2045

2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2045th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 45th year of the 3rd millennium, the 45th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2040s decade.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2042 2043 2044 – 2045 – 2046 2047 2048

2045 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2045 MMXLV
Ab urbe condita	2798
Armenian calendar	1494 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԴ
Assyrian calendar	6795
Bahá'í calendar	201–202
Balinese saka calendar	1966–1967
Bengali calendar	1452
Berber calendar	2995
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2589
Burmese calendar	1407
Byzantine calendar	7553–7554
Chinese calendar	甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4741 or 4681     — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4742 or 4682
Coptic calendar	1761–1762
Discordian calendar	3211
Ethiopian calendar	2037–2038
Hebrew calendar	5805–5806
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2101–2102
- Shaka Samvat	1966–1967
- Kali Yuga	5145–5146
Holocene calendar	12045
Igbo calendar	1045–1046
Iranian calendar	1423–1424
Islamic calendar	1467–1468
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 27 (令和２７年)
Javanese calendar	1979–1980
Juche calendar	134
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4378
Minguo calendar	ROC 134 民國134年
Nanakshahi calendar	577
Thai solar calendar	2588
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Rat) 2171 or 1790 or 1018     — to — ཤིང་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Wood-Ox) 2172 or 1791 or 1019
Unix time	2366841600 – 2398377599

Predicted and scheduled events

• January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1949 will enter the public domain in the United States.
• June 15 - 100th anniversary of the ABC News.
• August 12 – A solar eclipse will occur from northern California to Florida.
• October 24 – 100th anniversary of the United Nations

Date unknown

• Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts a technological singularity for 2045, i.e. a runaway cycle of self-improvement by intelligent machines, resulting in explosive technological development.^[1]
• Based on Ray Kurzweil's ideas, Time magazine predicts humans will be immortal by this year.^[2]
• Demographic projections "foresee the population of Egypt overtaking that of Russia by 2045," according to Niall Ferguson.^[3]
• Two of Japan's largest cities - Tokyo and Osaka - will be connected by a direct high-speed maglev route.^[4]
• The United Kingdom is set to overtake Germany as Europe's leading economy.^[5]

In fiction

• In the novel 2045: A Story of Our Future, Peter Seidel portrays what the world could be like in 2045, if current trends in environmental destruction, population growth, and economic inequality continue.
• Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
• In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
• The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.
• The events portrayed in the movie Critters 4 take place in 2045.
• Time in History where Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, the 3rd Tiberium War takes place.
• In Macross 7, The main events of the series take place in this year.
• Doomsday in Angels & Airwaves movie L)VE (LOVE)