2047
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| Centuries: | 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century |
| Decades: | 2010s 2020s 2030s - 2040s - 2050s 2060s 2070s |
| Years: | 2044 2045 2046 - 2047 - 2048 2049 2050 |
| Gregorian calendar | 2047 MMXLVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2800 |
| Armenian calendar | 1496 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | 203 – 204 |
| Berber calendar | 2997 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2591 |
| Burmese calendar | 1409 |
| Chinese calendar | 4683/4743 (丙寅年) — to —
4684/4744(丁卯年) |
| Coptic calendar | 1763 – 1764 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2039 – 2040 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5807 – 5808 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2102 – 2103 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1969 – 1970 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5148 – 5149 |
| Holocene calendar | 12047 |
| Iranian calendar | 1425 – 1426 |
| Islamic calendar | 1469 – 1470 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 59 (平成59年) |
| Korean calendar | 4380 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2590 |
| Unix time | 2429913600 – 2461449599 |
2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
[edit] Predicted and scheduled events
- July — A METI message called Teen Age Message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, 47 UMa star.
- July 1 — The present "one country, two systems" in Hong Kong is scheduled to 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. See also the transcript of Deng's dialogue with Margaret Thatcher: [1].
- July 24 - The official Bicentennial of the founding of Salt Lake City. Major celebrations are planned by the city, by the state of Utah, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- August 17 — Assuming no further changes to the United States copyright law, music by Elvis Presley enters the public domain.
- 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.
[edit] Predictions
- In the movie An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore says global warming will be a major effect.
Much or even all of the Arctic Ice Cap will have melted, and the Polar Bear will probably be extinct in the wild.
[edit] Fictional events
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- 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.
- In Snatcher, a cyberpunk-themed videogame, the story takes place in Dec 2047.

