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2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
Calendar yearPredicted and scheduled events
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- Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
- London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.
- The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
- Due to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, assuming that there are no further changes in copyright law in the United States, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie as well as two other Mickey Mouse short films released in 1928 will fall into the public domain in the United States.
- According to words of Turkey's president (formerly a prime minister) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, if the countries of the European Union won't accept Turkey as a member before the year 2023, Turkey would no longer be a candidate to the union.
In fiction
Computer and video games
- Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball (1991)
- Perfect Dark (2000)
- Crysis 2 (2011) The events of this game are set in a post-apocalypse New York City in warfare with aliens.
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015)
Film
- Gunbuster (1988)
- Click (2006): Michael Newman uses his remote control and is unwillingly sent to 2023, among other years.
- Doomsday (2008): briefly mentions the extension of the Thames Barrier due to torrential floods in 2023
- 2023 (2009) Norwegian shortfilm.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014): In the Future, Sentinels have been created to hunt down Mutants. They eventually begin targeting Humans with a strong possibility to have mutant children and humans who help the mutants. A majority of the world's population has been killed. From here, the X-Men project Wolverine back to 1973 to prevent Sentinels from ever being created, saving all of mankind in the process.
- The Purge: Anarchy (2014): The events of the film take place a year after the 2022 Purge.
Television
- Quarantine (The Twilight Zone) (1986): Matthew Forman is put into cold sleep on June 18, 2023, in the hopes that his inoperable cancer can be cured in the future.
- Silent Mobius (1991)
- Batman Beyond (1999): Terry McGinnis to be born on August 18.
- Burn Up Scramble (2004)
- The Last Man on Earth (2015): In episode 3 of season 2 it is revealed at Gordon's funeral, that the show is set in 2023.
Literature
- The Carnival of Immortals (1980) by Enki Bilal.
- The Woman Trap (1986) by Enki Bilal.
- Equator Cold (1992) by Enki Bilal.
- Killing Time (2000) by Caleb Carr.
- The Free Lunch (2001) by Spider Robinson
References
- "Better roads, rail travel and new river crossings in spending boost for London | Politics | News | London Evening Standard". Thisislondon.co.uk. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Archived 2008-12-07 at the Wayback Machine