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2025

Current calendar year From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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.

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So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh, Ecuador, Georgia, Germany, Haiti, Somalia, and South Korea continued into this year, with the latter leading to Yoon Suk Yeol's arrest and removal from office. Several brief conflicts emerged, including one between India and Pakistan in May and another between Iran and Israel in June.

In economics and business, the return of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency ushered in a series of tariffs levied by America on most of the world, significantly disrupting global trade, in addition to reinvigorating the China–United States trade war. The technology sector was additionally hit with the release of DeepSeek's chatbot, a Chinese large language model which competes with ChatGPT. Aviation and aerospace also saw accidents this year, including when Air India Flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad, India. Several advances in space exploration were made as well, including the first crewed polar orbit spaceflight, and the first successful landing of a spacecraft on the Moon by a private company.

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Events

January

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Collapsed house in Tibet after the 2025 Tibet earthquake
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The Palisades Fire burning a structure on January 8 during the 2025 Southern California wildfires

February

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Members of the Guatemalan Army and National Civil Police participating in the search and rescue efforts following the Guatemala City bus crash on February 10
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The meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump, and JD Vance in the Oval Office on February 28, where Trump and Vance argued with Zelenskyy, increasing diplomatic tensions between their countries

March

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A rendering of Blue Ghost Mission 1 which landed on March 2
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Remains of the Pulse nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, where a fire took place on March 16, killing 62 people and injuring 195 others
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Rescue efforts at the collapsed building in Thailand caused by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake on March 28

April

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Possible biosignatures are discovered in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b (artistic impression of planet)
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Smoke billowing after the Port of Shahid Rajaee explosion on 26 April
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View from Madrid's Preciados Street towards Callao Square during the 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout on 28 April, with Preciados still dark while Callao has partial power restored

May

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Robert Francis Prevost is elected as Pope Leo XIV in the 2025 papal conclave on May 8, becoming the first North American, Peruvian citizen and Augustinian pope in the history of the Catholic Church

June

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California National Guard and protestors during the 2025 Los Angeles protests on June 9
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The wreckage of Air India Flight 171's tail section wedged into the B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad
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Explosions in Tehran during the June 2025 Israeli strikes on Iran on June 13

July

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Aerial photo of the July 2025 Central Texas floods near Hunt
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Predicted and scheduled events

Date unknown

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Births

Deaths

Nobel Prizes

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Nobel medal

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.[221]

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Notes

  1. The tomb was discovered in 2022, but the official announcement was made in February 2025.
  2. The mice were born in October 2024, but they were not disclosed to the public until March 2025.

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