Millennium

For other uses, see Millennium (disambiguation).

A millennium (pl. -ni⋅ums, -ni⋅a) is a period of time equal to one thousand years (from Latin mille, thousand, and annus, year) numerically to a particular dating system, specifically ones that begin at the starting (initial reference) point of the calendar in question (typically the year 1) or in later years which are whole number multiples of a thousand years after it. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Frequently in the latter case (and sometimes also in the former) it may have religious or theological implications (see Millenarianism). Especial

Contents 1 Counting years 1.1 Ordinal 1.2 Ranges 2 Debate over millennium celebrations 2.1 Arbitrarity 2.2 Viewpoint 1: x001–y000 2.3 Viewpoint 2: x000–x999 2.4 Popular approach 2.5 Commentary 3 See also 4 References 5 External links // Counting years Ordinal

The original method of counting years was ordinal, whether 1st year A.D. or regnal 10th year of King Henry VIII. This ordinal numbering is still present in the names of the millennia and centuries, for example 1st Millennium or the 20th century, and sometimes in the names of decades, e.g. 1st decade of the 21st century.

Ranges

A change from ordinals to cardinals is incomplete and might not ever be completed; the main issues arise from the content of the various year ranges. Similar issues affect the contents of centuries. Decades are usually referred to by their leading numbers and are therefore immune to this controversy: the decade called 1990s would by its naming not include 2000. Similarly the 100 years comprising the 1900s share 99 years in common with the 20th century, but do not include 2000.

Those following ordinal year names naturally choose

2001–2100 as the current century 2001–3000 as the current millennium

Those following cardinal year names equally naturally choose

2000–2099 as the current century 2000–2999 as the current millennium Debate over millennium celebrations

The common Western calendar, i.e. the Gregorian calendar, has been defined with counting origin 1. Thus each period of 1,000 years concludes with a year number with three zeroes, e.g. the first thousand years in the Western calendar included the year 1000. However, there are two viewpoints about how millennia should be thought of in practice, one which relies on the formal operation of the calendar and one which appeals to other notions that attract popular sentiment. A number of countries have legally adopted ISO 8601, also used in other contexts, which uses the astronomical calendar in which year counting starts at 0. Thus, when using this calendar, the millennium starts at x000 and ends at x999. There was a popular debate leading up to the celebrations of the year 2000 as to whether the beginning of that year should be understood (and celebrated) as the beginning of a new millennium. Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous decades, centuries, and millennia. The issue is tied to the convention of using ordinal numbers to count millennia (as in "the third millennium"), as opposed to using cardinal numbers (as in "the two thousands"), which is unambiguous as it does not depend on which year counting starts. The first convention is common in English speaking countries, but the latter is favored in for example Sweden ("tvåtusentalet").

Arbitrarity

As a side-note to the debate on timing of the turn of the millennium, the arbitrariness of the era itself can be raised. The Gregorian calendar is a secularized, de facto standard, based on a significant Christian event, the purported date of Jesus' birth; thus the foundation of the calendar may not be as relevant to non-Christians. The calendar is one among many still in use and those used historically. Adjustments and errors in the calendar (such as Dionysius Exiguus's incorrect calculation of A.D. 1) make the particular dates we use today arbitrary.

Viewpoint 1: x001–y000

Those holding that the arrival of new millennium should be celebrated in the transition from 2000 to 2001 (i.e. December 31, 2000), argued that since the Gregorian Calendar has no year zero, the millennia should be counted from A.D. 1. Thus the first period of one thousand complete years runs from the beginning of A.D. 1 to the end of A.D. 1000, and the beginning of the second millennium took place at the beginning of 1001. The second millennium thus ends at the end of the year 2000. Then again, those who defend the opposite idea state that the new millennium started with the year 2000 (because of the changes made to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, or because the first millennium started in 1 A.D. and ended in 999 A.D., being the only millennium (along with the last millennium b.c.) not with 1000 years, but with 999 years).

Illustration of years with a 00–01 demarcation 2 BC 1 BC AD 1 AD 2 3 4 5 ... 998 999 1000 1001 1002 ... 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ... 2998 2999 3000 3001 3002 First one thousand years (millennium) Second millennium Third millennium

Arthur C. Clarke gave this analogy (from a statement received by Reuters): "If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?" This statement illustrates the common confusion about the calendar. If one counts from the beginning of A.D. 1 to the ending of A.D. 1000, one would have counted 1000 years. The next 1000 years (millennium) would begin on the first day of 1001. So the calendar has not 'cheated' anyone out of a year. In other words, the argument is based on the fact that the last year of the first two thousand years in the Gregorian Calendar was 2000, not 1999.

