2047

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2044 2045 2046 – 2047 – 2048 2049 2050

2047 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 – 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

2047 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2047 MMXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2800
Armenian calendar	1496 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6797
Bahá'í calendar	203–204
Bengali calendar	1454
Berber calendar	2997
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2591
Burmese calendar	1409
Byzantine calendar	7555–7556
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4743 or 4683     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4744 or 4684
Coptic calendar	1763–1764
Discordian calendar	3213
Ethiopian calendar	2039–2040
Hebrew calendar	5807–5808
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2103–2104
- Shaka Samvat	1969–1970
- Kali Yuga	5148–5149
Holocene calendar	12047
Igbo calendar	1047–1048
Iranian calendar	1425–1426
Islamic calendar	1469–1470
Japanese calendar	Heisei 59 (平成５９年)
Juche calendar	136
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4380
Minguo calendar	ROC 136 民國136年
Thai solar calendar	2590
Unix time	2429913600–2461449599

2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2047th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 47th year of the 3rd millennium, the 47th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

• January 12 – A total lunar eclipse will take place.

July

• July – A METI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar will arrive at its destination, 47 UMa star.
• July 1 – The present "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong may end, as it was guaranteed for 50 years starting from July 1, 1997, provided under the Hong Kong Basic Law. The agreement was raised by Deng Xiaoping to deal with Hong Kong's reunification with the People's Republic of China in 1997, and stipulated in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. What will be done is not stated in any document.^[1]
• July 7 – A total lunar eclipse will take place.

December

• December 31 – After this date, works published between January 1, 1978 and December 31, 2002 have the possibility of entering the public domain in the United States. U.S. copyright law specifically prohibits any work created during that period from automatically entering the public domain before this date.

In fiction

• In the Command and Conquer universe, the Third Tiberium War is started when the Brotherhood of Nod destroys the Global Defense Initiative's orbital command centre, the Philadelphia, using a nuclear missile.
• In the Star Trek universe the city of Los Angeles is struck by the Hermosa Earthquake causing parts of the city to fall into the sea.
• In Event Horizon (film), a search-and-rescue team is sent to a decaying space ship orbiting Neptune where an unimaginable horror awaits them.
• The English localization of Snatcher for the Sega CD, a comic cyberpunk adventure game originally released in Japan for various platforms, moved the setting from 2042 to 2047.
• In the SimCity video game, floodings hit Rio de Janeiro due to global warming.
• A Balkanized India enters a water war in the Postcyberpunk Hugo award winning novel River of Gods by Ian McDonald
• Voices of a Distant Star, a Japanese anime, is set in 2047.
• Crysis 3 is set in this year, where an enormous dome is placed over New York City to stop the expansion of the Ceph. Inside, the abandoned city is overrun with vegetation and the alien invaders. The game's protagonist, Alcatraz, has remained in the city ever since the end of Crysis 2

References

1. See also the transcript of Deng's dialogue with Margaret Thatcher.