2040

2040 (MMXL) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2040th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 40th year of the 3rd millennium, the 40th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2040s decade.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2037 2038 2039 – 2040 – 2041 2042 2043

2040 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2040 MMXL
Ab urbe condita	2793
Armenian calendar	1489 ԹՎ ՌՆՁԹ
Assyrian calendar	6790
Bahá'í calendar	196–197
Balinese saka calendar	1961–1962
Bengali calendar	1447
Berber calendar	2990
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2584
Burmese calendar	1402
Byzantine calendar	7548–7549
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 4736 or 4676     — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 4737 or 4677
Coptic calendar	1756–1757
Discordian calendar	3206
Ethiopian calendar	2032–2033
Hebrew calendar	5800–5801
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2096–2097
- Shaka Samvat	1961–1962
- Kali Yuga	5140–5141
Holocene calendar	12040
Igbo calendar	1040–1041
Iranian calendar	1418–1419
Islamic calendar	1461–1462
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 22 (令和２２年)
Javanese calendar	1973–1974
Juche calendar	129
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4373
Minguo calendar	ROC 129 民國129年
Nanakshahi calendar	572
Thai solar calendar	2583
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ལུག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Sheep) 2166 or 1785 or 1013     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་སྤྲེ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Monkey) 2167 or 1786 or 1014
Unix time	2208988800 – 2240611199

Predicted events

January

• January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1944 will enter the public domain in the United States.

February

• February 6 – Early Macintosh computers cannot recognise dates after this day.

May

• May 2 – Partial solar eclipse

September

• September 8 – Major alignment of the planets

November

• November 4 – Partial solar eclipse

Unknown Dates

• 2040 Summer Olympics will be held.
• Tuas Port in Singapore, the first fully automated container ship terminal in the world, will be completed and operational.^[1]
• If the United States had not returned land for bases on Bermuda in 2002, a ninety-nine year lease (signed in 1941) would have expired.

Fictional events

• The anime series Macross Plus and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are both set in this year.
• In the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the television becomes obsolete.
• A collection of Doctor Who short stories, Short Trips, is also set in that year.