2018
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 20th century · 21st century · 22nd century |
| Decades: | 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s |
| Years: | 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 |
| 2018 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2018 MMXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2771 |
| Armenian calendar | 1467 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6768 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 174–175 |
| Bengali calendar | 1425 |
| Berber calendar | 2968 |
| British Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 2562 |
| Burmese calendar | 1380 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7526–7527 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654 — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655 |
| Coptic calendar | 1734–1735 |
| Discordian calendar | 3184 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2010–2011 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5778–5779 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2074–2075 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1939–1940 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5118–5119 |
| Holocene calendar | 12018 |
| Igbo calendar | 1018–1019 |
| Iranian calendar | 1396–1397 |
| Islamic calendar | 1439–1440 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 30 (平成３０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1951–1952 |
| Juche calendar | 107 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4351 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 107 民國107年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 550 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2561 |
| Unix time | 1514764800–1546300799 |
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2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1]
- April – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.[2]
- May 5 – Launch of NASA's InSight is scheduled.
- June 14 – July 15 – 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.[3]
- July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.[4]
- October – The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.[5]
- October – The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.[6]
- November 26 – Landing of InSight on Mars is expected.[7]
- NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.[8]
- Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.[9]
- The US missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.[10]
- The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
- Researchers and investors in space elevator technology hope to start funding the construction of the first elevator by 2031.[11]
- The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.[12]
- Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line.[13]
- NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.[14]
- Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.[15]
- JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2018.[16]
In fiction
Main article: List of works of fiction set in 2018
Television
- In The Simpsons episode, "Holidays of Future Passed", the episode set in December 2018, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary (which is now an apartment complex instead of a school) with Principal Skinner as his landlord. Meanwhile, a first pregnant Maggie goes into labor. This is 7 years after the episode was first broadcast in 2011.
References
- ↑ "Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics - Next Winter Olympic Games in Korea". Olympic.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ http://phys.org/news/2016-07-bepicolombo-mission-mercury-track-april.html
- ↑ "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ - FIFA.com". Fifa.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2010. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "the 2018 Perihelic Apparition of Mars - Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers". Alpo-astronomy.org. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA". Jwst.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Missions - Solar Orbiter - NASA Science". Science.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "NASA Reschedules Mars InSight Mission for May 2018". nytimes.com. 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
- ↑ "NASA's New Space Launch System Mega Rocket Won't Fly Until 2018". Space.com. 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ Dorrier, Jason. "The Race to a Billion Billion Operations Per Second: An Exaflop by 2018?". Singularity HUB. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ "US missile defence shield to be in Poland by 2018". neurope.eu. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
- ↑ Boyle, A: "Cosmic Log" MSNBC, 10 October 2006
- ↑ "Time Capsules: Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument - pinknantucket press". Pinknantucket.com.au. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Metro City Circle Line - Danish Architecture Centre". Dac.dk. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Solar Probe Plus - Nasa". Solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ "State Archives to Stay Classified for 20 More Years, PM Instructs - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source". Haaretz.com. 2010-07-28. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
- ↑ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/1838.pdf
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