The Future
What's ahead: the elections, tournaments, launches and openings already scheduled, the round anniversaries of history's moments and lives, and a few milestones further out.
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Apr
7
2048
📜 100 years ago · The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act…
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Apr
16
2048
📜 100 years ago · The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered…
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Apr
23
2048
📜 700 years ago · The first knights of the Order of the Garter, an order of chivalry…
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May
15
2048
🎂 Omar Khayyám · born 1000 years ago
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Aug
26
2048
📜 300 years ago · The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania…
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Sep
18
2048
📜 1000 years ago · Byzantine–Seljuk wars: Byzantine forces defeated their Seljuk…
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Dec
9
2048
📜 100 years ago · The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention,…
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Dec
10
2048
📜 200 years ago · Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte won France's first presidential election,…
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Jan
30
2049
📜 400 years ago · King Charles I, who was defeated in both the First and the Second…
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Apr
16
2049
📜 250 years ago · French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces…
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May
22
2049
📜 200 years ago · Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats…
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Jun
8
2049
📜 100 years ago · Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dystopian political novel by the English…
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Aug
28
2049
🎂 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · born 300 years ago
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Sep
11
2049
📜 400 years ago · Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army…
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Sep
17
2049
📜 200 years ago · Harriet Tubman (pictured) escaped from slavery in the U.S. state of…
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Oct
1
2049
📜 100 years ago · Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly proclaimed…
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Oct
3
2049
📜 200 years ago · American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and…
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Oct
7
2049
📜 200 years ago · American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances…
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Oct
17
2049
🕯️ Frédéric Chopin · died 200 years ago
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Nov
7
2049
📜 100 years ago · Oil was discovered in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan,…
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Dec
14
2049
🕯️ George Washington · died 250 years ago
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Jan
21
2050
🕯️ George Orwell · died 100 years ago
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Feb
11
2050
🕯️ René Descartes · died 400 years ago
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Mar
27
2050
📜 200 years ago · San Diego, the first European settlement in present-day California,…
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Apr
24
2050
📜 250 years ago · The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national…
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