(''' MMXV ''') will be a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar .
- China is expected to overtake Japan as the 2nd largest economy in the world.
- The first plasma operation of the fusion reactor ITER is expected.
- The United States Navy is scheduled to Commission USS ''Gerald R. Ford'' , the first ship in A New Class of Supercarrier s.
- The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, in Downtown Los Angeles , California, will end, setting the local record for the longest planning project, lasting 62 years.
- Crossrail in London , United Kingdom 's first stage will open. It travels under London to west (one link) and East (2 links).
- The Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit Project should be complete, connecting Dulles Airport and the surrounding communities to Washington, DC .
- The rolling stock of the Tyne And Wear Metro system will come to the end of its useful life, and will be replaced by a more modern system — possibly incorporating street-running Trams .
- Hydrogen Vehicle s are expected to become affordable and ready to find at car dealerships by this year.
- Jane Goodall fears that by 2015, Bonobos , Chimpanzees and Gorillas will be all but gone from the wild, surviving only in zoos and in well-protected reserves.
- DARPA wishes to have one-third of all military ground vehicles automated by 2015.
- The winning nation for the 2022 Winter Olympics will be announced by the IOC .
- The Rugby World Cup is scheduled to be played (Both Scotland and Japan have applied to the IRB to host the event)
- Analog Television is scheduled to be switched off in the Philippines
- Brood XXIII (Lower Mississippi Valley Brood) of the Magicicada will emerge after a 13 year hiatus.
- Cricket World Cup is scheduled to be played in Australia and New Zealand
- '' is founded by Thomas Kelliher.
- '' Star Control '': The Small War of 2015 takes place, a war where many of humanity's nuclear weapons were used, and resolved in the isolations of the weapons. It is called the "small war" because it could have been much worse.
- Ace Combat 6 takes place in 2015 in the anean continent
- Set in 2015:
- --- '' Defenders Of The Earth '' (1986):
- --- '' in sequence. The military forces of the UN and the Japanese government prove insufficient to repel the creatures, and authority in the campaign against the Angels is delegated to NERV , an international special defense agency created specifically for this purpose. Gendo Ikari , president of the Tokyo-3 headquarters of NERV, helms the operation, under supervision from the UN's top-secret SEELE committee. Using giant biomechanical organisms known as the Evangelions , NERV closely manages to kill the incoming Angels, one after the other.
- '' becomes the youngest driver ever in Cyber formula with Sugo Grand Prix.
- '''' (1995–1996): Aerospace and defense supplier Aero-Tech is founded.
- '' has its own Major League Baseball team, the London Kings.
- '' in the episode "Angry Dick", a giant meteor is destined to collide with Earth. When he says this in his physics class and all of his students turn towards him in shock, he adds, "which obviously doesn't exist because I'm kidding!"
- '' .hack '': A fire occurs at the main CC Corp building, resulting in a large loss of data forcing The World to shut down. By splicing in data from what would have been another game, CC Corp is able to rebuild the game system, thus creating The World:R2.
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