2044

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century · 21st century · 22nd century
Decades:	2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s
Years:	2041 · 2042 · 2043 · 2044 · 2045 · 2046 · 2047

2044 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – State leaders – Sovereign states

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Tennis

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2044 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2044 MMXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2797
Armenian calendar	1493 ԹՎ ՌՆՂԳ
Assyrian calendar	6794
Bahá'í calendar	200–201
Bengali calendar	1451
Berber calendar	2994
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2588
Burmese calendar	1406
Byzantine calendar	7552–7553
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4740 or 4680     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4741 or 4681
Coptic calendar	1760–1761
Discordian calendar	3210
Ethiopian calendar	2036–2037
Hebrew calendar	5804–5805
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2100–2101
- Shaka Samvat	1965–1966
- Kali Yuga	5144–5145
Holocene calendar	12044
Igbo calendar	1044–1045
Iranian calendar	1422–1423
Islamic calendar	1466–1467
Japanese calendar	Heisei 56 (平成５６年)
Javanese calendar	1977–1979
Juche calendar	133
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4377
Minguo calendar	ROC 133 民國133年
Nanakshahi calendar	576
Thai solar calendar	2587
Unix time	2335219200–2366841599

2044 (MMXLIV) will be a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2044th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 44th year of the 3rd millennium, the 44th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2040s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• May – A METI message Cosmic Call 2 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, 55 Cancri star.
• May 18 – Near-Earth object 2002 QF15 will make a close approach to Earth.
• August 23 – Total solar eclipse from Greenland through Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana and ending at sunset in North Dakota.^[1]
• September – A METI message Cosmic Call 2 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 10307 star.
• October 1 – Occultation of Regulus by Venus. The last was on July 7, 1959. The next occultation of Regulus by Venus will occur on October 21, 3187, although some sources claim it will occur on October 6, 2271.

In fiction

• A devastating nuclear war destroys most of the Northern Hemisphere in John Wyndham's The Outward Urge.
• The Robotech Expeditionary Force will defeat the Invid at Reflex Point, marking the end of the Third Robotech War (Robotech animation series).
• The events of "A.D. 2044", a 1998 point-and-click adventure game for Windows written by L.K. Avalon and published by Flair Software, take place.^[2]
• The events of the Polish film Sexmission take place.
• The events of the Game Boy video game Alien Olympics 2044 AD take place.
• David Fisher, a character from HBO's Six Feet Under dies.
• The events of the American film Zenith take place.
• The Moment of Silence, an investigative thriller adventure game developed in 2004 by German video game developer House of Tales. The game is set in the year 2044 in downtown New York City.
• The Architects of History is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. In 2044, The Selachians attack Earth’s Moonbase and the Galactic Reich is threatened.
• The events of the 2012 science fiction film "Looper" take place.
• The events of the episode, "Days of Future Future" (2014), from the animated series The Simpsons, is set in 2044.

References

1. NASA Total Solar Eclipse of 2044 Aug 23
2. A.D. 2044 at MobyGames