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| | When Did the New Millennium Begin? |
 | | Most experts in calendrical matters will answer that the new millennium begins on the 1st of January in the year 2001, despite the fact that this answer is not the one that most people would like to hear (because, despite what the experts say, they intend to celebrate the new millennium on 1st January 2000). |
 | | The word "millennium" means "a period of 1000 years" so we can conclude that the period from 1 A.D. through 1000 A.D. (including both years) constituted one millennium, and in fact, the first millennium of the Christian era. |
 | | Strictly speaking, there is no first millennium in the astronomical system, since it simply numbers years by mapping them onto the sequence..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2,..., and we are free to begin millennia where we think fit. |
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