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Ash Wednesday will occur on February 29 (leap day) for the first time since the start of the Gregorian calendar in 1582. [27] 2099: The 99-year lease for Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York City is set to expire. [28] Ontario regains control of the Ontario Highway 407 when its 99-year lease expires. [29]
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The start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium was celebrated worldwide at the start of the year 2000. One year later, at the start of the year 2001, the celebrations had largely returned to the usual ringing in of just another new year, [ 8 ] although some welcomed "the real millennium", including America's official timekeeper, the U.S ...
In his 1990 book The New Millennium, Robertson suggests this date as the day of Earth's destruction. [177] 2010 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: This magical organization, which existed from 1887 to 1903, predicted the world would end during this year. [178] 21 May 2011 Harold Camping
The millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events to celebrate and commemorate the end of 1999 and the start of the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar.
These timelines begin at the start of the 4th millennium in 3001 CE, and continue until the furthest and most remote reaches of future time. They include alternative future events that address unresolved scientific questions, such as whether humans will become extinct , whether the Earth survives when the Sun expands to become a red giant and ...
It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World. The period ends with the beginning of the Age of Revolutions.
The new millennium that Rome entered was called the saeculum novum, [6] a term that received a metaphysical connotation in Christianity, referring to the worldly age (hence "secular"). [7] Roman emperors legitimised their political authority by referring to the saeculum in various media, linked to a golden age of imperial glory.