2040

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2037 2038 2039 – 2040 – 2041 2042 2043

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2040 (MMXL) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2040th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 40th year of the 3rd millennium, the 40th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2040s decade.

January

• January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1944 will enter the public domain in the United States.

February

• February 6 – Early Macintosh computers cannot recognise dates after this day.

May

• May 2 – Partial solar eclipse

September

• September 8 – Major alignment of the planets

November

• November 4 – Partial solar eclipse

Unknown Dates

• 2040 Summer Olympics will be held.
• Tuas Port in Singapore, the first fully automated container ship terminal in the world, will be completed and operational.
• If the United States had not returned land for bases on Bermuda in 2002, a ninety-nine year lease (signed in 1941) would have expired.

Fictional events

• The anime series Macross Plus and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are both set in this year.
• In the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the television becomes obsolete.
• A collection of Doctor Who short stories, Short Trips, is also set in that year.