2029

This article is about the year 2029. For the number, see 2029 (number).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s
Years:	2026 2027 2028 – 2029 – 2030 2031 2032

2029 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

2029 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2029 MMXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2782
Armenian calendar	1478 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԸ
Assyrian calendar	6779
Bahá'í calendar	185–186
Bengali calendar	1436
Berber calendar	2979
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2573
Burmese calendar	1391
Byzantine calendar	7537–7538
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4725 or 4665     — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4726 or 4666
Coptic calendar	1745–1746
Discordian calendar	3195
Ethiopian calendar	2021–2022
Hebrew calendar	5789–5790
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2085–2086
- Shaka Samvat	1951–1952
- Kali Yuga	5130–5131
Holocene calendar	12029
Igbo calendar	1029–1030
Iranian calendar	1407–1408
Islamic calendar	1450–1451
Japanese calendar	Heisei 41 (平成４１年)
Juche calendar	118
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4362
Minguo calendar	ROC 118 民國118年
Thai solar calendar	2572
Unix time	1861920000–1893455999

2029 (MMXXIX) will be a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2029th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 29th year of the 3rd millennium, the 29th year of the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

April

• April 13 – The asteroid 99942 Apophis (previously better known by its provisional designation 2004 MN₄) will pass within 30,000 km (18,600 mi) of the Earth, very briefly appearing as bright as 3rd magnitude. A possibility exists that Apophis could go through a 400 m wide "keyhole" on this pass which would put it on a collision course with the Earth in 2036.

December

• December 20 – The December 2029 lunar eclipse, the second of two Metonic twin eclipses, will occur. The first of the twin eclipse pair was the December 2010 lunar eclipse, occurring on December 20–21, 2010. The twin eclipses are separated by 19 years.

Date Unknown

• The digital time capsule 'A Message From Earth' reaches its destination on the planet Gliese 581 c.
• NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to leave the solar system.

In fiction

Computer and video games

• Deus Ex (2000): JC Denton's "assigned birth date" is March 17.
• Shadow of the Ninja, also known as Kage and Blue shadow, the events unfold of Emperor Garuda taking over, and the ninjas overthrowing him.
• Gekitotsu Dangan Jidōsha Kessen: Battle Mobile (激突弾丸自動車決戦バトルモービル, "Mobile Kessen Battle Bullets Car Crash") a Super Famicom vertically-scrolling action video game from System Sacom.
• Homefront: The Revolution: The events of the game take place in this year.
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is set in this year, two years after Human Revolution.

Manga

• Ghost in the Shell: Public Security Section 9 is established.

Film

• The Terminator (1984): One terminator and a soldier, a T-800 and Kyle Reese, are sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to, respectively, kill and protect a woman called Sarah Connor.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): Two Terminators, a T-800 and a T-1000, are sent back in time from 2029 to 1995 to, respectively, protect and kill John Connor as a ten year old child.
• The ending of the film Death Becomes Her (1992) is set in this year.
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• In the 2001 remake Planet of the Apes, the main character is from 2029 on board a USAF spaceship orbiting near Saturn.

Television

• Six Feet Under ("Everyone's Waiting", 2005): Keith Charles is shot and killed by robbers seizing the contents of his armored truck.
• Race to Mars, a fictional show about a manned expedition to Mars, takes place between 2029 and 2030.
• Guilty Crown, year when the virus "Apocalypse Virus" spreads and plunges Japan into a state of chaos known as the "Lost Christmas"
• Marshall Eriksen from How I Met Your Mother opens his wife (Lily Aldrin)'s death letter on November 1st, 2029, despite her not being dead.