2022


 * January 1 – Following the 2018 enactment of the Music Modernization Act, and assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before 1923 will enter the public domain in the U.S.[1]
 * February 4–20 – The 2022 Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing, China. Beijing will be the first city ever to host both the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics.
 * May 5 - The Next United Kingdom general election is scheduled to be held no later than this date, under the terms of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. This will likely be the first general election held since Brexit.
 * June – SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first BFR spaceship to Mars, paving the way to colonisation of the planet.[2][3]
 * November 21 – December 18 – The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar, to avoid the summer heat between May and September and also avoid clashing with the 2022 Winter Olympics in February.[4]

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 * Germany plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants.[5]
 * 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann will possibly cause a meteor shower.[6]
 * ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is scheduled to be launched.[7]
 * A collision of the contact binary star system KIC 9832227 will result in a luminous red nova, briefly creating one of the brightest objects in the night sky.[8]
 * Romania could join the eurozone. The target date has been set by Foreign Minister Teodor Meleșcanu.[9]
 * India plans to launch its first manned space flight by this year.[10]