2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
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Predicted and scheduled events
edit- January 8 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will take place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.[1][2]
- January 13
- The 2025 Winter World University Games will take place in Turin, Italy.
- Comet C/2024 G3, if it survives perihelion, could brighten to magnitude -2.0 or higher and reach naked-eye visibility.[3]
- January 23 – Same-sex marriage will officially become legal in Thailand.[4]
- February 9
- The 2025 Ecuadorian general election is scheduled to be held.
- The 2025 Liechtenstein general election is scheduled to be held.
- March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.[5]
- March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is planned to be introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[6]
- April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[7]
- May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled to be held.[8]
- May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is scheduled to be held in Basel, Switzerland.[9]
- May 18 – The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held; incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election.
- May 24 – 2025 Australian federal election: Latest possible date for a simultaneous House and half-Senate election. If the elections are held separately, the House election could be as late as September 27, but it's unlikely there would be separate elections for the House and half-Senate.
- June 15 – July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in the United States.
- July 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone.[10]
- July 11 – August 3 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships will take place in Singapore.
- July 16–27 – The 2025 Summer World University Games will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany.
- August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games will take place in Chengdu, China.
- August 17 – The 2025 Bolivian general election is scheduled to be held.
- September – Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972 and second mission of the Artemis Program, is scheduled to launch no earlier than September 2025.
- September 8 – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.
- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan.
- September 28 – The 2025 German federal election is scheduled to be held, but may be held on February 23 as a result of the 2024 German government crisis.
- October 14 – Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 which started in July 2015.[11]
- October 26 – The 2025 Argentine legislative election is scheduled to be held.
- November 23 – The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.
Date unknown
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- If not triggered earlier, the 45th Canadian federal election will be held no later than October 20.[12]
- If not triggered earlier, the next Singaporean general election will be held no later than November 23, with the current Parliament to be dissolved no later than August 24.
- The First Esports Olympics in 2025 will be held in Saudi Arabia.
- June – The next Albanian parliamentary election will be held.
- October – The next Czech parliamentary election will be held.
- An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church at Nicaea is scheduled to be held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[13]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[14][15]
- South Africa will host the G20 summit, the first nation in Africa to do so.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "2025 IHF Men's Handball World Championship". visitnorway.com. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Host cities and schedule announced for the 2025 IHF Men's World Championship". International Handball Federation. April 8, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "C/2024 G3 (ATLAS): Brightest Comet of 2025?". starwalk.space. June 14, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "มท. เตรียมความพร้อม "จดทะเบียนสมรสเท่าเทียม" กฎหมายเริ่มใช้บังคับ 23 ม.ค. 68". Thairath Online (in Thai). Retrieved September 26, 2024.
- ^ "Nomination open for Torino 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games". Special Olympics Great Britain. December 12, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Willemstad: Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- ^ "COMELEC Guide: How to register for 2025 Philippine Elections". assistance.ph. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Basel 2025". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ "The National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill for the introduction of the euro in the Republic of Bulgaria". Sofia, Bulgaria: National Assembly. July 26, 2024.
- ^ GitHub-Name. "Windows 10 Home and Pro - Microsoft Lifecycle". learn.microsoft.com. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ "An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act". LegisINFO. May 3, 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
- ^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- ^ "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Archived from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020.