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The 2040s start on January 1, 2040 and end on December 31, 2049 .

Anticipated events

• Possible manned mission of NASA to Jupiter moon Callisto .

2040

• Summer Olympics 2040
• February 5: Asteroid 2011 AG5 passes Earth
• May 2nd: Partial solar eclipse
• November 4th: Partial solar eclipse

2041

• Scheduled completion of the planned project to build a railway line between Moscow and New York

2042

• Olympic Winter Games 2042
• Football World Cup 2042

2043

• Slovenia wants to shut down its nuclear power plant

2044

• Summer Olympics 2044

2045

• August 12th: Total solar eclipse in the USA

2046

• Olympic Winter Games 2046
• Football World Cup 2046
• January 22nd: Partial lunar eclipse over Asia, Australia and North America ( Saros cycle 115)
• February 5th: Annular solar eclipse over Australia, Papua New Guinea and the western USA (Saros cycle 141)
• July 18: Partial lunar eclipse over North and South America, Europe, Africa and western Asia (Saros cycle 120)
• August 2nd: Total solar eclipse over Brazil and southern Africa (Saros cycle 146)

2047

• January 12th: Total lunar eclipse
• July 7th: Total lunar eclipse

2048

• Summer Olympics 2048
• January 1: Total lunar eclipse over northeast Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, Western Europe and West Africa ( Saros cycle 135)
• January 14th: The environmental protocol to the Antarctic Treaty is open for revision.
• June 11: Annular solar eclipse over North America, Central America, Europe, the Arctic, North Africa, Russia and West Asia (Saros cycle 128)
• June 26th: Partial lunar eclipse over North and South America, Europe and Africa (Saros cycle 140)
• December 5: Total solar eclipse over southern South America and southwest Africa (Saros cycle 133)

2049

• May 7th: Mercury transit

Anniversaries

• October 3, 2040: 50th anniversary of German reunification with the capital Berlin and the re-establishment of the federal states of Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia .
• September 2, 2045: 100th anniversary of the end of World War II

Cultural references

• One of the storylines in the novel Transcendence takes place in the 2040s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melissa L. McGuire, Stanley K. Borowski, Lee M. Mason, James Gilland: High Power MPD Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto. NASA, 2003, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Could a Russia-US rail tunnel be built? Accessed August 8, 2019 .