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The millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events to celebrate and commemorate the end of 1999 and the start of the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. The celebrations were held as marking the end of the 2nd millennium, the 20th century, and the 1990s decade, and the start of the 3rd millennium, the 21st century, and ...
The 2nd millennium of the Anno Domini or Common Era was a millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000. It began on 1 January 1001 and ended on 31 December 2000 , (11th to 20th centuries; in astronomy: JD 2 086 667.5 – 2 451 909.5).
The end of the second Christian millennium is an appropriate time to examine the significance of the holy years which acted as landmarks to divide periods of history in the Bible, in particular the sabbatical year (every seven years) and the jubilee year (every fifty years), and to reflect on their meaning for us as we prepare to celebrate the ...
On 1st January 2000, people celebrated the end of the 20th century and indeed the second millennium and welcomed the dawn of a whole new millennium. Problems resulting from the so-called Y2K bug proved to be far fewer than some experts had feared.
The Millennium celebrations were a worldwide, coordinated series of events celebrating New Year's Eve in 1999–2000, marking the end of the second millennium and beginning of the new, third millennium.
The second millennium was a period of time that began on January 1, 1001 of the Julian calendar and ended on December 31, 2000 of the Gregorian calendar. It was the second period of one thousand years in the Anno Domini or Common Era.
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As we come to the end of the second millennium, however, we are aware of the subjective foundations of the Christian calendar, and of the legendary character of the data used by Dionysius Exiguus. The date of 25 December for celebrating the birthday of Jesus cannot be traced back with any certainty beyond 336 AD, and has no historical ...
