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2025 (MMXXV) is the current year, and is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
Events
January
- January 1
- Bulgaria and Romania complete the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls.[1]
- Liechtenstein becomes the 37th country to legalize same-sex marriage.[2]
- Ukraine halts the transportation of Russian gas supplies through the country following the expiration of a five-year transit deal, while also becoming a state party in the International Criminal Court.[3][4]
- Fifteen people are killed (including the perpetrator) and 35 others are injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, United States.[5]
- Twelve people are killed and four more injured in a shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro.[6]
Predicted and scheduled events
- January 12 – The second round of the 2024–25 Croatian presidential election is scheduled to be held.[7]
- January 14 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will take place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.[8][9]
- January 19 – A ban on TikTok in the United States is scheduled to go into effect unless it is sold, or if the ban is overturned by the Supreme Court before then.[10]
- January 20 – Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, succeeding Joe Biden.
- January 22 – Thailand will become the 38th country to legalize same-sex marriage.[11]
- January 26 – The 2025 Belarusian presidential election is scheduled to be held.[12]
- February 9
- The 2025 Ecuadorian general election is scheduled to be held.[13]
- The 2025 Liechtenstein general election is scheduled to be held.[14]
- February 19 – March 9 – The 2025 ICC Champions Trophy will be held in Pakistan and Dubai.
- February 23 – The 2025 German federal election is scheduled to be held, after being pushed forward as a result of the 2024 German government crisis.
- March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games will take place in Turin, Italy.[15]
- March 31 – The Caribbean guilder is planned to be introduced, replacing the Netherlands Antillean guilder as the currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten.[16]
- April 13–October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka, Japan.[17]
- May 9 – May 25 – The 2025 IIHF World Championship is scheduled to take place in Stockholm, Sweden and Herning, Denmark. [18]
- May 11 – The 2025 Albanian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[19]
- May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election is scheduled to be held.[20]
- May 13–17 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 is scheduled to be held in Basel, Switzerland.[21]
- May 18 – The 2025 Polish presidential election is scheduled to be held; incumbent president Andrzej Duda is ineligible for re-election.[citation needed]
- May 25 – The 2025 Surinamese general election is scheduled to be held.[22]
- June 15 – July 13 – The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup will take place in the United States.[23]
- July 1 – Bulgaria is expected to adopt the euro and become the 21st member state of the eurozone.[24]
- July 11 – August 3 – The 2025 World Aquatics Championships will take place in Singapore.[25]
- August 7–17 – The 2025 World Games will take place in Chengdu, China.[26]
- August 17 – The 2025 Bolivian general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- September 8 – The 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election is scheduled to be held.[27]
- September 12–28 – The 2025 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship will take place in Pasay and Quezon City in the Philippines.
- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will take place in Tokyo, Japan.[citation needed]
- October 3 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg will abdicate the throne in favor of his son Guillaume, who will reign as Guillaume V.[28]
- October 20 – If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Canadian federal election will be held no later than this date.[29]
- October 26 – The 2025 Argentine legislative election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- October 27 – The 2025 Irish presidential election will be held no later than this date. Incumbent president Michael D. Higgins is ineligible for re-election.[30]
- November 21 – December 7 – The 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup will take place in the Philippines.[31]
- November 22 – The G20 Johannesburg Summit will take place, the first time a G20 summit has been held in Africa.[32]
- November 23
- The 2025 Chilean general election is scheduled to be held.[citation needed]
- If not triggered earlier, the 2025 Singaporean general election will be held no later than this date, with the current Parliament to be dissolved no later than August 24.[citation needed]
- November 27 – December 14 – The 2025 World Women's Handball Championship will take place in Germany and the Netherlands.[citation needed]
Date unknown
- An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church at Nicaea is scheduled to be held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.[33]
- Norway aims to ban the sale of all new diesel and petrol cars by this year.[34][35]
- Brazil will host the COP 30 summit.[36]
- The 2025 Venezuelan parliamentary election,[37] the 2025 Romanian presidential election,[38] the 2025 Australian federal election,[39] the 2025 Cameroonian presidential election,[citation needed] the next Bangladeshi general election,[40] and the next Czech parliamentary election[41] are all likely to be held this year.
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Laureates for Nobel Prizes in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace will be presumably announced in October, with the awards ceremony taking place on 10 December 2025.[42]
See also
References
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