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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.
2025 will be the first square year since 1936, as 2025 is the square of 45.[1]
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania will lift land border controls within the Schengen Area.[citation needed]
- January 11 – IFT-7 is scheduled to launch, with the debut of a Block 2 SpaceX Starship.[2]
- January 13
- The 2025 Winter World University Games will take place in Turin, Italy.[citation needed]
- Comet C/2024 G3, if it survives perihelion, could brighten to magnitude -2.0 or higher and reach naked-eye visibility.[3]
- January 14 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will take place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.[4][5]
- January 19 - The proposed ban on video sharing service TikTok is set to take effect in the United States.[6]
- January 23 – Same-sex marriage will officially become legal in Thailand.[7]
- February 9
- The 2025 Ecuadorian general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- The 2025 Liechtenstein general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.[8]
- March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is planned to be introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[9]
- April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[10]
- May 11 – The 2025 Albanian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled to be held.[11]
- May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is scheduled to be held in Basel, Switzerland.[12]
- May 17 – 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.[citation needed]
- May 18 – The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held; incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election.[citation needed]
- June 15 – July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in the United States.[citation needed]
- July 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone.[13]
- July 11 – August 3 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships will take place in Singapore.[citation needed]
- July 16–27 – The 2025 Summer World University Games will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Germany.[citation needed]
- August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games will take place in Chengdu, China.[citation needed]
- August 17 – The 2025 Bolivian general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- September 8 – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan.[citation needed]
- September 28 – The 2025 German federal election is scheduled to be held, but is expected to be moved to February 23 as a result of the 2024 German government crisis.[citation needed]
- October 14 – Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 which started in July 2015.[14]
- October 20 – If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Canadian federal election will be held no later than this date.[15]
- October 26 – The 2025 Argentine legislative election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- October 27 – The 2025 Irish presidential election will be held no later than this date.[citation needed]
- November 23
- The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Singaporean general election will be held no later than this date, with the current Parliament to be dissolved no later than August 24.[citation needed]
- November 27 – December 14 – The 2025 World Women's Handball Championship will take place in Germany and the Netherlands.[citation needed]
Date unknown
[edit]- January - NVIDIA is expected to release its GeForce 50 series GPUs in early 2025, likely around or after CES 2025 (January 7–10). The GPUs will feature the new "Blackwell" architecture, significant advancements in ray tracing, DLSS, and up to 32 GB of GDDR7 memory.[16][17]
- Rockstar Games will most likely release Grand Theft Auto VI sometime in late 2025.[citation needed]
- The First Esports Olympics in 2025 will be held in Saudi Arabia.
- Syrian presidential snap election
- July – The Sun's activity is expected to peak, as it reaches solar maximum for the current solar cycle.[citation needed]
- October – The next Czech parliamentary election will be held.[citation needed]
- 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.[18]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[19][20]
- South Africa will host the G20 summit, the first nation in Africa to do so.[citation needed]
- Brazil will host the COP 30 summit.[citation needed]
- December – The 2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "C/2024 G3 (ATLAS): Brightest star of 2025?". starwalk.space. June 14, 2024. Archived from the original on November 8, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ "2025 IHF Men's Handball World Championship". visitnorway.com. Archived from the original on November 11, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ "Host cities and schedule announced for the 2025 IHF Men's World Championship". International Handball Federation. April 8, 2024. Archived from the original on November 13, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from app stores Jan. 19". Reuters. December 16, 2024. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
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- ^ "Nomination open for Torino 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games". Special Olympics Great Britain. December 12, 2023. Archived from the original on December 17, 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. March 5, 2024. Archived from the original on June 21, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
- ^ "Basel 2025". Eurovision.tv. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024. 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. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ^ GitHub-Name. "Windows 10 Home and Pro - Microsoft Lifecycle". learn.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2024. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ "An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act". LegisINFO. May 3, 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
- ^ Leather, Antony (November 29, 2024). "NVIDIA RTX 5000 Series Graphics Cards Arriving Early January". Forbes. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
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- ^ 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.