26th century

The XXVI century d. C. (26th century AD) or XXVI century e. c. (26th century CE) is the sixth century of the 3rd millennium in the Gregorian calendar. It will start on January 1, 2501 and end on December 31, 2600.

Astronomical predictions

List of long total eclipses of the Sun

• 14 June 2504: Total Sun eclipse (7 min 10 s), of the 145 saros.
• June 25, 2522: Total Eclipse of Sol, (7 min 12 s), of the 145 saros, “coronando” this series.
• July 5, 2540: Total Eclipse of Sol, (7 min 04 s), of the 145 saros.
• July 17, 2558: Total Eclipse of Sol, (6 min 43 s), of the 145 saros.
• August 6, 2567: Total Eclipse of Sol, (6 min 26 s), of saros 164.
• August 16, 2585: Total Eclipse of Sol, (6 min 17 s), of saros 164.

Other astronomical phenomena

• April 7, 2515: 10:37 UTC Mars will hide Neptune.
• January 25, 2518: to 22:41 UTC Venus will hide Saturn.
• 2599: Triple conjunction Mars-Jupiter.

Society

• 2544: end of the conviction of Manuel Contreras, former director of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA), appointed by Augusto Pinochet.

Music

• The song Dream of the Spanish group La Oreja de Van Gogh named this century in the phrase: «and again see San Sebastian in the 20th centuryVI from my spacecraft».

• The U.S. group Zager & Evans makes up the theme that it carries by name In the year 2525 which reached No. 1 of the musical lists in 1969 in the USA. United States and United Kingdom for six consecutive weeks.

• The Spanish group Second has an album theme Russian Mountain Call 2502 whose letter happens in that year.

Science

• 2600: The physicist Stephen Hawking estimates the end of civilization by overpopulation and energy demand.

Science Fiction

• Much of the Halo Universe events are set in this century (e.g. 2525, 2552 and 2589).
• Almost all videogame events StarCraft they take place in this century.
• The television series Pluto B.R.B. Nero is set in the year 2530.
• The television series Firefly is reported in 2517.
• The Serenity film is reported at this time.
• The video game series F-Zero It is set at this time.
• In the television series Futurama the city of New York is destroyed for the second time around the year 2500.
• The sleeve and anime TrigunIt happens during this century. Some humans, after going through space and being torn down their ship, fall into a desert planet, along with that, take into account the artificial creation of human beings.
• The movie Idiocracy, rolled in 2005, is based on the world of 2505.
• The video game series Mega Man ZX occurs in this century, along with its events.
• In the television series Wayward Pines we see humanity in danger of extinction in the year 2514
• The events of the Dead Space saga take place during this century.
• The film, anime and manga Battle Angel Alita are set in the year 2563.
• In the book A happy world of Aldous Huxley in the year 2540 is achieved advanced technology and the population is controlled by a drug called Soma