24th century

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Millennium:	2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium

Centuries:	23rd century - 24th century - 25th century
Decades:	2300s 2310s 2320s 2330s 2340s 2350s 2360s 2370s 2380s 2390s

The 24th century (Gregorian Calendar) comprises the years 2301-2400. Unlike most century years, the year 2400 will be a leap year.

1 Astronomical events
2 Quincentennials
3 Science fiction set in the 24th century
4 Decades and years
5 External links

[edit] Astronomical events

September 11, 2307: At 22:50 UTC, Venus will occult Uranus
2313: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter
2319: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
June 4, 2327: At 00:54 UTC, Venus will occult Mars
October 8, 2335: At 14:51 UTC, Venus will occult Jupiter
April 7, 2351: At 17:22 UTC, Mercury will occult Uranus
December 10, 2368: Transit of Venus
2388: Triple conjunction Mars-Saturn
May 11, 2391 - Partial transit of Mercury
November 17, 2400: Venus will occult Antares (last occultation of Antares by Venus was on September 17, 525 BC)

[edit] Quincentennials

The 24th century will see some important quincentennials, or 500th anniversaries. These will include:

2305, Death of Horatio Nelson
2306, Birth of Benito Juárez
2321, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Peru and Panama independence from Spain
2322, Brazil - independence from Portugal
2361, American Civil War
2367, Canadian Confederation
2370, Birth of Vladimir Lenin
2378, Birth of Josef Stalin
2385, Invention of the automobile
2389, Birth of Adolf Hitler
2393, Birth of Mao Zedong
2395, Invention of the cinematographer

[edit] Science fiction set in the 24th century

[edit] Television

Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century (circa 2350)
In the episode Attack of Big MACC in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, the "thinking" robot MACC leaves his time (2390) and time travels back to the late 1980s. MACC later returns to his own time after helping the TMNT fighting Krang, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (circa 2364-2370)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (circa 2369-2375)
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet is active in the year 2352.
Star Trek: Voyager (circa 2371-2378)
The apocalyptic Space Runaway Ideon occurs in the 24th century. It is an anime series made in 1980, and is quite famous in Japan.
In Futurama 2303 is the year that the Monks started looking for God through their giant Telescope.
In Jimmy Timmy 3, AJ planned to freeze himself to go to the 24th century.

[edit] Movies

[edit] Computer games

The FreeSpace Series, a sci-fi space starfighter sim, takes place from 2335 to 2367
Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos, a large-scale spacecraft game, takes place in years 2378 and 2393
The Journeyman Project, a computer game, set in 2318
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri takes place in 2327, usually referred to as ClanYear 124, in the date system used by the Clans inhabiting Alpha Centauri.
Unreal Tournament series, a first-person shooter (circa 2341-2362)
Mega Man Zero takes place sometime after 2302, but officially takes place in 22XX, at least four years earlier.
Any Star Trek games taking place in the general timeline of the previously described television series.

[edit] Other games

In the Star Fleet Universe, Y1 - the year of First Contact between humanity and the Vulcans, has been postulated as occurring in 2400, although the Star Trek: First Contact movie previously mentioned identifies the year of first contact as 2063.

[edit] Books

The temporal setting of Brave New World can be mathematically calculated from dates given in the book to be the year 2349 (in the book it is referred to as A.F. 632, the 632nd year since the start of industrialization, and the 214th year since the first Ford Model T came off the assembly line).

[edit] Decades and years

2290s	2290	2291	2292	2293	2294	2295	2296	2297	2298	2299
2300s	2300	2301	2302	2303	2304	2305	2306	2307	2308	2309
2310s	2310	2311	2312	2313	2314	2315	2316	2317	2318	2319
2320s	2320	2321	2322	2323	2324	2325	2326	2327	2328	2329
2330s	2330	2331	2332	2333	2334	2335	2336	2337	2338	2339
2340s	2340	2341	2342	2343	2344	2345	2346	2347	2348	2349
2350s	2350	2351	2352	2353	2354	2355	2356	2357	2358	2359
2360s	2360	2361	2362	2363	2364	2365	2366	2367	2368	2369
2370s	2370	2371	2372	2373	2374	2375	2376	2377	2378	2379
2380s	2380	2381	2382	2383	2384	2385	2386	2387	2388	2389
2390s	2390	2391	2392	2393	2394	2395	2396	2397	2398	2399
2400s	2400	2401	2402	2403	2404	2405	2406	2407	2408	2409

[edit] External links

24th century article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.

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