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2023 (MMXXIII) will be a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

• Slovenia will close down its only nuclear plant by this year.
• The last part of the Sherlock Holmes canon held under copyright anywhere (some or all of the stories in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, which are copyright in the United States under the (Sonny Bono) Copyright Term Extension Act) will fall into the public domain on 1 January.
• The Ohio Historical Society releases the love letters between Carrie Phillips and President Warren G. Harding, 100 years after the death of Harding.
• The Compact of Free Association between the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands expires.
• 1 October - The People's Republic of China will have outlasted the Soviet Union as the longest-lasting communist system (74 years, considering the Soviet Union lasted from 1917 to 1991).

[edit] 2023 in fiction

[edit] Computer and video games

• Set in 2023: Perfect Dark (2000)

[edit] Film

• Click (2006): Michael Newman uses his remote control and is unwillingly sent to 2023, among other years.

[edit] Television

• Batman Beyond (1999): Terry Mcginnis will be born in Gotham City in this year.
• The Sci-fi Anime series Silent Mobius is set in this year.