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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 .
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 ...
The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Classical antiquity – Broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome ...
A goldfish named Tish lived for 43 years after being won at a fairground in 1956. [100] A koi fish named Hanako reportedly died at 226 years old in 1977, making her the longest-lived koi fish ever recorded. [101] However, there is uncertainty as to the veracity of her longevity, with Snopes reporting that no conclusive evidence of her age could ...
The geologic time scale is a way of representing deep time based on events that have occurred throughout Earth's history, a time span of about 4.54 ± 0.05 Ga (4.54 billion years). [3] It chronologically organises strata, and subsequently time, by observing fundamental changes in stratigraphy that correspond to major geological or ...
This page is an index to individual articles for years. Years are shown in chronological order. 1st millennium BC. 10th century BC. 1000; 999 ...
The Amazon's ancient complex of 'lost cities' flourished for a thousand years. ... rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published ...
Especially in the early part of the list, these reigns often span thousands of years. In the oldest known version, dated to the Ur III period (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC) but probably based on Akkadian source material, the SKL reflected a more linear transition of power from Kish, the first city to receive kingship, to Akkad.