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

Predicted events

March

• March 20 - Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

July

• July 1 - Earth, Venus and Jupiter will be ordered on a single line.
• 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.
• July 17 - Analogue television will be switched off in Ukraine.

September

• September 9 - Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
• September 13 - Partial solar eclipse.

December

• December 31 - Millennium Development Goals are targeted for achievement.
• December 31 - Microcredit Summit Campaign goals are targeted for achievement.
• December 31 - Analogue television will be switched off in the Philippines.

Unknown dates

• Analogue television will be switched off in the Russian Federation.[1]
• The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
• Target date for OECD countries to raise aid levels to 0.7% of Gross Domestic Product, as per the Paris Agreement.
• The United States Navy will commission 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.
• Crossrail in London, United Kingdom's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
• The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project will 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.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
• The Rugby World Cup will be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
• Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
• Cricket World Cup will be played in Australia and New Zealand.
• The Voyager 1 space probe will reach the heliopause.
• Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf enters the public domain.
• NASA Solar Probe, will orbit the Sun
• ESA Solar Orbiter (SOLO), will orbit the Sun to perform close observations of the polar regions of the Sun
• NASA New Horizons: Pluto flyby, then will leave the Solar System
• New Songdo City, South Korea, a high-tech planned city of 65,000 is scheduled for completion. ^[1]
• Completion of the Kwun Tong Line extention and East-West line of the Hong Kong MTR.

2015 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.^{citation needed}
• 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.
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.
• Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass are set in this year.

Film

• Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the film Back to the Future Part II. According to a holographic newscast, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a team from Miami. Inventions also include flying cars, self-fitting clothes and shoes, as well as hover-boards (a device similar to the skateboard.)
• Event Horizon: The first permanent colony will be established on the Moon.

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The mysterious entities known as Angels reappear on Earth after a 15-year absence.
• 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 in the episode "Angry Dick", 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 is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

Other fictions

• John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that World War III would begin during 2015 on his world line.