2015

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2015 by topic:

News by month

Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

Arts

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music (Country, UK) - Film - Television - Home video

Politics

Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders - Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology - Meteorology - Rail transport - Science - Spaceflight

Sports

Sport - Australian Football League - Baseball - Football (soccer) - Ice Hockey - Motor Racing - Tennis

By place

Africa - Argentina - Australia - Canada - Denmark - India - Iraq - Ireland - Japan - Luxembourg - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Philippines - Singapore - South Africa - Switzerland - United Kingdom -Wales - Zimbabwe

Other topics

Deaths - Awards - Gay rights - Games - Law - Religious leaders - Video gaming

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Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Predicted events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 April 1.6 May 1.7 June 1.8 July 1.9 August 1.10 September 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown dates 2 2015 in fiction 2.1 Computer and video games 2.2 Film 2.3 Television 2.4 Media franchises

Predicted events

January

• January 1 - Copyright on Edvard Munch's complete works terminates.

February

• February 1 - Super Bowl XLIX

March

• March 12 - John Titor suggests "avoiding Washington DC" at approximately 3:45am, March 12, 2015. This is assumed to be the time of "N-Day" in which Russia launches a nuclear attack on the United States, Europe and China in support of one faction in a second U.S. civil war.
• March 14 - At 54 seconds past 9:26 am; the date and time (3/14/15 9:26:54) will make the first 10 digits of pi rounded to the last digit, using American date formatting.
• March 15 - 100th Anniversary of the formation of Universal Pictures.
• March 20 - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

April

• April 24 - 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire and currently, not recognized by Turkey

April

• April 25 - 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli during WWI.

May

• May 7 - Election of Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly occurs.
• May 7 - 100th anniversary of the sinking of the British liner RMS Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.

June

• June 18 - The 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

July

• July 7 - The 10th anniversary of the July 7th bombings in London.
• July 14 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.

August

• August 9 - 50th year of Singapore independence
• August 17- 70th year of Indonesia independence

September

• September 9 - On this date, if Queen Elizabeth II is still queen, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
• September 13 - Partial solar eclipse.

November

• November 20 - The bicentenary of the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

December

• December 31 - Copyright on Hitler's Mein Kampf terminates.
• December 31 - RadioShack's 2005 deal with Cingular Wireless terminates.

Unknown dates

• All 192 United Nations member states have agreed to aim toward achieving the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals by this year.
• The first plasma operation of the fusion power reactor ITER is expected.
• One of the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers will enter service, possibly named HMS Prince of Wales
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission the USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
• The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC.
• The rolling stock of the Tyne and Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system - possibly incorporating street-running trams.
• Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year. ^{[citation needed]}
• Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
• DARPA wishes to have one third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.

2015 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
• Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.

Film

• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
  • Anti-gravity devices will be very common, being used even in family cars and skateboards, as will windows that project a false landscape and shoes that tighten themselves.
  • Queen Diana visits Washington, D.C. (in reality she will be 18 years dead by this year).
  • The Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a Miami-based team.
  • The President of the United States will be a female.
  • Jaws 19, directed by Max Spielberg, is in theatres.
  • The original World Trade Center still exists (a shot of the twin towers is seen on "The Scenery Channel", a Hill Valley tv station).

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995-1996)
• Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
• Space: Above and Beyond (1995-1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon, a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"

Media franchises

• .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp iss able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

Preceded by: 2014

Years 2015

Succeeded by: 2016