2042

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2039 2040 2041 – 2042 – 2043 2044 2045

2042 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

Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league

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 – 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

2042 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2042 MMXLII
Ab urbe condita	2795
Armenian calendar	1491 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԱ
Assyrian calendar	6792
Bahá'í calendar	198–199
Bengali calendar	1449
Berber calendar	2992
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2586
Burmese calendar	1404
Byzantine calendar	7550–7551
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4738 or 4678     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4739 or 4679
Coptic calendar	1758–1759
Discordian calendar	3208
Ethiopian calendar	2034–2035
Hebrew calendar	5802–5803
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2098–2099
- Shaka Samvat	1964–1965
- Kali Yuga	5143–5144
Holocene calendar	12042
Igbo calendar	1042–1043
Iranian calendar	1420–1421
Islamic calendar	1464–1465
Japanese calendar	Heisei 54 (平成５４年)
Juche calendar	131
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4375
Minguo calendar	ROC 131 民國131年
Thai solar calendar	2585
Unix time	2272147200–2303683199

2042 (MMXLII) will be a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2042nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 42nd year of the 3rd millennium, the 42nd year of the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• April 30 – A Nickelodeon time capsule, sealed in April 1992, will be opened.^[1]
• September 17 – A common computing representation of date and time on IBM mainframe systems will overflow with potential results similar to the year 2000 problem.

Date unknown

• According to the United States Census Bureau, U.S. residents who identify themselves as being Hispanic or Latino, African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American will collectively outnumber those who identify as being white of non-Hispanic origin.^[2]

In fiction

• On the ABC series Defying Gravity, the mission to Mars took place in this year, ten years before the Antares Mission in 2052.
• The Japanese version of Snatcher, a graphic adventure game originally released in 1988, is set in December 2042. The English localization of Snatcher moved the setting to 2047.
• Under a Killing Moon, a graphic adventure game released in 1994 is set in December 2042.
• Paul Levinson's The Plot to Save Socrates starts in 2042, from which the novel's time traveling characters embark on what the title says.

In popular culture

• Waiting for 2042, a 2014 debut comedy album by Hari Kondabolu^[3]

References

1. Crezo, Adrienne (June 25, 2012). "Every item inside time capsule Nickelodeon buried in 1992". Mental Floss. Mental Floss, Inc. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
2. Ortman, Jennifer M.; Guarneri, Christine E. (2009), "United States Population Projections: 2000 to 2050" (PDF), 2009 National Population Projections (PDF) (United States of America: United States Census Bureau), retrieved February 16, 2010.
3. "Comedy Listings for March 14-20". The New York Times. March 13, 2014.