2022
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2022 by topic: |
(Anime) – – Comics – Film (, ) – Home video – Literature () – (, Country, Hip hop, , , Metal, Rock, , US) – – – Television (, UK, Scotland, US) – Video games |
Elections – – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors |
Science and technology |
– – – Palaeontology – – – Space/Astronomy – Spaceflight – - |
Transportation |
– Rail transport |
Sports |
– Association football – Athletics (sport) – – – – – – Cricket – – – – – – – |
By place |
Afghanistan – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – New Zealand – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Poland – – – – – – – – – – – Singapore – – Slovenia – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – United Kingdom – United States – – – – – – – – |
Other topics |
Religious leaders |
Birth and death categories |
– Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works and introductions categories |
Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain |
Gregorian calendar | 2022 MMXXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2775 |
Armenian calendar | 1471 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6772 |
Bahá'í calendar | 178–179 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1943–1944 |
Bengali calendar | 1429 |
Berber calendar | 2972 |
British Regnal year | N/A |
Buddhist calendar | 2566 |
Burmese calendar | 1384 |
Byzantine calendar | 7530–7531 |
Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4718 or 4658 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 4719 or 4659 |
Coptic calendar | 1738–1739 |
Discordian calendar | 3188 |
Ethiopian calendar | 2014–2015 |
Hebrew calendar | 5782–5783 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 2078–2079 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1943–1944 |
- Kali Yuga | 5122–5123 |
Holocene calendar | 12022 |
Igbo calendar | 1022–1023 |
Iranian calendar | 1400–1401 |
Islamic calendar | 1443–1444 |
Japanese calendar | Reiwa 4 (令和4年) |
Javanese calendar | 1955–1956 |
Juche calendar | 111 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
Korean calendar | 4355 |
Minguo calendar | ROC 111 民國111年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 554 |
Thai solar calendar | 2565 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 2148 or 1767 or 995 — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 2149 or 1768 or 996 |
Unix time | 1640995200 – 1672531199 |
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2022 (MMXXII) will be 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.
The United Nations has declared 2022 as the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture[1] and the International Year of Glass.[2]
Events[]
January[]
Predicted and scheduled events[]
- January 1 – Following the 2018 enactment of the Music Modernization Act, and assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before 1923 will enter the public domain in the U.S.; alongside that, books, films and other works published in 1926 will enter the public domain as well.[3]
- January 4 – 2022 Italian presidential election
- January 8 – Venus will pass 0.2658 AU (39.76 million km; 24.71 million mi; 103.4 LD) from Earth.[4]
- January 30 – 2022 Portuguese legislative election
- February 4 – February 20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, making it the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.[5]
- February 6 – If still living and reigning, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee on this date, marking 70 years on the throne, a mark that no other British monarch before her has held.[6]
- February 28 – Egypt will celebrate 100 years of independence from the United Kingdom.
- March – Run 3 of CERN's Large Hadron Collider will commence.[7]
- March 9 – 2022 South Korean presidential election
- March 27 – 2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election
- April 3 – 2022 Serbian general election
- April 10 – 2022 French presidential election
- April 14 – October 9 – Floriade 2022
- May 5 – Next Northern Ireland Assembly election
- May 9 – 2022 Philippine general election[8]
- May 10–14 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 will be hosted in Turin, Italy.
- May 29 – 2022 Colombian presidential election
- July 4 – If the definitive proposal for a new Constitution still isn't voted before, the Constitutional Convention in Chile will have to vote the draft on this date, and it will be subsequently dissolved, given the one-year deadline established by law.
- July 6 – July 31 – UEFA Women's Euro 2022 in England[9]
- July 7 – July 17 – 2022 World Games
- July 28 – August 8 – 2022 Commonwealth Games[10]
- August 14 – Pakistan will celebrate its platinum (75th) Independence Day.
- August 15 – India will celebrate its platinum (75th) Independence Day.
- August 17 – Indonesia will celebrate its 77th Independence Day.
