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A millennium (pl. millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years or one hundred decades or ten centuries, [1] [2] sometimes called a kiloannum ...
This Wikipedia page provides a comprehensive list of decades, centuries, and millennia.
From top left, clockwise: in 1492, Christopher Columbus reaches the New World, opening the European colonization of the Americas; the American Revolution, one of the late 1700s Enlightenment-inspired Atlantic Revolutions; the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople; the Atomic Bomb from World War II; an alternate source of light, the light bulb; for the first time, a human being sets foot on the ...
From top left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once-mighty Roman Empire; Kaaba, the Great Mosque of Mecca, the holiest site of Islam; Chess, a new board game, becomes popular around the globe; The Western Roman Empire falls, ushering in the Early Middle Ages; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the "ring lady ...
In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar.It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 3000 (), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.
It helps explain the “tale of two cities” of millennials. Meet the four types of millennials, from the Great Recession–blighted set to the ‘peak’ of the generation
A windfall is set to fall into the laps of millennials over the course of the coming decades, a new report suggests, shifting the power dynamic in the economy away from boomers.
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 [2]). cosmological decade: logarithmic ...