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.
Events 1060 totals
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Feb
11
2090
📜 100 years ago · Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela, having been a political…
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Feb
14
2090
📜 100 years ago · The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured),…
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Mar
7
2090
📜 100 years ago · Teachers in West Virginia began a labor strike that involved several…
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Mar
20
2090
📜 200 years ago · Emperor Wilhelm II dismissed Otto von Bismarck as the chancellor of…
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Apr
17
2090
🕯️ Benjamin Franklin · died 300 years ago
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Apr
24
2090
📜 100 years ago · The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space…
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May
15
2090
📜 100 years ago · Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at…
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Jun
10
2090
📜 900 years ago · Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa (pictured), Holy Roman Emperor,…
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Jun
17
2090
🕯️ Frederick Barbarossa · died 900 years ago
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Jun
21
2090
📜 200 years ago · Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay was published.
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Jul
16
2090
📜 300 years ago · President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a…
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Jul
17
2090
🕯️ Adam Smith · died 300 years ago
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Jul
29
2090
🕯️ Vincent van Gogh · died 200 years ago
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Jan
5
2091
📜 100 years ago · Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital,…
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Apr
4
2091
📜 250 years ago · William Henry Harrison became the first U.S. president to die in…
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May
6
2091
📜 100 years ago · Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and…
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May
21
2091
📜 100 years ago · Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a…
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Aug
1
2091
📜 100 years ago · U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian…
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Aug
23
2091
📜 100 years ago · The World Wide Web was opened to the public.
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Sep
7
2091
📜 900 years ago · Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid…
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Sep
9
2091
📜 300 years ago · The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States'…
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Sep
22
2091
🎂 Michael Faraday · born 300 years ago
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Sep
30
2091
📜 300 years ago · Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in…
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Oct
1
2091
📜 200 years ago · Stanford University, founded by railroad magnate and politician…
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Oct
3
2091
📜 100 years ago · Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel…
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