2021 (MMXXI) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,

the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st
year of the 3rd millennium, the 21st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of
the 2020s decade.

The United Nations has declared 2021 as the International Year of Peace and Trust,
[1] the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development,[2] the
International Year of Fruits and Vegetables,[3] and the International Year for the
Elimination of Child Labour.[4]

2021 is scheduled to host most major events that were originally scheduled for
2020, including the Eurovision Song Contest, UEFA Euro 2020, 2020 Summer Olympics,
and Expo 2020, but were postponed or canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]

Predicted and scheduled events

January – The Workers' Party of Korea is scheduled to convene its 8th Congress in
North Korea.
January 1 – Munster Technological University is scheduled to open in Ireland.[6]
January 3 – The 117th United States Congress is scheduled to convene and certify
the Electoral College results of the 2020 United States presidential election.
January 20 – Joe Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated for a four-year term as
President of the United States, along with Kamala Harris as Vice President.[7]
January 23 – The Democratic Party of Socialists is scheduled to convene its 8th
Special Congress in Montenegro, the first one after its fall from power, after
ruling the country for 30 years.
January 31 – The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards are scheduled to be held in the United
States.[8]
February 7 – Super Bowl LV is scheduled to be held at Raymond James Stadium in
Tampa Bay, Florida in the United States.
February 28 – The 78th Golden Globe Awards are scheduled to be held in the United
States.
March 8 – A murder trial is scheduled to begin for the four police officers
involved in the killing of George Floyd.[9]
March 17 – The Dutch General Elections for the House of Representatives of the
Netherlands are scheduled to take place.
April 18 – The 2021 Finnish Municipal elections were held in Finland.
April 19 – Raúl Castro plans to resign as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist
Party, ending 62 years of rule by the Castro brothers in Cuba.[10]
April 25 – The 93rd Academy Awards are scheduled to be held in Los Angeles.
May 6 – The United Kingdom is scheduled to hold a series of local elections,
including elections to the Welsh Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the London
Assembly, and the mayorship of London.
May 18 – 22 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is scheduled to be held in
Rotterdam, Netherlands after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-
19 pandemic.[11][12]
May 20 – June 12 – 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup will be held in Indonesia.[13]
May 26 – The second-shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century will occur,
lasting just 14 minutes and 30 seconds long.[14]
June 10 – Annular solar eclipse.[15]
June 11 – July 11 – The UEFA Euro 2020 is scheduled to be held across Europe, and
the 2021 Copa América to be held in Argentina and Colombia. Both competitions were
rescheduled from June 12, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[16][17]
June 18 – Israel is scheduled to hold a presidential election.
July 3 – August 7 – The British and Irish Lions begin their tour to South Africa.
July 23 – August 8 – The 2020 Summer Olympics are scheduled to be held in Tokyo,
Japan. They were rescheduled from July 24, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18]
September 1 – Singapore plans to prohibit the ivory trade on this date.
September 5 – The Hong Kong Special Administration Region in China is scheduled to
hold an election for the Legislative Council. 2021 Dutch Grand Prix formula 1.
September 13 - Norway plans a parliamentary election. All seats in the Norwegian
Storting will be up for election.
October 1 – The 2020 World Expo is scheduled to take place. It was rescheduled from
October 20, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[19]
October 1 – October 31 – The Russian Federation plans to hold a nationwide census.
October 22 – Japan is scheduled to hold a general election for the House of
Representatives.
October 23 – November 27 – The 2021 Rugby League World Cup is scheduled to take
place in England.[20]
October 24 – Germany is scheduled to hold a federal election for the Bundestag no
later than this date.
October 31 – NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the
Space Telescope Science Institute plan to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, a
successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
November – Planned launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the first
integrated flight of the agency's Orion MPCV and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
[21][importance?]
November 1 – November 12 – The 2021 UN Climate Change Conference is scheduled to
take place in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was rescheduled from November
9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[22]
December 4 – Total solar eclipse.[23]
Date unknown
The Polish Parliament assigned several patrons for year of 2021, so that 2021 is to
be known as the Stanisław Lem Year, Stefan Wyszyński Year, Cyprian Norwid Year,
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Year, Tadeusz Różewicz Year, as well as the Constitution
of 3 May Year in Poland.[24]
The European Union will abolish daylight saving time.
The National Institute for Health Protection will begin operations in the United
Kingdom.
GB News, a 24-hour television news channel, will begin broadcasting in the United
Kingdom.
The television network France 4 will cease broadcasting in France.
China will begin construction of a large modular space station.
Armenia is scheduled to hold a constitutional referendum.
The Large Hadron Collider will recommence operations after a period of renovations.
In the US, Brood X, the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas,
will emerge for the first time since 2004.[25]
Costa Rica is planned to become a completely carbon-neutral nation (date set by
President Óscar Arias) and ban "single use" plastic products (date set by President
Luis Guillermo Solís).[26][27]
The Grand Egyptian Museum, described as the largest archaeological museum in the
world, is expected to be completed.[28]
Science first light of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is anticipated for 2021 with
full science operations to begin a year later.[29][30][31]
Plan S, an initiative for open-access science publishing launched in 2018,[32][33]
requires that from 2021 papers from over 10 European countries that resulted from
research funded by public grants must be published under an open licence in
compliant journals or platforms, available to all.[34][35]
ISRO have planned to launch Chandrayaan-3 mission to moon in march 2021 calendar.