2023 (battybarney2014's version)

Predicted and scheduled events

 * January 1 – March 31 – Expo 2023 is scheduled in Buenos Aires.
 * September 8 – October 21 – 2023 Rugby World Cup is scheduled in France.
 * November 7 - Elections in the United States will select 2 state governors and various state and local officials.

Date unknown

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Sweden is likely to become a cashless society by 2023, according to a prediction by then deputy governor Cecilia Skingsley of Riksbank.

In fiction

 * 21st century in fiction