- August 26 – September 15 – ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[11]
- September 11 – 2022 Swedish general election
- October 2 – 2022 Brazilian general election
- November 8 – The 2022 U.S. elections will select the 118th Congress, the first after the redistricting reflecting the 2020 U.S. Census, and state and local officials.[12]
- November 21 – December 18 – 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, to avoid both the summer heat between May and September and clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics.[13]
- December 15 – Providing a general election is not called before this date, Leo Varadkar will succeed Micheál Martin as Taoiseach (prime minister) of the Republic of Ireland, as part of a rotation agreement made in 2020.[14]
Date unknown[]
- The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will elect a new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping Administration.[15]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies in lunar orbit, is set to be delivered by an undetermined commercial launch vehicle.[16]
- NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test will make impact with Dimorphos in the first ever attempt to change an asteroid's course of trajection.[citation needed]
- Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.[17]
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[18]
- 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[19]
- India plans to launch its first crewed space flight by this year.[20]
- Chuuk State will hold an independence referendum in the Federated States of Micronesia.[citation needed]
- The New Horizons probe will complete its study of the Kuiper belt.[21]
- India is expected to surpass China as the most populous country in the world.[21]
- The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch the Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission sometime in 2022.[22]
- The first light of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is anticipated to occur in 2022 with full science operations beginning a year later.[23][24][25]
- The 2022 Hungarian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- The 2022 Asia Cup is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka.[citation needed]
- The 2022 Australian federal election is scheduled to take place no later than 21 May 2022.
References[]
- ^ "International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture". United Nations. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ "International Year of Glass". United Nations. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
- ^ "Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
The federal remedies for unauthorized use of pre-1972 sound recordings shall be available for 95 years after first publication of the recording, ending on December 31 of that year, subject to certain additional periods. These periods provide varying additional protection for pre-1972 sound recordings, based on when the sound recording was first published: For recordings first published before 1923, the additional time period ends on December 31, 2021.
- ^ Venus @ JPL Horizons
- ^ "2022 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games | Beijing 2022". International Olympic Committee. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "The heartbreaking reason the Queen doesn't celebrate her accession". The Independent. February 6, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "New schedule for CERN's accelerators and experiments".
- ^ "Philippine presidential election: who's running, who's favourite and what's their China policy?". South China Morning Post. October 9, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Women's EURO moved to July 2022". UEFA.com. April 23, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "Home of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games". Birmingham 2022. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Witasse, O.; Altobelli, N.; Andres, R.; Atzei, A.; Boutonnet, A.; Budnik, F.; Dietz, A.; Erd, C.; Evill, R.; Lorente, R.; Munoz, C.; Pinzan, G.; Scharmberg, C.; Suarez, A.; Tanco, I.; Torelli, F.; Torn, B.; Vallat, C.; JUICE Science Working Team (July 2021). JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer): Plans for the cruise phase. Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021. doi:10.5194/epsc2021-358. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
- ^ "How Changes to the 2020 Census Timeline Will Impact Redistricting". Brennan Center for Justice. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "FIFA Executive Committee confirms November/December event period for Qatar 2022". FIFA.com. March 19, 2015. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015.
- ^ Kelly, Fiach. "Martin to step down as taoiseach in December 2022". The Irish Times.
- ^ Ling Li (November 11, 2021). "How Xi Jinping could rule China for life". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
- ^ "Trump's 2020 budget Will Take US from Moon to Mars, Agency Chief Says". Space.com. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ "Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe". Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Tomasz Nowakowski (August 20, 2018). "India Aims to Send its First Crewed Mission to Space by 2022". Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ a b "2022 Future Timeline | Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events". www.futuretimeline.net. Retrieved November 19, 2020.
- ^ "India's first unmanned space mission scheduled for launch in 2022; Chandrayaan-3 moon mission in advanced stages of realisation". Business Insider. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
- ^ "Vera C. Rubin Observatory". AURA Astronomy. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- ^ Wu, Katherine J. "For the First Time, a National U.S. Observatory Has Been Named for a Female Astronomer: Vera Rubin". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
- ^ "What Does the Future of Astronomy Hold? We'll Find Out Soon". Discover Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
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