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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Scheduled events
January
March
June
October
November
3 - Presidential election and 117th Congressional election in the United States
December
16 - 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven
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Confirmed but unscheduled events
The following events will happen in 2020 but they haven't been scheduled yet.
Schapelle Corby to be released from prison for drug trafficking in Indonesia
Former U.S. Major League Baseball players to become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Willie McGee, Jim Abbott, Darryl Strawberry, Jack McDowell, Chili Davis, Tom Candiotti, Jeff Montgomery, Tony Phillips, Terry Steinbach, Mark Langston, and Otis Nixon.
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Predicted or expected events
The following events are predicted or expected to happen in 2020.
General predicitions
Space
NASA plans to launch a manned mission to the Moon and Mars by 2020.
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).
Military
Politics
India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed, powerful, and influential nation-state is expected to be fulfilled.
Construction
Completion of the urban revitalization of downtown Lisbon, Portugal.
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Fictional events
The events of the comic book 2020 Visions take place in this year.
The events of the TV series Terrahawks begin this year.
The events of the documentary Supervolcano take place in Summer.
The Planet X mission from TimeSplitters takes place in this year.
The story of Sealab 2020, with a permanent manned underwater research center constructed in the Emperor Seamounts, takes place in this year.
The events of Katsuhiro Otomo's anime film Roujin Z take place in this year.
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See also
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