2022

Predicted and scheduled events

 * February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Beijing will be the first city ever to host both Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.
 * February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II, if still reigning, will reach 70 years on the throne, marking her platinum jubilee, the first British monarch ever to reach such a milestone.
 * June – SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first BFR spaceship to Mars, paving the way to colonization.
 * November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar., to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.

Date unknown

 * Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.
 * 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.
 * ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.
 * A collision of the contact binary star system KIC 9832227 will result in a luminous red nova, briefly creating one of the brightest objects in the night sky.
 * Romania could join the eurozone. The target date has been set by Foreign Minister Teodor Meleșcanu.

In fiction

 * 21st century in fiction