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2025 (MMXXV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- January
- The state funeral of Former US President Jimmy Carter (died December 29, 2024)
- January 1
- Bulgaria and Romania will finalize the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls.[1]
- Liechtenstein will become the 39th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
- January 14 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will take place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.[2][3]
- January 19 – TikTok will be or be not banned in the United States.
- January 22 – Thailand will become the 40th country to legalize same sex marriage.
- January 26 – The 2025 Belarusian presidential election is scheduled to be held.[4]
- February 9
- The 2025 Ecuadorian general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- The 2025 Liechtenstein general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- February 23 – The 2025 German federal election is scheduled to be held, after being pushed forward as a result of the 2024 German government crisis.
- March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.[5]
- March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is planned to be introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[6]
- April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[7]
- May 11 – The 2025 Albanian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled to be held.[8]
- May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is scheduled to be held in Basel, Switzerland.[9]
- May 17 – 2025 Australian federal election: Latest possible date for a simultaneous House and half-Senate election. If the elections are held separately, the House election could be as late as September 27, but it's unlikely there would be separate elections for the House and half-Senate.[citation needed]
- May 18 – The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held; incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election.[citation needed]
- June 15 – July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in the United States.[citation needed]
- July 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone.[10]
- July 11 – August 3 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships will take place in Singapore.[citation needed]
- August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games will take place in Chengdu, China.[citation needed]
- August 17 – The 2025 Bolivian general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- September 8 – 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan.[citation needed]
- October 3 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg will abdicate the throne in favor of his son Guillaume, who will reign as Guillaume V.[11]
- October 20 – If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Canadian federal election will be held no later than this date.[12]
- October 26 – The 2025 Argentine legislative election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- October 27 – The 2025 Irish presidential election will be held no later than this date. Incumbent president Michael D. Higgins is ineligible for re-election.[13]
- November 23
- The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Singaporean general election will be held no later than this date, with the current Parliament to be dissolved no later than August 24.[citation needed]
- November 27 – December 14 – The 2025 World Women's Handball Championship will take place in Germany and the Netherlands.[citation needed]
Date unknown
[edit]- October – The next Czech parliamentary election will be held.[citation needed]
- An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church at Nicaea is scheduled to be held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[14]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[15][16]
- South Africa will host the G20 summit, the first nation in Africa to do so.[citation needed]
- Brazil will host the COP 30 summit.[17]
- The 2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Statement by the European Commission on the occasion of Bulgaria and Romania becoming fully part of Schengen". European Commission - European Commission. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
- ^ "2025 IHF Men's Handball World Championship". visitnorway.com. Archived from the original on November 11, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ "Host cities and schedule announced for the 2025 IHF Men's World Championship". International Handball Federation. April 8, 2024. Archived from the original on November 13, 2024. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ "Belarus to Hold Next Presidential Election on Jan. 26". The Moscow Times. October 23, 2024. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ "Nomination open for Torino 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games". Special Olympics Great Britain. December 12, 2023. Archived from the original on December 17, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Willemstad: Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
- ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- ^ "COMELEC Guide: How to register for 2025 Philippine Elections". assistance.ph. March 5, 2024. Archived from the original on June 21, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
- ^ "Basel 2025". Eurovision.tv. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ "The National Assembly adopted at first reading a bill for the introduction of the euro in the Republic of Bulgaria". Sofia, Bulgaria: National Assembly. July 26, 2024. Archived from the original on August 8, 2024. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ^ "Grand Duke Henri confirms date of retirement". Luxembourg Times. December 24, 2024. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ^ "An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act". LegisINFO. May 3, 2007. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 26, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
- ^ Matthews, Jane (December 26, 2024). "We'll have a new President in the Áras next year — here are some names that might be running". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- ^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?". Commonweal Magazine. Archived from the original on July 8, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
- ^ Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words". Quartz. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- ^ "Norway is electric". Government.no. Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Archived from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30)". SDG Knowledge Hub. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
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