2024

Predicted and scheduled events

• January 1 - Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, Steamboat Willie and The Gallopin' Gaucho will enter the public domain, as well as other books, films, and other works published in 1928.
• March 25 - March 2024 lunar eclipse.
• April 8 - A total solar eclipse will be visible in the Central Pacific Ocean, northern Mexico, eastern, southwestern and central US, southeastern Canada and northern Atlantic Ocean.
• May 2 - The next UK general election is scheduled to be held on this date in accordance with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. It will elect the 59th Parliament of the UK and will be the first general election after Brexit.
• May 26 - Comet 9P/Tempel 1 will pass 0.55 AU from Jupiter and may break apart due to gravitational forces.
• May 27 - Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest ever reigning monarch of a fully sovereign state if she is still alive and reigning.
• July 1 - General Elections for Mexico's president will be held.
• August 2-18 - The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France.
• September 4-15 - The 2024 Summer Paralympics will be held in Paris, France.
• September 18 - September 2024 lunar eclipse.
• October 1 - If still living, Jimmy Carter will become the first former US president to celebrate his 100th birthday.
• October 2 - Solar eclipse of October 2, 2024.

  Date unknown

• NASA plans to send "the first woman and the next man" to the Lunar south pole region via Artemis 3.
• Romania could join the eurozone. The target date was set by then Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă in late January 2019.
• SpaceX plans to send a cargo mission to Mars in May and then a crewed mission to the surface in September with their Starship spacecrafts.

  In fiction

• 21st century in fiction