4th millennium
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| Millennia: | 3rd millennium - 4th millennium - 5th millennium |
Centuries
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The Earth will experience 2366 solar eclipses.
- 3126 July 22: Venus occults Regulus
- 3187 October 21: Venus occults Regulus
- 3230 October 8: Venus occults Spica
- 3414 October 25: Venus occults Regulus
- 3711/12: multi-triple conjunction between Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- 3982 August 27: Mercury occults Regulus
Fiction
- The novel [[3001: The Final Odyssey]] is largely carried out in 3001 and the years following.
- Around the year 3200, according to the future in the novels of Isaac Asimov, the planet Solaria will be settled from Nexon. Around the same time, the scientist Han Falstofe will create the android R. Daneel Olivaw, future Eminence Grise of the Galaxy.
- Around the year 3500, again according to Isaac Asimov's Future History, R. Daneel Olivaw will meet Elijah Baley and assist him in solving a homicide - events that will have long-lasting consequences.
- Around 3505 the second wave of human expansion from Earth into the rest of the Galaxy will begin, also according to Asimov.
- In the year 3535, according to the song "In The Year 2525", all of one's thoughts, words and actions will be pre-programmed in a daily pill.
- In the year 3781, according to Walter Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz" a second nuclear holocaust destroys the Earth.
- Some say the year 3797 (or 3786 according to others) is the year Nostradamus claims will be the end of the world.
- 3798 is the year in which Michael Wang's "The Cosmos" mostly takes place.
- The year 3950 is the predicted year that the huge garbage ball that the people in the show Futurama used to knock the first giant garbage ball from the year 2052 into the sun will return.
- The film Planet of the Apes and its first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, are set in the year 3978.
- The year 4000 is the time for the classic comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter created by Russ Manning. In this series, all of North America has become a single great city named North Am, with buildings commonly reaching a mile (a kilometer and a half) in height.
- According to South Park, God will come back to Earth.
- The Marvel Comics Super-villain Kang the Conqueror rules the Earth in the 41st century according to the comics.
References
- [Occultations of Regulus by planets]
- [Occultations of bright stars by inner planets]
- [Triple planetary conjunctions]
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