2026

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2023 2024 2025 – 2026 – 2027 2028 2029

2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted and scheduled events

November

• November 13 – Heinz von Foerster's predicted technological (or rather demographic) singularity occurs.

Date unknown

• Automatic mission to Mars as proposed in the Aurora Programme
• Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.
• Onboard plutonium generators delivering heat and electricity to Mars Science Laboratory will run out.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)

Movies

• Metropolis (1927)

Literature

• "There Will Come Soft Rains", a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.
• "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.

Television

• seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.
• Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.
• Fringe episode "The Day We Died" (2011): Peter travels to this year when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.