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- For the film, see 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
| Years: 2007 2008 2009 - 2010 - 2011 2012 2013 | |
| Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s - 2010s - 2020s 2030s 2040s | |
| Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century | |
2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It is expected to be pronounced with two-digit intervals, as "twenty ten" (20-10), as were years prior to and including 1999. This would end the current 21st century pronunciation preference, "two thousand ____". (See Year pronunciation). However, it is not improper to pronounce 2010 as "two thousand ten", as many people might still do so and are pronouncing it that way right now.
- It is the year of the Tiger in Chinese Astrology.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 - Czech Republic and Hungary are set to adopt the Euro
- January 10 - Deadline for the America's Space Prize for private manned orbital spaceflight.
- January 15 - Annular solar eclipse (The longest lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century.)
February
- February 12 to February 28 - 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to be in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
- February 7 - Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida
March
April
- April 1 - U.S. Census
- April 3 to April 5 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- April 9 - It is projected that on this day the world population will reach 7 billion.
May
- Designated date of Philippine National Elections
- May 1 to October 30 - 2010 World's Fair in Shanghai.
- The final film of the seven in the Harry Potter series is planned to be released around May 2010.
June
- June 3 - This is the latest date the next UK general election can be held.
- June 6 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 28' south. First conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
- June 23 - One hundredth birthday of Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which will have over 13 million members at this time.
July
- July 11 - Total solar eclipse (visible only in the South Pacific (esp. Easter Island) and southern South America).
August
September
- September 16 - 200th aniversary of México's independence.
- September 18 - 200th aniversary of Chile's independence.
- September 22 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Uranus, Jupiter 53' south. Second conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Uranus.
October
- October 3-14 - The 2010 Commonwealth Games will be held in Delhi, India.
- All-Russia population census is scheduled.
November
- November 2 - Elections for the United States Congress
- November 12 to November 27 - 16th Asian Games, Guangzhou,China
December
- December 21-Total lunar eclipse
- December 28- New U.S. Army Assault Rifle is Introduced.
- December 31- Howard Stern's current contract with Sirius expires.
Unknown dates
- NASA's Dawn space probe scheduled to arrive at Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the the asteroid belt
- Sometime in April (unknown) - The International Space Station construction is expected to be completed.
- Sometime during Philippine summer ( April-June ), National Elections.
- Summer July BSA National Jamboree, Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia - Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the BSA.
- The Space Shuttle Discovery will retire.
- The first phase of the extension to the East London Line of the London Underground is scheduled for completion.
- General Motors is confident that it can produce a commercially viable model of its concept car, the Hy-wire, by this year.
- FIFA World Cup 2010 scheduled to be held in South Africa.
- A new bridge of the Robert Moses Causeway is set to be constructed next to the decomposing Fire Island Inlet span in Long Island, NY.
- Peak Oil said to occur.
- June is the latest possible month for the next United Kingdom general election
- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is due to begin replacing the A-10 Warthog and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
- The Airbus A350 is planned to start service.
- A new casino/hotel called Echelon Place in Las Vegas, Nevada is scheduled to open.
- The Cityrail Rail Clearways project is expected to be completed.
- Israel by this year will have completed its Security Barrier and will use it as the basis for the definitive border between Israel and Palestine, according to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, as reported 03/10/2006 by the Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and other news media. All Israeli settlements not protected by the barrier will have been evacuated.
- Experts predict the year 2010 will see major advances in Artificial Intelligence, Bionics, Cloning, Computers and Robotics.
Fiction
- An episode of Stargate SG-1, entitled "2010", takes place in this year.
- The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding" takes place in 2010.
- Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two (1984), filmed in the same year as 2010: The Year We Make Contact, is set in 2010. The film's depiction of a USSR and USA still fighting the Cold War is now considerably out of date. The novel, unlike the movie, offers a view of USA-USSR harmony and co-operation. However, it also shows Andrei Sakharov as leader of the USSR, which now can never be a reality. The scenario (in both book and film) of human flights to Jupiter by 2010 seems extremely unlikely at present (2006).
- The computer game Uplink takes place in this year.
- The events of Knight Rider 2010 take place.
- War breaks out between Yuktobania and Osea in September 2010 in the video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, ending on New Year's Eve.
- In the television show Macross, the Earth is decimated in 2010 by the Zentradi in a final attack that also ends in the defeat of the Zentradi fleet.
- The third season of Transformers G1 takes place in 2010.
- If it is still in production, the drama series Law & Order will match the record set by Gunsmoke as the longest-running American prime time dramatic series (20 years).
- In the 1990s sit-com Roseanne, a future scene takes place in an episode in 2010 with Jackie reading a newspaper with the headline Chicago Cubs will win the World Series in this year and they say that DJ is promoted.
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