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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 ...
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 .
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 ...
The millennium from 1 January 1000, to 31 December 1999, almost synonymous with the 2nd millennium (1001–2000) The century from 1 January 1000, to 31 December 1099, almost synonymous with the 11th century (1001–1100) 1000s (decade), the decade from 1 January 1000, to 31 December 1009, almost synonymous with the 101st decade (1001–1010)
The first millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1 to 1000 (1st to 10th centuries; in astronomy: JD 1 721 425.5 – 2 086 667.5 [1]). The world population rose more slowly than during the preceding millennium, from about 200 million in the year 1 to about 300 million in the year 1000. [2]
2nd millennium, the second period of one thousand years in the Common Era; 3rd millennium, the period of time which began with the year 2001; Beretta 92 Billennium, a type of pistol; Unix billennium, a point in Unix time which occurred in 2001 "Billennium" (short story), a short story by J. G. Ballard
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 ...
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".