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2045 (MMXLV) will be a common year starting on Sunday 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 Sunday (dominical letter A), in other words, a common year where Doomsday is Tuesday. ... For the calendar of religious holidays and periods, see liturgical year. ...

Predicted events

• The United States Air Force will start at least partial phase-out of their B-52 Bombers, which will have then served 93 years of combat.
• August 12 — A Solar Eclipse will occur from Northern California to Florida.

“The U.S. Air Force” redirects here. ... The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range strategic bomber flown by the United States Air Force since 1955, replacing the Convair B-36. ... is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Anniversaries

• February 23 — 100th anniversary of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
• February 25 — 100th anniversary of Radio Canada International
• March 3 — 200th anniversary of the admission of Florida into the union
• April 12 — 100th anniversary of the death of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• April 30 — 100th anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler
• May 3 — 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Cap Arcona by the RAF
• May 8 — September 2: The 100th anniversary of the Second World War's conclusion will be held on this date. Some commemorative ceremonies have already been scheduled, such as Japan planning several remembrance events to honor those who died in the dropping of the first atomic bombs. France has also planned similar ceremonies in Paris. The society of the time will consist of senior citizens (65 years+) whose grandparents served in World War II. The younger generation will see World War II as a conflict a century past, and most likely will view the Second World War with much the same personal disconnection as 20th century historians perceived such conflicts as the American Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars.
• August 6 — 100th anniversary of The Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the United States at the end of World War II
• August 17 — 100th anniversary of Independence of Indonesia
• December 29 — 200th anniversary of the admission of Texas into the union

is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press. ... is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Radio Canada International (RCI) is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). ... is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... FDR redirects here. ... is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Hitler redirects here. ... is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Cap Arcona was a large German luxury ocean liner, formerly of the Hamburg-South America line, that was sunk in 1945 with the loss of many lives while laden with prisoners from concentration camps. ... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Combatants Austria[a] Portugal Prussia[a] Russia[b] Sicily[c] Sardinia  Spain[d]  Sweden[e] United Kingdom French Empire Holland[f] Italy Etruria[g] Naples[h] Duchy of Warsaw[i] Confederation of the Rhine[j] Bavaria Saxony Westphalia Württemberg Denmark-Norway[k] Commanders Archduke Charles Prince Schwarzenberg Karl Mack... is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Hiroshima (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ...

Predictions

• Futurist Ray Kurzweil and others predict this year will mark the technological singularity.
• India becomes the most populous country of the world, outweighing China.

Dr. Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is a pioneer in the fields of optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic musical keyboards. ... When plotted on a logarithmic graph, 15 separate lists of paradigm shifts for key events in human history show an exponential trend. ...

Fictional events

• Beginning of Corporation War in Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
• In South Africa white minority rule comes to an end as most of the whites are massacred in an uprising, in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
• The movie Red Planet takes place in 2045.
• The American Dad character Klaus has a body again and a grandson.