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2021 by topic:

News by month

Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

Arts

Architecture - Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music (Country, Metal, UK) - Film - Television - Home video

Politics

Countries - Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders - Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology - Meteorology - Rail transport - Science - Spaceflight

Sports

Sport - Athletics (Track and Field) - Australian Football League - Baseball - Football (soccer) - Ice Hockey - Motorsport - Tennis - National Rugby League

By place

Argentina - Australia - Canada - China -France - India - Iran - Iraq - Ireland - Japan - Kenya - Luxembourg - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Singapore - South Africa - United Kingdom - United States - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Deaths - Awards - Games - Law - Religious leaders - Video gaming

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works - Introductions v • d • e

2021 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2021 MMXXI
Ab urbe condita	2774
Armenian calendar	1470 ԹՎ ՌՆՀ
Bahá'í calendar	177 – 178
Berber calendar	2971
Buddhist calendar	2565
Burmese calendar	1383
Byzantine calendar	7529 – 7530
Chinese calendar	庚子年十一月十八日 (4657/4717-11-18) — to — 辛丑年十一月廿八日 (4658/4718-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1737 – 1738
Ethiopian calendar	2013 – 2014
Hebrew calendar	5781 – 5782
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2076 – 2077
- Shaka Samvat	1943 – 1944
- Kali Yuga	5122 – 5123
Holocene calendar	12021
Iranian calendar	1399 – 1400
Islamic calendar	1442 – 1443
Japanese calendar	Heisei 33 (平成33年)
Korean calendar	4354
Thai solar calendar	2564
Unix time	1609459200 – 1640995199
v • d • e

2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

May

• May 11 — Elections will take place in British Columbia, Canada.^[1]

Unknown dates

• NASA will have colonized the moon with scientists for more Mars research.^{citation needed}
• Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas, will emerge.
• CVN-80, the United States Navy's proposed replacement for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), to be commissioned.
• Costa Rica will become a carbon-neutral nation. The target date has been set by President Oscar Arias. ^[2]
• CityRail will commence phasing out its 1970-1977 V-Sets for newer, more modern cars. The new trains are currently unknown.
• A president of the United States will be inaugurated on January 20.

2021 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Shadowrun: On April 30, ten percent of the world's population suddenly transform into new racial types, resulting in the ork and troll races.
• Trauma Center: New Blood: The chronological setting of New Blood.

Film

• Click (2006): Michael Newman's father dies.
• Set in 2021: Moon Zero Two (1969)
• Set in 2021: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Literature

• In the Terminator novel New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures, Skynet initiates Judgement Day.
• Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham (2004): On January 15, UNPROFLEET, the fleet sailing under the command of Admiral Phillip Kolhammer off the coast of East Timor, disappears, sent back in time to June 2, 1942.
• Set in 2021:
  • The Children of Men by P.D. James (1992)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (earlier editions set in 1999) (1968)

Television

• set in 2021: Cowboy Bebop (1999-2000) "The Gate Accident" took place
• Set in 2021: Sealab 2021 (2000–2005)

References