24th century

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The 24th century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises the years 2301-2400. Unlike most century years, the year 2400 will be a leap year.

Astronomical events

• September 11, 2307: At 22:50 UTC, Venus will occult Uranus
• 2313: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
• 2319: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
• June 4, 2327: At 00:54 UTC, Venus will occult Mars
• October 8, 2335: At 14:51 UTC, Venus will occult Jupiter
• April 7, 2351: At 17:22 UTC, Mercury will occult Uranus
• December 10, 2368: Transit of Venus
• 2388: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
• May 11, 2391 - Partial transit of Mercury
• November 17, 2400: Venus will occult Antares (last occultation of Antares by Venus was on September 17, 525 BC)

Quincentennials

The 24th century will see some important quincentennials, or 500th anniversaries. These will include:

• 2305, Death of Horatio Nelson
• 2306, Birth of Benito Juárez
• 2321, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama independence from Spain
• 2322, Brazil - independence from Portugal
• 2361, American Civil War
• 2367, Canadian Confederation
• 2370, Birth of Vladimir Lenin
• 2378, Birth of Josef Stalin
• 2385, Invention of the automobile
• 2389, Birth of Adolf Hitler
• 2393, Birth of Mao Zedong
• 2395, Invention of the cinematographer

Science fiction set in the 24th century

Television

• Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century (circa 2350)
• In the episode Attack of Big MACC in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, the "thinking" robot MACC leaves his time (2390) and time travels back to the late 1980s. MACC later returns to his own time after helping the TMNT fighting Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (circa 2364-2370)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (circa 2369-2375)
• Tom Corbett, Space Cadet is active in the year 2352.
• Star Trek: Voyager (circa 2371-2378)
• The apocalyptic Space Runaway Ideon occurs in the 24th century. It is an anime series made in 1980, and is quite famous in Japan.
• In Futurama 2303 is the year that the Monks started looking for God through their giant Telescope.
• In Jimmy Timmy 3, AJ planned to freeze himself to go to the 24th century.

Movies

• Star Trek: Generations (circa 2371)
• Star Trek: First Contact (circa 2373)
• Star Trek: Insurrection (circa 2375)
• Star Trek: Nemesis (circa 2379)
• Forbidden Planet (circa 2381)

Computer games

• The FreeSpace Series, a sci-fi space starfighter sim, takes place from 2335 to 2367
• Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, a large-scale spacecraft game, takes place in years 2378 and 2393
• The Journeyman Project, a computer game, set in 2318
• Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri takes place in 2327, usually referred to as ClanYear 124, in the date system used by the Clans inhabiting Alpha Centauri.
• Unreal Tournament series, a first-person shooter (circa 2341-2362)
• Mega Man Zero takes place sometime after 2302, but officially takes place in 22XX, at least four years earlier.
• Any Star Trek games taking place in the general timeline of the previously described television series.

Other games

In the Star Fleet Universe, Y1 - the year of First Contact between humanity and the Vulcans, has been postulated as occurring in 2400, although the Star Trek: First Contact movie previously mentioned identifies the year of first contact as 2063.

Books

• The temporal setting of Brave New World can be mathematically calculated from dates given in the book to be the year 2349 (in the book it is referred to as A.F. 632, the 632nd year since the start of industrialization, and the 214th year since the first Ford Model T came off the assembly line).

Decades and years

External links

• 24th century article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.