Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	2000s  2010s  2020s  - 2030s -  2040s  2050s  2060s
Years:	2027 2028 2029 - 2030 - 2031 2032 2033

2030 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

2030 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2030 MMXXX
Ab urbe condita	2783
Armenian calendar	1479 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԹ
Bahá'í calendar	186 – 187
Berber calendar	2980
Buddhist calendar	2574
Burmese calendar	1392
Byzantine calendar	7538 – 7539
Chinese calendar	己酉年十一月廿八日 (4666/4726-11-28) — to — 庚戌年十二月初七日 (4667/4727-12-7)
Coptic calendar	1746 – 1747
Ethiopian calendar	2022 – 2023
Hebrew calendar	5790 – 5791
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2085 – 2086
- Shaka Samvat	1952 – 1953
- Kali Yuga	5131 – 5132
Holocene calendar	12030
Iranian calendar	1408 – 1409
Islamic calendar	1451 – 1452
Japanese calendar	Heisei 42 (平成42年)
Korean calendar	4363
Thai solar calendar	2573
Unix time	1893456000 – 1924991999
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2030 (MMXXX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

• FIFA's World Cup will have its 24th edition, 100 years after the first one. Uruguay is often mentioned as a possible host for this edition, because it hosted the inaugural edition in 1930 and there is even a project called Uruguay 2030 but, so far, no countries have yet officially offered to host the tournament.
• The Games of the XXVI Winter Olympics will be held.
• The European Space Agency hopes to land humans on Mars between 2030 and 2035.
• November 5: United States congressional elections.
• The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will construct a manned lunar base.^[1]
• The song Happy Birthday to You will enter the public domain in the United States.
• World population will reach 8.2 billion people.^[2]
• 18 percent of the world’s coral reefs will be lost due to climate change.^{citation needed}
• All New Zealand cars will be hybrid, bio-fuel, or electric.
• The joint venture partnership between Volkswagen Group China and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation is due to end.
• NASA Neptune Orbiter mission to Neptune
• Assuming no further changes in the United States copyright law, Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder will enter the public domain.

References to 2030 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Set in 2030:
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004)

Film

• Back to the Future Part II (1989): In the first timeline of the future, Marty McFly Jr. is released from prison.

• Theodore Rex

• The Time Machine (2002): Time traveller Alexander Hartdegen stops in this year 2030 where he talks to a holographic, artificial-intelligence librarian called Vox. Also in this year mining is occurring on the Moon for the development of lunar homes.

• The Kid (2000): At the end of the movie where the main character finds his 70 year old self, but differing to other movies there were no changes in anything that was seen (planes, dinners and clothing).

• Click (2006): A man named Michael used his remote control where he kept fast forwarding into the future. Eventually, he arrived at his son's wedding at 2030.

Television

• Set in 2030:
  • 2030 CE (2002-2003)
  • Century City (2004)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002–2003)
  • How I Met Your Mother (2005–present): Specifically, the framing sequences with the 52-year-old Ted.
  • The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future"
  • Phil of the Future episode: The Giggle — Keely is seen twice as a beautiful news reporter and then as an overweight woman who is obsessed with cats.
  • Race to Mars, a television miniseries postulating how the first human mission to Mars may unfold.

Media franchises

• Star Trek: Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive, is born.

References