2047

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
Balinese saka calendar	1968–1969
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	1968–1969
- Kali Yuga	5147–5148
Holocene calendar	12047
Igbo calendar	1047–1048
Iranian calendar	1425–1426
Islamic calendar	1469–1470
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 29 (令和２９年)
Javanese calendar	1981–1982
Juche calendar	136
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4380
Minguo calendar	ROC 136 民國136年
Nanakshahi calendar	579
Thai solar calendar	2590
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Tiger) 2173 or 1792 or 1020     — to — མེ་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Fire-Hare) 2174 or 1793 or 1021
Unix time	2429913600 – 2461449599

2047 (MMXLVII) will be a common year starting on Tuesday 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 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1951 will enter the public domain in the United States.

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.

August

• August 14 – Pakistan celebrates its 100th Independence Day.
• August 15 – India celebrates its 100th Independence Day.

September

• September 8 – if still alive and on the throne, Charles III of the United Kingdom will celebrate his Silver Jubilee. He would be 97 years old at the time.

December

• December 31 – After this date, works published between January 1, 1978 and December 31, 2002, including Films (1978-2002), TV series (1965-1977 and 1978-2002) and sound recordings (1978-2002) 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 Archived 2011-05-06 at the Wayback Machine 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, an 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