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  2. Millennium - Wikipedia

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    Those holding that the arrival of the new millennium should be celebrated in the transition from 2000 to 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2000, to January 1, 2001) argued that the Anno Domini system of counting years began with the year 1 (there was no year 0) and therefore the first millennium was from the year 1 to the end of the year 1000, the ...

  3. List of numbers in Hindu scriptures - Wikipedia

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    432,000 years [27] Duration of lifetime of human in Satya yuga: around 100,000 years. [28] Duration of lifetime of human in Tretā-yuga: around 10,000 years [29] Duration of lifetime of human in Dvāpara-yuga: around 1,000 years. [30] Duration of lifetime of human in Kali-yuga: around 100 years which will be reduced gradually to 20 years )

  4. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    His 100-year life (311.04 trillion years) is called a mahā-kalpa, which is followed by a mahā-pralaya (full dissolution) of equal length, where the bases of the universe, prakriti, is manifest at the start and unmanifest at the end of a maha-kalpa. His 100-year life is divided into two 50-year periods, each called a parārdha.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    About 31,709 years. megaannum: 10 6 yr: Also called "megayear". 1000 millennia (plural of millennium), or 1 million years (in geology, abbreviated as Ma). petasecond: 10 15 s: About 31 709 791 years. galactic year: 2.3 × 10 8 yr: The amount of time it takes the Solar System to orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (approx 230 000 000 years ...

  6. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu mathematicians who calculated the best way to adjust the two years, over long periods of a yuga (era, tables calculating 1000s of years), they determined that the best means to intercalate the months is to time the intercalary months on a 19-year cycle, similar to the Metonic cycle used in the Hebrew calendar. This intercalation is ...

  8. AD 1000 - Wikipedia

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    1000 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the 10th century, and the 1st year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1000, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the ...

  9. 1000 (number) - Wikipedia

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    A period of one thousand years may be known as a chiliad or, more often from Latin, as a millennium. The number 1000 is also sometimes described as a short thousand in medieval contexts where it is necessary to distinguish the Germanic concept of 1200 as a long thousand. It is the first 4-digit integer.