2020

2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. (see link for calendar)

Years: 2017 2018 2019 – 2020 – 2021 2022 2023
Decades: 1990s 2000s 2010s – 2020s – 2030s 2040s 2050s
Centuries: 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century

Predictions relating to year 2020

British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020
George W. Bush stated on January 14, 2004 that humans should return to the moon no later than 2020, to prepare to eventually go on to Mars

Summer Olympic Games to be held
Stipulated completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in China
Scheduled completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China
Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
November 3 – scheduled presidential and congressional elections in the United States (117th Congress will be elected).
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, if still reigning, passes Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria to become the longest reigning monarch in modern European history.