2061 - Definition

Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s - 2060s - 2070s 2080s 2090s

Years: 2060 2061 2062 2063 2064 2065 2066 2067 2068 2069

The Decade as a Whole

This decade is expected to be called the "twenty-sixties" or "the sixties".

Events and Trends

2060

• The year that Isaac Newton predicted the apocalypse will take place.

2061

• Comet Halley makes a return to the inner solar system - the last return was in 1986.
• Expected expiration of Singapore-Malaysia Water Agreement.
• Setting of Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

2063

• In the fictional Star Trek chronology, first contact between humans and Vulcans is made on April 5 of this year. (See Zefram Cochrane.) It is also the year of the first successful Terran warp flight.

2065

• November 22 - Venus will occult Jupiter. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by an other since January 3, 1818. Unfortunately this event will be very difficult to observe, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the sun on November 22, 2065 will be only 7 degrees.