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2023 (MMXXIII) will be a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 23rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.

Predicted and scheduled events

  • OSIRIS-REx is expected to return with samples from the Asteroid Bennu in the Apollo group.
  • Kanal İstanbul will be finished.
  • London's new £4.1 billion "super sewer" will be finished, upgrading the existing Victorian infrastructure.
  • The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
  • Due to the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, assuming that there are no further changes in copyright law in the United States, Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie as well as two other Mickey Mouse short films released in 1928 will fall into the public domain in the United States.
  • According to words of Turkey's president (formerly a prime minister) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, if the countries of the European Union will not accept Turkey as a member before the year 2023, Turkey would no longer be a candidate to the union.

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