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  The difference between the Millennium and year 2000
The reason why the 3rd Millennium / 21st Century starts in 2001 is because there was no year 0 (or AD 0, 0 BC).
The next (2nd) Millennium starts 1000 years after the first, that is in year 1+1000 = 1001.
The 21st Century and the 3rd Millennium by the U.S. Naval Observatory
www.timeanddate.com /counters/mil2000.html   (378 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 3rd millennium AD
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 3rd millennium AD The United States, India and China account for a third of all arable and permanent cropland in the world.
The third millennium AD is a period of time which began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 3000.
There was also a third millennium BC, which began (by the modern calendar) on January 1, 3000 BC and ended on December 31, 2001 BC.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/3rd-millennium-AD   (398 words)

  
 1184 BC
2nd millennium BC - First half 2000-1500 BC 2nd millennium BC - The break in the middle c.
The first part of the millennium is a time a bit less colorful than others, a lull in the history of Ancient Near East, still living in the shadow of greater past times, and spending all energies in trying to recuperate from the deeply anarchic situation that was at the turn of...
2nd millennium BC, 2nd millennium BC - Events, 2nd millennium BC - First half 2000-1500 BC, 2nd millennium BC - The break in the middle c.
www.experiencefestival.com /1184_bc   (2408 words)

  
 2nd millennium AD - Polsearch   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the 4th century AD, part of the province of Epirus Vetus lay on the road that linked Epiros, by way of branches of the Via Egnatia with West Macedonia, and by the Aoos valley with Thessaly and the Adriatic coast.
The songs were taken over by the Hellenes in the 2nd millennium bc, and although no fragments are known to exist, the subsequent art of the ballad singers who celebrated the actions of heroes must have developed from them.
Since the 6th or 5th millennium BC until the middle of the 2nd millennium AD, there was a constant stream of cattle-nomads to the south, for trade or for raid.
www.polsearch.com /topics/2nd-millennium-AD   (2908 words)

  
 timeline.html
A.D. AD: "Anno domini," or "in the year of our Lord"; it literally means "in the year of our Lord's birth (0) + ____."
Centuries in AD always start with a number ending with a 1, and end with a round number.
B.C. On the BC side of the timeline, the rule for moving from the year itself to the century is the same:
www.loyno.edu /~seduffy/timeline.html   (397 words)

  
 Janurary 1, 2001 is the first day of the new millennium, NOT January 1, 2000.
The millennium is not finished until the end of the 1000th year.
The end of the millennium is exactly the same.
So this millennium will not end until the end of the year 2000 (December 31, 2000, one second after 11:59:59pm).
www.americanindian.net /millennium.html   (2270 words)

  
 2nd Air Division Memorial Library
The Second Air Division Memorial Library is an outgrowth of an original idea of three senior officers of the 2nd Air Division, B/Gen Milton Arnold (2nd Combat Wing), Col. Frederick Bryan, Deputy Chief of Staff, Headquarters 2nd Air Division, and Lt. Col.
An Appeal was launched to leave a permanent memorial to the fallen comrades of the 2nd Air Division.
What resulted was the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library, which, through the Memorial Trust of the 2nd Air Division USAAF, has been funded largely through the 2nd Air Division Association which is comprised of former members of the 2nd Air Division USAAF.
www.2ndair.org.uk   (212 words)

  
 1570 BC
To grasp the spirit of the 2nd millennium BC, we must divide it in two parts, for there is a period of change around its middle so important that it creates two separate "sub-millennia".
The first part of the millennium is a time a bit less colorful than others, a lull in the history of Ancient Near East, still living...
Agriculture in Mesopotamia Domestication of sheep and goats in the Middle East Circa 8350 BC – Neolithic settlement at Jericho Timeline of Middle Eastern History - 8th millennium BC.
www.experiencefestival.com /1570_bc   (987 words)

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