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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, the 25th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events[edit]

  • Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, Plane Crazy, The Barn Dance, The Opry House, When the Cat's Away, The Barnyard Battle, The Plow Boy, The Karnival Kid, Mickey's Follies, Mickey's Choo Choo, The Jazz Fool, Jungle Rhythm, The Haunted House and Wild Waves will enter the public domain, as well as other books, films, and other works published in 1929.
  • 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 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.
  • March 18–April 7 – The 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament will be scheduled in Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
  • May 3–November 23 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[2]
  • October–November – The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be held in Canada and USA.

Date unknown[edit]

  • Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have sufficient electrical power to operate their radio transmitters until at least this year.[3]
  • 2025 Polish presidential election
  • Toyota plans to launch its first fully electric vehicles.[4]
  • Planned ecumenical meeting of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches at Nicaea (İznik, Turkey) to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[5]
  • The ESA plans to begin mining the moon for natural resources by this date.[6]
  • Norway plans to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[7][8]
  • ITER's first plasma will occur.[9]
  • Kazakhstan will gradually transition to the Latin alphabet.[10]
  • Moore’s law is forecast to end by this year.[11][12][13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gugliotta, Guy (November 17, 2009). "An Air-Traffic Upgrade to Improve Travel by Plane". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host | JAPAN Forward". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
  3. ^ "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007.
  4. ^ Alexander Stoklosa (June 10, 2019). "Toyota Details Six New EV Models Launching for 2020–2025". Car and Driver. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  5. ^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
  6. ^ Kent, Lauren (January 22, 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  9. ^ "First Plasma: 2025". ITER. August 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  10. ^ "Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap". Deutsche Welle. January 4, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
  11. ^ Kumar, Suhas (2012). "Fundamental Limits to Moore's Law". arXiv:1511.05956 [cond-mat.mes-hall].
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips NY Times, September 2015