AD 2047

Millennium: 3rd millennium
Centuries: 20th century21st century22nd century
Decades: 2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years: 2044 2045 204620472048 2049 2050
2047 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar2047
MMXLVII
Ab urbe condita2800
Armenian calendar1496
ԹՎ ՌՆՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6797
Bahá'í calendar203–204
Balinese saka calendar1968–1969
Bengali calendar1454
Berber calendar2997
British Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar2591
Burmese calendar1409
Byzantine calendar7555–7556
Chinese calendar丙寅(Fire Tiger)
4743 or 4683
    — to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4744 or 4684
Coptic calendar1763–1764
Discordian calendar3213
Ethiopian calendar2039–2040
Hebrew calendar5807–5808
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2103–2104
 - Shaka Samvat1968–1969
 - Kali Yuga5147–5148
Holocene calendar12047
Igbo calendar1047–1048
Iranian calendar1425–1426
Islamic calendar1469–1470
Japanese calendarReiwa 29
(令和29年)
Javanese calendar1981–1982
Juche calendar136
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4380
Minguo calendarROC 136
民國136年
Nanakshahi calendar579
Thai solar calendar2590
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
2173 or 1792 or 1020
    — to —
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
2174 or 1793 or 1021
Unix time2429913600 – 2461449599

2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2047th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 47th year of the 3rd millennium, the 47th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

July

  • July – A METI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar will arrive at its destination, 47 UMa star.
  • July 1 – The present "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong may end, as it was guaranteed for 50 years starting from July 1, 1997, provided under the Hong Kong Basic Law. The agreement was raised by Deng Xiaoping to deal with Hong Kong's reunification with the People's Republic of China in 1997, and stipulated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. What will be done is not stated in any document.[1]

August

September

  • September 8 – if still on the throne, Charles III of the United Kingdom will celebrate his Silver Jubilee. He will be 98 years old in 2047.

December

  • December 31 – After this date, works published between January 1, 1978 and December 31, 2002 have the possibility of entering the public domain in the United States. U.S. Copyright law specifically prohibits any work created during that period from automatically entering the public domain before this date.

In fiction

  • In the Command and Conquer universe, the Third Tiberium War is started when the Brotherhood of Nod destroys the Global Defense Initiative's orbital command centre, the Philadelphia, using a nuclear missile.
  • In the Star Trek universe the city of Los Angeles is struck by the Hermosa Earthquake Archived 2011-05-06 at the Wayback Machine causing parts of the city to fall into the sea.
  • In Event Horizon (film), a search-and-rescue team is sent to a decaying space ship orbiting Neptune where an unimaginable horror awaits them.
  • The English localization of Snatcher for the Sega CD, an adventure game originally released in Japan for various platforms, moved the setting from 2042 to 2047.
  • In the SimCity video game, floodings hit Rio de Janeiro due to global warming.
  • A Balkanized India enters a water war in the Postcyberpunk Hugo award-winning novel, River of Gods by Ian McDonald
  • Voices of a Distant Star, a Japanese anime, is set in 2047.
  • Crysis 3 is set in this year, where an enormous dome is placed over New York City to stop the expansion of the Ceph. Inside, the abandoned city is overrun with vegetation and the alien invaders. The game's protagonist, Alcatraz, has remained in the city ever since the end of Crysis 2

References

  1. See also the transcript Archived 2005-04-15 at the Wayback Machine of Deng's dialogue with Margaret Thatcher.