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2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
- February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China.
Date unknown
- The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar.
- Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[1]
- 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[2]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[3]
In fiction
Anime
- Deadman Wonderland (2007) takes place in the year 2022.
- Sword Art Online (2009) initially takes place on November 6, 2022.
Films
- Goldfinger (film) (1964), the film's antagonist, Auric Goldfinger, states that he planned to release an atomic device over Fort Knox's gold vault, which would make the gold useless for 58 years. If the plan was set in motion, the gold would be radiated until 2022.
- Soylent Green (1973)
- No Escape (1994)
- Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003), according to Ron Stoppable, Shego is the dictator of the world known as The Supreme One at this point ("20 years from now").
- The Purge (2013), from the evening of March 21 to the morning of March 22.
Music
- Year Zero (2007): According to the information discovered from the viral marketing campaign for the concept album by Nine Inch Nails, its story takes place in 2022 A.D., which in America is referred to as 0000 B.A. (Born Again) after several cataclysmic events.
Theatre
Video games
- The events of the video game Cyberball (1988) take place in the year 2022[4]
- Perfect Dark (Game Boy Color) (2000).
- The fictional video game Sword Art Online (2009), from the Japanese light novel series of the same name, is launched at 13:00 on 6 November 2022.
References
- ^ "Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022". BBC News. May 30, 2011.
- ^ "Comet Breakup Points to Possible Meteor Shower in 2022". Space.com. May 10, 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Jonathan Amos (May 2, 2012). "Esa selects 1bn-euro Juice probe to Jupiter". BBC News Online. BBC. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ^ "Cyberball Arcade Flyer". The Arcade Flyer Archive. The Arcade Flyer Archive. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
