2026 (MMXXVI) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2026th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 26th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2020s decade.

• January 6 – The 2025 Jubilee will end on this day.
• February 5 – The New START Treaty is scheduled to expire.^[1]
• February 6–22 – The Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
• February–March – The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is scheduled to be held in India and Sri Lanka.
• March 6–15 – The Winter Paralympics are scheduled to be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
• April – Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972 and second mission of the Artemis Program, is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 2026.

• April 12 – The 2026 Peruvian general election is scheduled to be held.
• June 11 – July 19 – The FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
• July 4 – United States Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary)
• August – The next South African municipial elections are scheduled to be held, alternatively by November 2026.
• August 12 – A total solar eclipse is predicted to occur at the Moon's descending node of the orbit in North America and Europe. The total eclipse will pass over the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Atlantic Ocean and northern Spain.^[2]
• September 4–13 – The 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup is scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany.
• September 13 – The 2026 Swedish general election is scheduled to be held.
• September 19 – October 4 – The 2026 Asian Games will be held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
• October 4 – The 2026 Brazilian general election is scheduled to be held.
• November 3 – The United States midterm elections are scheduled to be held.
• December 22 – The 2026 South Sudanese general election is scheduled to be held, the first since the country's independence in 2011.^[3]