22nd century
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The 22nd century (Gregorian calendar) will comprise the years 2101-2200.
Astronomical predictions for the 22nd century
- There will be 239 lunar eclipses
- A total solar eclipse exceeding 7 minutes of totality will occur on June 25, 2150. This will be the first time this has happened in 177 years, but eclipse fans will not have to wait nearly so long for it to happen again —on July 5, 2168 an eclipse with 7 min 26 s of totality will occur, and on July 16, 2186 an eclipse of 7 min 29 s (close to the theoretical maximum) will occur. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the 8,000 year period from 3000 BCE to CE 5000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC.DEPP).
- August, 2113: First time Pluto reaches Aphelion since its discovery.
- December 11, 2117: Transit of Venus
- 2123: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
- September 14, 2123: At 15:28 UTC, Venus will occult Jupiter
- December 8, 2125: Transit of Venus
- July 29, 2126: At 16:08 UTC, Mercury will occult Mars
- March 10, 2130: At 07:32 UTC, Sun passes through solar-system barycenter
- December 3, 2133: At 14:14 UTC, Mercury will occult Venus
- 2134: Comet Halley will return to the inner solar system
- 2148: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
- 2170: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
- Given that Pluto's orbit is approximately 248 Earth years, the year 2178 will mark the first Plutonian anniversary of the dwarf planet's discovery (according to the The International Astronomical Union, Pluto is no longer a planet)
- 2185: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
- 2187: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
- September 2, 2197: Venus occults Spica (last occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10, 1783)
Science fiction set in the 22nd century
Literature (novels, short stories, comics)
Television and film
- The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
- The first Alien film takes place in 2122 according to the Alien Universe Timeline. The sequels Aliens and Alien 3 both take place in 2179.
- Bicentennial Man, about half the events of this movie take place here
- Due to the time-travel nature of its stories, Doctor Who has taken place at various points during the 22nd century.
- Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, a film adaptation based on the 2nd Doctor Who TV story to feature the Daleks.
- Gundam Wing takes place in 2166 (AC 195).
- Mobile Suit Gundam, a Japanese anime television series. It is known that the UC timeline begins in 2081. This would place the One Year War (UC 0079) occurring in 2159.
- Gundam X, an alternate universe "what-if" of Mobile Suit Gundam where the Earth Federation lost the One Year War (called the Seventh Space War in GX), takes place in 2174, assuming the Seventh Space War took place at the same time as the One Year War.
- Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161).
- DT Eightron, an anime set on the year 2187.
- Phil of the Future, a Disney Channel series. (Diffys are from this era (2121) before they crash in 2004; theme song refers to Phil as a "22nd Century man").
- Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series with Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction setting
- Space Battleship Yamato was launched on October 9, 2199 on its desperate mission to save the earth in the Anime series of the same name.
- Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2161). The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the Klingons, Andorians, and Romulans. According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people. Enterprise is decommissioned in 2161, just prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets.
- According to Star Trek, the Earth-Romulan War will be fought between 2156 and 2160, which results in the establishment of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet on October 11, 2161. Star Trek also predicts human colonization of Mars by 2103.
- The Matrix, a science fiction cult movie, in which the protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a reality is in fact computer simulation. Morpheus, another character of the movie, identifies the events of the movie as being set in the years around 2199. However, it should be noted that it was mentioned in the film Matrix Reloaded that the movie took place in the 6th incarnation of The Matrix, meaning that the movie actually took place far further in the future than was originally believed.
- In Babylon 5, the Foundationism religion was started in the year 2157.
- The animated television series Exosquad is apparently set in the late 2110s.
- On The Time Warp Trio (TV series) Joe, Sam, and Fred meet Jodie, Samantha, and Freddi at September 17, 2105. (Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha are Joe, Fred and Sam's great-granddaughters).
- In Doctor Who it was around 2164 that the Daleks invaded Earth.
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fight future crime in the year 2105 in the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
- In A.I. (film), a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence (called mechas, short for "mechanisms," i.e. synthetic life) have become commonplace.
- In the show Married... with Children, Al predicts that by 2157, he will have his first and second mortgage paid allowing him to retire.
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card takes place around 2135 AD.
- The SciFi Channel series FTL Newsfeed begins in the year 2142.
- The Flipside of Dominick Hide is set in 2130.
Video games
Other
- Reich Star An RPG which takes place in 2134, it was published by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson (1991) under the name of "Creative Encounters"
- 22nd Century is also an Alternative Punk Rock band from Vancouver, Canada.
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