22nd century
will impact Earth
*
December 11,
2117:
Transit of Venus*
2123:
Triple conjunction Mars-
Jupiter*
September 14,
2123: At 15:28
UTC,
Venus will
occult Jupiter
*
December 8,
2125: Transit of Venus
*
July 29,
2126: At 16:08 UTC,
Mercury will occult Mars
*
March 10,
2130: At 07:32 UTC, Sun passes through solar-system
barycenter*
December 3,
2133: At 14:14 UTC, Mercury will occult Venus
*
2134:
Comet Halley will return to the inner
solar system*
2148: Triple conjunction Mars-
Saturn*
2170: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
* Given that
Pluto's orbit is approximately 248 Earth years, the year
2178 will mark the first Plutonian anniversary of the planet's discovery
*
2185: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
*
2187: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
*
September 2,
2197: Venus occults
Spica (last occultation of Spica by Venus was on
November 10,
1783)
Literature (novels, short stories, comics)
*
Angels 2200 by
Peter Haynes*
Distress by
Greg Egan*
The Sirens of Titan by
Kurt Vonnegut*
Heads and
Moving Mars, books by
Greg Bear*
Kaleidoscope Century by
John Barnes (
frame story)
*
Noon Universe created by
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky*
Rendezvous with Rama, a book by
Arthur C. Clarke*
When Gravity Fails, a book by
George Alec Effinger*
Judge Dredd, a
2000 AD story (note that the earliest episodes took place in
2099, though most following stories have taken place in the 22nd century, usually 122 years after real-world publication (so a story published in the comic in 2006 will take place in 2128)).
*
Strontium Dog, a 2000 AD story.
*
Crisis in 2140 (serialized as
Null-ABC) by
H. Beam Piper and
John J. McGuire*
The Fun They Had by
Isaac Asimov is set in 2157.
*
Sci-Fi Channel's
Mission Genesis is set in 2157.
*
Doraemon is born on September 3, 2112
*
Marte XXIII by
Jordi Sierra I Fabra (Mars XXIII) events take place in 2109.
*
Revolt in 2100 by
Robert A. Heinlein*
The Outward Urge by
John Wyndham has the first successful landing on
Venus (planet) in 2144.
Television and film
* The events of the
Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
* The first
Alien film takes place in 2122 according to the
Alien Universe Timeline. The sequels
Aliens and
Alien 3 both take place in 2179.
*
Bicentennial Man, about half the events of this movie take place here
* Due to the time-travel nature of its stories,
Doctor Who has taken place at various points during the 22nd century.
*
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD, a film adaptation based on the 2nd
Doctor Who TV story to feature the Daleks.
*
Gundam Wing takes place in
2166 (AC 195).
*
Mobile Suit Gundam, a
Japanese
anime television series. It is known that the UC timeline begins in
2081. This would place the
One Year War (UC 0079) occurring in
2159.
*
Gundam X, an alternate universe "what-if" of
Mobile Suit Gundam where the
Earth Federation lost the One Year War (called the Seventh Space War in GX), takes place in
2174, assuming the Seventh Space War took place at the same time as the One Year War.
*
Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of
Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted
oil crash of the mid-
21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between
2040 and
2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161).
*
DT Eightron, an anime set on the year 2187.
*
Phil of the Future, a
Disney Channel series. (Diffys are from this era (2121) before they crash in
2004; theme song refers to Phil as a "22nd Century man").
*
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, an animated television series with
Sherlock Holmes in a science fiction setting
*
Space Battleship Yamato was launched on
October 9, 2199 on its desperate mission to save the earth in the
Anime series of the same name.
*
Hyperdrive, a British
sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS
Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.
*
Star Trek: Enterprise (2151-2161). The first starship capable of reaching Warp 5 is launched from Earth, leading to unprecedented exploration of space, including first contacts with the
Klingons,
Andorians, and
Romulans. According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from
Florida to
Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in
2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people.
Enterprise is decommissioned in 2161, just prior to the establishment of the United Federation of Planets.
* According to
Star Trek, the
Earth-Romulan War will be fought between 2156 and 2160, which results in the establishment of the
United Federation of Planets and
Starfleet on
October 11, 2161.
Star Trek also predicts human colonization of
Mars by 2103.
*
The Matrix, a
science fiction cult movie, in which the
protagonist Neo discovers that all what he believed was a
reality is in fact
computer simulation.
Morpheus, another character of the movie, identifies the events of the movie as being set in the years around 2199. However, it should be noted that it was mentioned in the film
Matrix Reloaded that the movie took place in the 6th incarnation of
The Matrix, meaning that the movie actually took place far further in the future than was originally believed.
* In
Babylon 5, the
Foundationism religion was started in the year 2157.
* The animated television series
Exosquad is apparently set in the late 2110s.
* On The
Time Warp Trio (TV series) Joe, Sam, and Fred meet Jodie, Samantha, and Freddi at
September 17,
2105. (Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha are Joe, Fred and Sam's
great-granddaughters).
*In
Doctor Who it was around 2164 that the Daleks invaded Earth.
*The
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fight future crime in the year
2105 in the animated series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward*In
A.I. (film), a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled "
Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of
artificial intelligence (called mechas, short for "mechanisms," i.e. synthetic life have become commonplace.
Video games
*
Warzone 2100 the nuclear fallout for Warzone begins in
2099 ending in
2100*
Doom, the events of the computer game series take place in the 22nd century.
*
Zero Wing (of
All Your Base fame), war begins in the year
2101.
*
Mach Rider a
Nintendo Entertainment System game that is set in
2112.
*
Front Mission 3 takes place in
2112. Additionally, this is when the
People's Republic of Da Han Zhong forms out of China.
*
System Shock 2 is set in
2114.
*
Mega Man X Series, takes place during 21XX (starting at
2114 or later).
*
The Flipside of Dominick Hide is set in 2130.
* Alien Legacy, the launch of the Seedship UNS Calypso
takes place in 2119; the launch of Tantalus
takes place in 2135.
* Battlefield 2142 is an upcoming computer game that will be set in the year 2142.
* Doom 3, The events at the UAC Base on Mars occur in the year 2145.
* Earth 2150, The Earth is destroyed at the end of the year 2150.
* Aliens vs. Predator series events take place in 2154.
* Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters begins on February 17, 2155.
* Fallout begins in 2161.
* Zone of the Enders series, takes place from 2167 to 2174.
* Traffic Department 2192 takes place in 2192.
* Wipeout Pure'' (a
PSP exclusive) takes place in the year
2197.
Other
*
Reich Star An RPG which takes place in 2134, it was published by Simon Bell and Ken Richardson (1991) under the name of "Creative Encounters"
*
2164 The
Daleks invade earth (from the British television show 'Doctor Who')
* The warriors recruit or the ancient Parker Sheridan Freedman rulers end here!
*
2112, an album by
Rush about a man living in a
dystopic society.
* FAT file systems support dates up to December 31, 2107.
* In 2110, Kipland "Kip" Kinkel is eligible for parole after the murders of both his parents and two students at his school. See
Kip Kinkel for more information.
*
April 15,
2112 - the 200th Anniversary of the sinking of the
RMS Titanic
