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The issue arises from the difference between the convention of using ordinal numbers to count years and millennia, as in "the third millennium", or using a vernacular description, as in "the two thousands". The difference of opinion comes down to whether to celebrate, respectively, the end or the beginning of the "-000" year.
The abbreviation kyr means "thousand years". kyr was formerly common in some English language works, especially in geology and astronomy , for the unit of 1,000 years or millennium . The "k" is the unit prefix for kilo- or thousand with the suffix "yr" simply an abbreviation for "year".
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
1000 or one thousand is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. In most English-speaking countries, it can be written with or without a comma or sometimes a period separating the thousands digit: 1,000. A group of one thousand units is sometimes known, from Ancient Greek, as a chiliad. [1]
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This page is an index to individual articles for years. Years are shown in chronological order. 1st millennium BC. 10th century BC. 1000; 999 ...
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