2018

This article is about the year 2018.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century 21st century 22nd century
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

2018 by topic:

Arts

Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television – Video gaming

Politics

Elections – Int'l leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors

Science and technology

Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight

Sports

Association football (soccer) – Athletics (track and field) – Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Boxing – Cricket – Golf – Horse racing – Ice hockey – Motorsport – Road cycling – Rugby league – Rugby union – Table tennis – Tennis – Volleyball

By place

Afghanistan – Algeria – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Chile – China – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Latvia – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – Moldova – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Poland – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Serbia – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sweden – Taiwan – Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela – Vietnam

Other topics

Awards – Law – Religious leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain

2018 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	2018 MMXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2771
Armenian calendar	1467 ԹՎ ՌՆԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6768
Bahá'í calendar	174–175
Balinese saka calendar	1939–1940
Bengali calendar	1425
Berber calendar	2968
British Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	2562
Burmese calendar	1380
Byzantine calendar	7526–7527
Chinese calendar	丁酉年 (Fire Rooster) 4714 or 4654     — to — 戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4715 or 4655
Coptic calendar	1734–1735
Discordian calendar	3184
Ethiopian calendar	2010–2011
Hebrew calendar	5778–5779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2074–2075
- Shaka Samvat	1939–1940
- Kali Yuga	5118–5119
Holocene calendar	12018
Igbo calendar	1018–1019
Iranian calendar	1396–1397
Islamic calendar	1439–1440
Japanese calendar	Heisei 30 (平成３０年)
Javanese calendar	1951–1952
Juche calendar	107
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4351
Minguo calendar	ROC 107 民國107年
Nanakshahi calendar	550
Thai solar calendar	2561
Unix time	1514764800 – 1546300799

2018 (MMXVIII) will be a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 3rd millennium, the 18th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2010s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

• February 9–25 – The 2018 Winter Olympics are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• March – NASA plans to launch the exoplanet-seeking TESS mission.
• March 9–18 – The 2018 Winter Paralympics are scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
• May 5 – Launch of NASA's InSight is scheduled.
• June 14 – July 15 – 2018 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Russia.
• July 27 – Mars will make its closest approach to Earth since 2003. It will not be as close as the 2003 opposition.
• October – Unmanned European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft will be launched to Mercury.
• October – The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which was launched in 1990.
• October – The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.
• November 26 – Landing of InSight on Mars is expected.
• NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of its Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011.
• Super computers are projected to reach 1 Exaflop.
• The U.S. missile defense complex in Poland will be operational.
• The London Convention, which prevents sea dumping, expires.
• The Helium Centennial Time Columns Monument is expected to be opened 50 years after the time capsule was locked in 1968.
• Expected completion of the Copenhagen City Circle Line.
• NASA's Solar Probe Plus will orbit the Sun.
• Israel will begin to release classified information held in its state archives from the first two decades of its existence.
• JAXA's robotic SELENE-2 lunar mission is expected to be launched in 2018.
• Two space tourists will fly around the Moon in a Falcon Heavy rocket. This marks the first time that humans have ventured beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972.