no further changes in copyright law in the United States, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie as well as two other Mickey Mouse short films released in 1928 will fall into the public domain in the United States.
- 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.
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (1991)
- Perfect Dark (2000)
- Crysis 2 (2011) The events of this game are set in a post-apocalypse New York City in warfare with aliens.
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)
Film
- Gunbuster (1988)
- Click (2006): Michael Newman uses his remote control and is unwillingly sent to 2023, among other years.
- Doomsday (2008): briefly mentions the extension of the Thames Barrier due to torrential floods in 2023
- 2023 (2009)[2] Norwegian shortfilm.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): In the Future, Sentinels have been created to hunt down Mutants. They eventually begin targeting Humans with a strong possibility to have mutant children and humans who help the mutants. A majority of the world's population has been killed. From here, the X-Men project Wolverine back to 1973 to prevent Sentinels from ever being created, saving all of mankind in the process.
- The Purge: Anarchy (2014): The events of the film take place a year after the 2022 Purge.
Television
- Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) (1986): Matthew Forman is put into cold sleep on June 18, 2023, in the hopes that his inoperable cancer can be cured in the future.
- Silent Mobius (1991)
- Batman Beyond (1999): Terry McGinnis to be born on August 18.
- Burn Up Scramble[3] (2004)
- The Last Man on Earth (2015): In episode 3 of season 2 it is revealed at Gordon's funeral, that the show is set in 2023.
Literature
- The Carnival of Immortals (1980) by Enki Bilal.
- The Woman Trap (1986) by Enki Bilal.
- Equator Cold (1992) by Enki Bilal.
- Killing Time (2000) by Caleb Carr.
- The Free Lunch (2001) by Spider Robinson
References
- ↑ "Better roads, rail travel and new river crossings in spending boost for London | Politics | News | London Evening Standard". Thisislondon.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Archived December 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
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