2040

2040 (MMXL) will be a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2040th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 40th year of the 3rd millennium, the 40th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2040s decade.

• January 1 – Books, movies, and other works published in 1944 will enter the public domain in the United States.

• February 6 – Early Macintosh computers cannot recognise dates after this day.

• May 2 – Partial solar eclipse

• September 8 – Major alignment of the planets

• November 4 – Partial solar eclipse

• 2040 Summer Olympics will be held.
• Tuas Port in Singapore, the first fully automated container ship terminal in the world, will be completed and operational.^[1]
• If the United States had not returned land for bases on Bermuda in 2002, a ninety-nine year lease (signed in 1941) would have expired.

• The anime series Macross Plus and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are both set in this year.
• In the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the television becomes obsolete.
• A collection of Doctor Who short stories, Short Trips, is also set in that year.