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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Japanese era name. ... The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ... The traditional Korean calendar is directly derived from the Asian calendar. ... The Thai solar, or Suriyakati (สุริยคติ), calendar is used in traditional and official contexts in Thailand, although the Western calendar is sometimes used in business. ... Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. ... This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D). ... For the calendar of religious holidays and periods, see liturgical year. ...

Predicted events

February

• February 1 — Super Bowl XLIX

is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Super Bowl XLIX will be the 49th Super Bowl, the annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL) between the National Football Conference (NFC) and American Football Conference (AFC) champions. ...

March

• March 20 — Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Photo taken during the 1999 eclipse. ... The Atlantic Ocean, not including Arctic and Antarctic regions. ...

July

• July 1 — Earth, Venus and Jupiter will be ordered on a single line.
• July 14 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.

is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... For other uses, see Venus (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Jupiter (disambiguation). ... is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (IPA [ˈnæsə]) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nations public space program. ... New Horizons on the launchpad New Horizons is a robotic spacecraft mission conducted by NASA. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra. ... For other uses, see Pluto (disambiguation). ... Charon (shair-ən or kair-ən (key), IPA , Greek Χάρων), discovered in 1978, is, depending on the definition employed, either the largest moon of Pluto or one member of a double dwarf planet with Pluto being the other member. ... New Horizons on the launchpad New Horizons is a robotic spacecraft mission conducted by NASA. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra. ... The Kuiper belt, derived from data from the Minor Planet Center. ... This article is about the Solar System. ...

August

• August 9 - Singapore will be having its 50 years of independence.

is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

September

• September 9 — On this date, if Queen Elizabeth II is still queen, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
• September 11 — 14th anniversary to the September 11 attacks
• September 13 — Partial solar eclipse.
• September 21 — International Day of Peace (United Nations)

is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Queen Victoria redirects here. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The International Day of Peace was established by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly to be the third Tuesday of September every year and devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace, as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and... UN and U.N. redirect here. ...

December

• December 31 — Millennium Development Goals are targeted for achievement
• December 31 — Microcredit Summit Campaign goals are targeted for achievement

is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Millenium Development Goals The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 192 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Microcredit Summit Campaign is the civil-society initiative that was born out of the first Microcredit Summit. ...

Unknown dates

• China is expected to overtake Japan as the 2nd largest economy in the world.
• The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
• The United States Navy is scheduled to commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
• Crossrail in London, United Kingdom's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
• The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC.
• The rolling stock of the Tyne and Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system — possibly incorporating street-running trams.
• Hydrogen vehicles are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year. ^{[citation needed]}
• Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos, Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
• DARPA wishes to have one-third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
• The Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
• Analog television is scheduled to be switched off in the Philippines.
• Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
• Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in Australia and New Zealand.
• The Voyager 1 space probe is expected to reach the heliopause.

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2015 in fiction

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
• Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.

Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre. ... The Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) is a fictional military-industrial conglomerate from the Doom series of video games created by Id Software . ... The Star Control series is a trilogy of computer games with a cult following. ... This article is about the video games series. ... It has been suggested that Xbox 360 Elite be merged into this article or section. ...

Film

• Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the film Back to the Future Part II. According to a holographic newscast, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a team from Miami.

Dr. Emmett Lathrop Doc Brown is a fictional character, one of the lead characters in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy, played by actor Christopher Lloyd in the three films and the live action sequences of the animated series. ... Martin Seamus Marty McFly is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy, played by actor Michael J. Fox in the three films and voiced by David Kaufman in the animated series. ... Jennifer Jane Parker is a fictional character, a character in the Back to the Future motion picture trilogy, played by actress Claudia Wells in the first film, actress Elisabeth Shue in the 2 sequels, and voiced by Cathy Cavadini in the animated series. ... is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 film and the first sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future. ... Major league affiliations National League (1876–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 10, 14, 23, 26, 42 Name Chicago Cubs (1902–present) Chicago Orphans (1898-1901) Chicago Colts (1890-1897) Chicago White Stockings (1870-1871, 1874-1889) (a. ... For other events named World Series, see World Series (disambiguation). ...

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The mysterious entities known as Angels reappear on Earth after a 15-year absence, and begin attacking the city of Tokyo-3 in sequence. The military forces of the UN and the Japanese government prove insufficient to repel the creatures, and authority in the campaign against the Angels is delegated to NERV, an international special defense agency created specifically for this purpose. Gendo Ikari, president of the Tokyo-3 headquarters of NERV, helms the operation, under supervision from the UN's top-secret SEELE committee. Using giant biomechanical organisms known as the Evangelions, NERV closely manages to kill the incoming Angels, one after the other.
• Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
• Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
• 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"

Defenders of the Earth is an animated television series of the 1980s featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate — Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician — battling the Flash Gordon villain Ming the Merciless in the year 2015. ... The Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise is a multi-billion dollar umbrella of Japanese media properties generally owned by the anime studio Gainax. ... NERV redirects here. ... This is a glossary of terms from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. ... Gendo Ikari (碇ゲンドウ Ikari Gendō) is a fictional character from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and The End of Evangelion movie. ... This is a glossary of terms from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. ... In the anime/manga franchise Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelions, or simply Evas, are the mechas piloted by the Children chosen by NERV. The Evas were created by NERV for the apparent purpose of defending Tokyo-3 from the threat of the Angels. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Hayato Kazami is the main characer in the anime series Shinseiki Future GPX Cyber Formula. ... Space: Above and Beyond was a short-lived 1990s American science fiction television show, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Two 21st century policeman patrol the Sanctuary District of San Francisco Past Tense was a two part episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in which the crew of the USS Defiant is thrown back in time to the mid 21st century on Earth. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Major Leagues redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard Solomon, usually known as Dick Solomon, is a character played by John Lithgow in the late 90s NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. ...

Media franchises

• .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

.hack is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two multimedia projects: Project . ...

Others

• John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that the World War III would begin on this year on his world line.