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2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events[]
- January 1
- In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1929 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
- The American FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year.[1]
- January 8–February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.
- January 20 – The president-elect of the 2024 United States presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated.
- January 23 – The next UK general election is scheduled to be held on this date if the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill is enacted into law[2] to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.[3] The proposed bill, drafted as the Fixed-term Parliaments Act (Repeal) Bill, will ensure the 58th Parliament of the UK is dissolved five years after it first met.[3] It will still elect the 59th Parliament and will be the first general election after Brexit and since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- March 11 - if still ongoing, it would have been five years since the WHO's declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic.
- March 18–April 7 – The 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament will be scheduled in Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
- April 13–October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[4]
- October 14 – Microsoft has set the retirement (end-of-life) date for its Windows 10 operating system on this date, phasing it out in favor of its successor, Windows 11 (and Windows 11's successors).[5][6] Users with unsupported hardware will either have to retire use of the unsupported hardware, upgrade the machine, install a non-Microsoft OS like Linux, or force-install the OS.
- October–November – The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be held in Canada and United States.
Date unknown[]
- The Parker Solar Probe's mission comes to an end.[7]
- Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least this year.[8]
- The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held.
- Toyota plans to launch its first fully electric vehicles.[9]
- Planned ecumenical meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches at Nicaea (İznik, Turkey) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[10]
- The ESA plans to begin mining the moon for natural resources by this date.[11]
- Norway plans to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[12][13]
- Pakistan will host 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.
- ITER's first plasma will occur.[14]
- Kazakhstan will gradually transition to the Latin alphabet.[15]
- Moore's law is forecast to end by this year.[16][17][18]
References[]
- ^ Gugliotta, Guy (November 17, 2009). "An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane". The New York Times.
- ^ "Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill". Parliament.uk. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ^ a b "Government to fulfil manifesto commitment and scrap Fixed-term Parliaments Act". December 1, 2020.
- ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host | JAPAN Forward". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- ^ "Windows 10 Home and Pro Lifecycle". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ^ "Windows 10 Enterprise and Education Lifecycle". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
- ^ NASA. "Parker Solar Probe: The Mission". Parker Solar Probe. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
- ^ "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.
- ^ Alexander Stoklosa (June 10, 2019). "Toyota Details Six New EV Models Launching for 2020–2025". Car and Driver. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- ^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Kent, Lauren (January 22, 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
- ^ Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- ^ "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "First Plasma: 2025". ITER. August 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap". Deutsche Welle. January 4, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- ^ Kumar, Suhas (2012). "Fundamental Limits to Moore's Law". arXiv:1511.05956 [cond-mat.mes-hall].
- ^ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (February 9, 2016). "The chips are down for Moore's law". Nature. 530 (7589): 144–147. Bibcode:2016Natur.530..144W. doi:10.1038/530144a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26863965.
- ^ Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips NY Times, September 2015
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