2015

This article is about the year 2015. For the video game developer, see 2015, Inc..

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Years:	2012 2013 2014 – 2015 – 2016 2017 2018

2015 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 – Video gaming

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 – Basketball – 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 – Ghana – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions

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2015 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2015 MMXV
Ab urbe condita	2768
Armenian calendar	1464 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	6765
Bahá'í calendar	171 – 172
Bengali calendar	1422
Berber calendar	2965
British Regnal year	63 Eliz. 2 – 64 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2559
Burmese calendar	1377
Byzantine calendar	7523 – 7524
Chinese calendar	甲午年十一月十一日 (4651/4711-11-11) — to — 乙未年十一月廿一日 (4652/4712-11-21)
Coptic calendar	1731 – 1732
Ethiopian calendar	2007 – 2008
Hebrew calendar	5775 – 5776
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	2071 – 2072
- Shaka Samvat	1937 – 1938
- Kali Yuga	5116 – 5117
Holocene calendar	12015
Iranian calendar	1393 – 1394
Islamic calendar	1436 – 1437
Japanese calendar	Heisei 27 (平成27年)
Korean calendar	4348
Minguo calendar	ROC 104 民國104年
Thai solar calendar	2558
Unix time	1420070400 – 1451606399
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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2015th year in the Common Era (or Anno Domini), the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and 21st century, and the 6th of the 2010s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

February

• NASA's Dawn spacecraft is expected to arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres.^[1]

March

• March 20 – Total solar eclipse (visible in the North Atlantic).

May

• May 21 – NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.

June

July

• July 1 – Earth, Venus, and Jupiter will be aligned.
• July 14 – NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months, until the distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper belt and eventually leave our Solar System.

August

September

• September 10 – Queen Elizabeth II will surpass Queen Victoria as the longest reigning monarch in British history if she is still reigning.
• September 13 – Partial solar eclipse.

October

• October 25 – The expected return of the Comet 22P/Kopff.

November

December

Date unknown

• The entire World Trade Center site is estimated to be completed by 2015, including 1 World Trade Center, 200 Greenwich Street, 175 Greenwich Street, 150 Greenwich Street, 130 Liberty Street, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
• The first plasma operation of the nuclear fusion reactor ITER is expected.
• Target date for OECD countries to raise aid levels to 0.7% of Gross Domestic Product, as per the Paris Agreement.
• The United States Navy will commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
• The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
• The Voyager 1 space probe will reach the heliopause.
• This is the earliest year the European Space Agency might launch the Darwin Mission to search for exoplanets that could possibly harbour life.
• It has been suggested that the current East African Community may federalize into a single state.
• The first phase of Masdar City is scheduled to be completed. Its goal is to be the world's first fully sustainable, zero-carbon, and zero-waste city.
• Target date for the establishment of the Eurasian Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.^[2]

In fiction

Literature

• Runaround, a short story by Isaac Asimov, is set in this year.
• The Carbon Diaries: 2015, a teenage diary series about climate change is set in this year.

Computer and video games

• Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.^[3]
• Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
• Mega Man 8 and Mega Man & Bass are set in this year.^{[citation needed]}
• "Jetfighter 2015" (2005)
• Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.
• Max Payne 3: The events take place 12 years after the second game which was set in 2003.
• MAG: Massive Action Game: The event of the war between Valor, Raven and S.V.E.R starts in the future, 2015

Film

• "Firebird 2015 AD" (1981)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989): Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Parker time travel to October 21 of this year. Lawyers are abolished, and people travel in flying cars and hoverboards.
• Event Horizon (1997): The first permanent colony will be established on the Moon.
• The 6th Day (2000)

Television

• Set in 2015:
  • FlashForward (2010): On the show Future Shock (FlashForward) at the end has "Happy New Year 2015" on a sign in a montage in the second blackout.
  • Defenders of the Earth (1986):
  • Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The main events of the series take place in this year.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense", 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
  • Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
  • Twin Peaks (1990–1991): Agent Cooper dreams the Red Room in which Laura Palmer reveals to him her killer of 25 years prior, as seen in the European cut of the pilot.
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"
  • Family Guy: In the episode The King is Dead, Peter puts on a play called The King and I which takes place in this year.
  • An episode of Doctor Who in the Series 5 episode, Amy's Choice, which aired in 2010, is set in this year.

Media franchises

• .hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

References

1. ^ "NASA - Dawn at a Glance" NASA. Retrieved October 12, 2011
2. ^ "Russia sees union with Belarus and Kazakhstan by 2015". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15790452. Retrieved 19 November 2011. 
3. ^ Doomrpg.com