2061

This article is about the year 2061. For other uses, see 2061 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	2030s  2040s  2050s  – 2060s –  2070s  2080s  2090s
Years:	2058 2059 2060 – 2061 – 2062 2063 2064

2061 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

Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Basketball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling (men, women) – Tennis – Rugby league

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria - Azerbaijan – Bangladesh - Belgium - Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – 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 – 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

2061 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2061 MMLXI
Ab urbe condita	2814
Armenian calendar	1510 ԹՎ ՌՇԺ
Assyrian calendar	6811
Bahá'í calendar	217–218
Bengali calendar	1468
Berber calendar	3011
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2605
Burmese calendar	1423
Byzantine calendar	7569–7570
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4757 or 4697     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4758 or 4698
Coptic calendar	1777–1778
Discordian calendar	3227
Ethiopian calendar	2053–2054
Hebrew calendar	5821–5822
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2117–2118
- Shaka Samvat	1983–1984
- Kali Yuga	5162–5163
Holocene calendar	12061
Igbo calendar	1061–1062
Iranian calendar	1439–1440
Islamic calendar	1483–1484
Japanese calendar	Heisei 73 (平成７３年)
Juche calendar	150
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4394
Minguo calendar	ROC 150 民國150年
Thai solar calendar	2604
Unix time	2871763200–2903299199

2061 (MMLXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2061st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 61st year of the 3rd millennium, the 61st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2060s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• April 20 – A total solar eclipse will occur.
• July 28 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun—the last return reached its perihelion on February 9, 1986.
• October 13 – An annular solar eclipse will occur.
• December 31 – expiration of the Singapore-Malaysia Water Agreement.
• December 31 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science completes an effort—begun in 1985—to "help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology," based on defined benchmarks.

Speculations

• Commercial mining of the Moon's elements could be economically feasible.

In fiction

• The novel 2061: Odyssey Three takes place in the year 2061.
• Television: The Twilight Zone, Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961). Four men pull a gold heist, go into suspended animation for 100 years hoping the robbery will be forgotten.
• May 21 – The Last Question is asked for the first time.
• Around June in "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" episode of The Twilight Zone, three of the four gold burglars awake from a century of being in a state of suspended animation.
• September 12 – The events of the Commodore 64 computer game Project Firestart begin.
• Real Drive, a television show, takes place.
• Red Mars details the first Mars revolution and the Third World War on Earth, in the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel.
• Heart of the Comet details an expedition to capture Halley's Comet
• Galilei Donna, an anime television series, is set in this year.
• In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Carpenter Street", this year is mentioned in relation to the depletion of earth's fossil fuels.