2008

2008 is a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

January-June

• January 15 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the first of three flybys of Mercury.
• February 1 – Sweden plans to cease analog television broadcasts
• February 3 – Super Bowl XLII to be held in Glendale, Arizona.
• February 7 – Annular solar eclipse
• March 23 – Easter Sunday. Easter has not fallen this early since 1913.
• April 5 to April 7 – NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.
• May 16 – Presidential election slated in the Dominican Republic.
• June – UEFA Euro 2008 Championship tournament. Joint hosts Switzerland and Austria

July-December

• August 1 – Total solar eclipse
• August 8 – 2008 Summer Olympics scheduled to begin in Beijing, China
• September 11 – Topping out of Freedom Tower at World Trade Center site
• October 6 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second of three flybys of Mercury.
• November 4 – Presidential election slated in the United States.
• November 26 – If still Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair will surpass Margaret Thatcher's length of time in office.

Australia plans to cease analogue television broadcasts.

Unknown dates

• Both Liverpool (England) and Stavanger (Norway) are European Capital of Culture
• Tentative year for the completion of the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and the International Business Center in Seoul, South Korea
• Forecasted year of worldwide production decline in oil given by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
• Forecasted year of OPEC oil production exceeding non-OPEC oil production given by "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge" by Richard C. Duncan
• Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom passes King Henry III of England to become the the third longest reigning monarch of England.