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2026 facts for kids
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1990s 2000s 2010s – 2020s – 2030s 2040s 2050s |
| Years: | 2023 2024 2025 – 2026 – 2027 2028 2029 |
2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Contents
Predicted and scheduled events
November
- November 13 – Heinz von Foerster's predicted technological (or rather demographic) singularity occurs.
Date unknown
- Automatic mission to Mars as proposed in the Aurora Programme
- Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.
- Onboard plutonium generators delivering heat and electricity to Mars Science Laboratory will run out.
In fiction
Movies
- Metropolis (1927)
Literature
- "There Will Come Soft Rains", a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.
- "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.
Television
- seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
- Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.
- Fringe episode "The Day We Died" (2011): Peter travels to this year when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.