2042

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2010s  2020s  2030s  – 2040s –  2050s  2060s  2070s
Years:	2039 2040 2041 – 2042 – 2043 2044 2045

2042 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2042 MMXLII
Ab urbe condita	2795
Armenian calendar	1491 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԱ
Bahá'í calendar	198 – 199
Bengali calendar	1449
Berber calendar	2992
Buddhist calendar	2586
Burmese calendar	1404
Byzantine calendar	7550 – 7551
Chinese calendar	辛酉年十二月初十日 (4678/4738-12-10) — to — 壬戌年十一月二十日 (4679/4739-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1758 – 1759
Ethiopian calendar	2034 – 2035
Hebrew calendar	5802 – 5803
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	2098 – 2099
- Shaka Samvat	1964 – 1965
- Kali Yuga	5143 – 5144
Holocene calendar	12042
Iranian calendar	1420 – 1421
Islamic calendar	1464 – 1465
Japanese calendar	Heisei 54 (平成54年)
Korean calendar	4375
Thai solar calendar	2585
Unix time	2272147200 – 2303683199

2042 (MMXLII) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

• April 30 – The Nickelodeon time capsule will be dug up.
• September 17 – A common computing representation of date and time on IBM mainframe systems will overflow with potential results similar to the year 2000 problem.
• According to the United States Census Bureau, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino, African American, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native American will together outnumber European Americans of non-Hispanic origin.^[1]

In fiction

• On the ABC series Defying Gravity, the mission to Mars took place in this year, ten years before the Antares Mission in 2052.
• The Japanese version of Snatcher, a graphic adventure game originally released in 1988, are set on December 2042. The English localization of Snatcher moved the setting to 2047.

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