2015

2015 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	2015; MMXV
Ab urbe condita	2768
Armenian calendar	1464; ԹՎ ՌՆԿԴ
Assyrian calendar	6765
Baháʼí calendar	171–172
Balinese saka calendar	1936–1937
Bengali calendar	1422
Berber calendar	2965
British Regnal year	63 Eliz. 2 – 64 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2559
Burmese calendar	1377
Byzantine calendar	7523–7524
Chinese calendar	甲午年 (Wood Horse); 4712 or 4505; — to —; 乙未年 (Wood Goat); 4713 or 4506
Coptic calendar	1731–1732
Discordian calendar	3181
Ethiopian calendar	2007–2008
Hebrew calendar	5775–5776
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2071–2072
- Shaka Samvat	1936–1937
- Kali Yuga	5115–5116
Holocene calendar	12015
Igbo calendar	1015–1016
Iranian calendar	1393–1394
Islamic calendar	1436–1437
Japanese calendar	Heisei 27; (平成２７年)
Javanese calendar	1948–1949
Juche calendar	104
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4348
Minguo calendar	ROC 104; 民國104年
Nanakshahi calendar	547
Thai solar calendar	2558
Tibetan calendar	阳木马年; (male Wood-Horse); 2141 or 1760 or 988; — to —; 阴木羊年; (female Wood-Goat); 2142 or 1761 or 989
Unix time	1420070400 – 1451606399

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century; 21st century ; 22nd century;
Decades:	1990s; 2000s; 2010s ; 2020s; 2030s;
Years:	2012; 2013; 2014; 2015 ; 2016; 2017; 2018;

2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Predicted events

July 1 — Earth, Venus and Jupiter will be ordered on a single line.
July 14 — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50,000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months until distance becomes too great. New Horizons will then enter the Kuiper Belt and eventually leave our Solar System.

September 9 — On this date, if Queen Elizabeth II is still queen, she will become the longest-reigning monarch in British History, surpassing Queen Victoria's 63 years on the throne.
September 13 — Partial solar eclipse.
September 21 — International Day of Peace (United Nations)

The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
The United States Navy is scheduled to commission USS Gerald R. Ford, the first ship in a new class of supercarriers.
The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles, California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
Crossrail in London, United Kingdom's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC.
The rolling stock of the Tyne and Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system — possibly incorporating street-running trams.
The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC.
The Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in Australia and New Zealand.
The Voyager 1 space probe is expected to reach the heliopause.

Doom: The Union Aerospace Corporation is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
Star Control: The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: The first Ace Combat installment for the Xbox 360. The game takes place on the Anean continent in a war between Emmeria and Estovakia.

Dr. Emmett Brown, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker travel to October 21 of this year in the film Back to the Future Part II. According to a holographic newscast, the Chicago Cubs win the World Series against a team from Miami. Inventions also include self-fitting trainers and hover-boards.

Set in 2015:
- Defenders of the Earth (1986):
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995–1996): The mysterious entities known as Angels reappear on Earth after a 15-year absence, and begin attacking the city of Tokyo-3 in sequence. The military forces of the UN and the Japanese government prove insufficient to repel the creatures, and authority in the campaign against the Angels is delegated to NERV, an international special defense agency created specifically for this purpose. Gendo Ikari, president of the Tokyo-3 headquarters of NERV, helms the operation, under supervision from the UN's top-secret SEELE committee. Using giant biomechanical organisms known as the Evangelions, NERV closely manages to kill the incoming Angels, one after the other.
Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991): Hayato Kazami becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
Space: Above and Beyond (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Past Tense," 1995): By 2015, London has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
3rd Rock from the Sun: According to Dick Solomon in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"

.hack: A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.

John Titor, a claimed time traveler from year 2036, said that World War III would begin during 2015 on his world line.

Preceded by 2014	Years 2015	Succeeded by 2016