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2045 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

2045 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2045 MMXLV
Ab urbe condita	2798
Armenian calendar	1494 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	6795
Bahá'í calendar	201–202
Bengali calendar	1452
Berber calendar	2995
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2589
Burmese calendar	1407
Byzantine calendar	7553–7554
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4741 or 4681     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4742 or 4682
Coptic calendar	1761–1762
Discordian calendar	3211
Ethiopian calendar	2037–2038
Hebrew calendar	5805–5806
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2101–2102
- Shaka Samvat	1966–1967
- Kali Yuga	5145–5146
Holocene calendar	12045
Igbo calendar	1045–1046
Iranian calendar	1423–1424
Islamic calendar	1467–1468
Japanese calendar	Heisei 57 (平成５７年)
Javanese calendar	1979–1980
Juche calendar	134
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4378
Minguo calendar	ROC 134 民國134年
Nanakshahi calendar	577
Thai solar calendar	2588
Unix time	2366841600–2398377599

2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2045th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 45th year of the 3rd millennium, the 45th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.
• Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.^[1]
• Based on Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year.^[2]
• Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.^[3]
• Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.^[4]
• According to a 2003 NASA study, a manned mission and subsequent colonization of Jupiter's moon Callisto may become possible around this year ^[5]
• The 2045 Initiative ends.

In fiction

• The science fiction TV series TekWar is in the year 2045.
• In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.
• Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere.
• In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
• The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.
• The events portrayed in the movie Critters 4 take place in 2045.
• Time in History where Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, the 3rd Tiberium War takes place.
• In Macross 7, The main events of the series take place in this year.
• Doomsday in Angels & Airwaves movie L)VE (LOVE)
• The events of the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline take place in 2045.
• In the short film Doc Brown Saves the World, Doc Brown explains to the viewer that in the timeline depicted in Back to the Future Part II, a nuclear holocaust occurred in 2045 when a computer virus created by Griff Tannen accidentally caused the nuclear reactors inside every Mr. Fusion device in the world to simultaneously explode. To prevent this from occurring, Brown alters history to prevent the invention of Mr. Fusion (as well as food hydrators and hoverboards), thus explaining why the 2015 shown in Part II never came to pass.

References

1. Lamb, Gregory M. (2005-12-10). "Progress at light speed: Ray Kurzweil". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
2. Grossman, Lev (2011-02-10). "Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME". Content.time.com. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
3. "The Year the World Really Changed," Newsweek, November 16, 2009
4. Archived November 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
5. "High Power MPD Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto" (PDF). Trajectory.grc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-11.