This article is about the year 2022. Millennium: 3rd millennium Centuries: 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century Decades: 1990s  2000s  2010s  – 2020s –  2030s  2040s  2050s Years: 2019 2020 2021 – 2022 – 2023 2024 2025 2022 by topic: News by month Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec Arts Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television Politics Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states Science and technology Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight Sports Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league By place Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Brazil – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe Other topics Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments Works and introductions categories Works – Introductions v · d · e 2022 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 2022 MMXXII Ab urbe condita 2775 Armenian calendar 1471 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԱ Bahá'í calendar 178 – 179 Bengali calendar 1429 Berber calendar 2972 Buddhist calendar 2566 Burmese calendar 1384 Byzantine calendar 7530 – 7531 Chinese calendar 辛丑年十一月廿九日 (4658/4718-11-29) — to — 壬寅年十二月初九日 (4659/4719-12-9) Coptic calendar 1738 – 1739 Ethiopian calendar 2014 – 2015 Hebrew calendar 5782 – 5783 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 2078 – 2079  - Shaka Samvat 1944 – 1945  - Kali Yuga 5123 – 5124 Holocene calendar 12022 Iranian calendar 1400 – 1401 Islamic calendar 1443 – 1444 Japanese calendar Heisei 34 (平成34年) Korean calendar 4355 Thai solar calendar 2565 Unix time 1640995200 – 1672531199 v · d · e Wikimedia Commons has media related to: 2022

2022 (MMXXII) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2022nd year of the Anno Domini or Common Era designation; the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 3rd of the 2020s decade. Predicted and scheduled events Date unknown 2022 Winter Olympics to be held this year. The host city will be decided in the summer of 2015. FIFA's World Cup will be hosted by Qatar. 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann possibly causes a meteor shower. 1 In fiction Films

Set in 2022: Soylent Green (1973) No Escape (1994) 2022 Tsunami (2009), a Thai film about six earthquakes occurring simultaneously all over the world which causes the biggest tsunami in history. Music Year Zero (2007): According to the information discovered from the viral marketing campaign for the concept album by Nine Inch Nails, its story takes place in 2022 A.D., which in America is referred to as 0000 B.A. (Born Again) after several cataclysmic events. Television In the fictional Cowboy Bebop universe, an accident involving an experimental warp gateway destroys the Moon in 2022, devastating the Earth and resulting in the settlement of other planets in the Solar System. Robotech (1985) SDF-3 & Pioneer Expedition set out for Tirol seaQuest DSV (1995): seaQuest is abducted from Earth. Video games Gran Turismo 4 (2005) Shoe manufacturer Nike will be releasing the Nike ONE 2022 moon buggy which has eight gears and no top speed. Power is around 200 HP, and the car has morse code symbols on it. Perfect Dark (Game Boy Color) (2000). References ^ http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060510_comet_spitzer.html