5366 August 27: Venus occults Aldebaran, the first occultation of Aldebaran by a planet since July 15, 18,980 BC.
5898 August 30: Venus occults Regulus.
c. 5965: the SNAP-10A falls back to Earth after 4000 years.
5974 September 25: Mercury occults Regulus.
Science predictions
5200: Formation of a Type II civilization under the Kardashev scale, according to Kardashev's extrapolation of 1% energy usage growth per year.
Science fiction
In the science fiction/fantasy series The Pendragon Adventure, the territory (dimension) of Third Earth exists in 5010, the future of Second Earth (and in that sense, First Earth as well, which takes place in 1937). It is presented as a utopian society, with almost every man-made structure situated underground or in space, leaving the surface of the Earth to flourish.