2026

This article is about the year 2026.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2023 2024 2025 – 2026 – 2027 2028 2029

2026 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States - Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2026 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2026 MMXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2779
Armenian calendar	1475 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6776
Bahá'í calendar	182–183
Bengali calendar	1433
Berber calendar	2976
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2570
Burmese calendar	1388
Byzantine calendar	7534–7535
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4722 or 4662     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4723 or 4663
Coptic calendar	1742–1743
Discordian calendar	3192
Ethiopian calendar	2018–2019
Hebrew calendar	5786–5787
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2082–2083
- Shaka Samvat	1948–1949
- Kali Yuga	5127–5128
Holocene calendar	12026
Igbo calendar	1026–1027
Iranian calendar	1404–1405
Islamic calendar	1447–1448
Japanese calendar	Heisei 38 (平成３８年)
Juche calendar	115
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4359
Minguo calendar	ROC 115 民國115年
Thai solar calendar	2569
Unix time	1767225600–1798761599

2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium, the 26th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

August

• August 12 – A solar eclipse is predicted.

Date unknown

• Having begun in 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is scheduled to finish.
• Onboard plutonium generators delivering heat and electricity to Mars Science Laboratory will run out.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (2007)

• Black Ops 2 (2012): Ending takes place that year

Film

• Metropolis (1927)

• Doom (2005) part of the story take place in 2026.

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014): The events of the film takes place ten years after a deadly epidemic wipes out most of the human populace.

Literature

• "There Will Come Soft Rains", a short story by Ray Bradbury, is set on August 4.

• "Red Mars", the story begins on this date.

Television

• seaQuest DSV: An economic summit takes place that places hundreds of thousands of undeveloped basins back on the market.

• Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" (2005): World War III begins, continuing through 2053.

• Fringe episode "The Day We Died" (2011): Peter travels to this year when entering a machine. This is the year of Olivia Dunham's death.

• In the TV Series Ben 10, the events of Ben 10,000 take place on Grandpa Max's birthday in 2006 (60) and 2026 (80). (2006)