Viewpoint 2: x000–x999

The "year 2000" has also been a popular phrase referring to an often utopian future, or a year when stories in such a future were set, adding to its cultural significance. There was also media and public interest in the Y2K bug. Thus, the populist argument was that the new millennium should begin when the zeroes of 2000 "rolled over," i.e. December 31, 1999. People felt that the change of hundred digit in the year number, and the zeros rolling over, created a sense that a new century had begun. This is similar to the common demarcation of decades by their most significant digits, e.g. naming the period 1980 to 1989 as the 1980s or "the eighties." Similarly, it would be valid to celebrate the year 2000 as a cultural event in its own right, and name the period 2000 to 2999 as "the 2000s." Most historians agree that Dionysius nominated Christ's birth as December 25 of the year before AD 11. This corresponded with the belief that the birth year itself was considered too holy to mentioncitation needed. It also corresponds to the notion that AD 1 was "the first year of his life," as distinguished from being the year after his first birthday. Similarly in AD 1000 the church actively discouraged any mention of that year and in modern times it labelled AD 2000 as the "Jubilee Year 2000" marking the 2000th anniversary of the birth of Christ. The AD system counts years with origin 1. Some assume a preceding Year 0 for the start of the first Christian millennium in order to start the millennia in year numbers multiple of 1000. This results in such first millennium containing only 999 Gregorian years.

Illustration of years with a 99–00 demarcation using Year zero (ISO 8601 and astronomical numbering system) −1 AD  0   1   2   3   4   5   ...   998   999  1000 1001 1002 ... 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ... 2998 2999 3000 3001 3002 First millennium (1000 years) Second millennium Third millennium Illustration of years with a 99–00 demarcation (starting AD 1) 1 BC 1 AD  2   3   4   5   ...   998   999  1000 1001 1002 ... 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ... 2998 2999 3000 3001 3002 First millennium (999 years only) Second millennium Third millennium Popular approach

The majority popular approach was to treat the end of 1999 as the end of a millennium, and to hold millennium celebrations at midnight between December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000, as per viewpoint 2. The cultural and psychological significance of the events listed above combined to cause celebrations to be observed one year earlier than the formal Gregorian date. This does not, of course, establish that insistence on the formal Gregorian date is "incorrect", though some view it as pedantic (as in the comment of Douglas Adams mentioned below). Some event organisers hedged their bets by calling their 1999 celebrations things like "Click" referring to the odometer-like rolling over of the nines to zeros. A second approach was to adopt two different views on the millennium problem and celebrate the new millennium twice.

Commentary Stephen Jay Gould noted in his essay Dousing Diminutive Dennis' Debate (or DDDD = 2000) (Dinosaur in a Haystack) that celebrations and media announcements marked the turn into the twentieth century along the 1900–1901 border (citing, amongst other examples, the New York Times headline "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry"). He also included comments on adjustments to the calendar, such as those by Dionysius Exiguus (the eponymous Diminutive Dennis), the timing of celebrations over different transitional periods, and the "high" versus "pop" culture interpretation of the transition. Further of his essays on this topic are collected in Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown. In the editorial to 2002's Best American Essays Gould highlights the use of historical events, rather than transitional dates, to delineate periods of history: "Many commentators have stated — quite correctly in my view — that the twentieth century did not truly begin in 1900 or 1901, by any standard of historical continuity, but rather at the end of World War I, the great shatterer of illusions about progress and human betterment... I suspect that future chroniclers will date the inception of the third millennium from September 11, 2001." Douglas Adams highlighted the sentiment that those in favour of a 2001 celebration were pedantic spoilsports in his short web-article Significant Events of the Millennium. This sentiment was also demonstrated when, in 1997, Australian Prime Minister John Howard made a point in favour of the 2001 celebration and was named "the party pooper of the century" by local newspapers. In an episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld entitled "The Millennium," Jerry states, "since there was no year zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year two-thousand and one."2 In TV show The X-Files episode called "Millennium", continuing the TV series of the same name, Scully mentions that the new millennium doesn't start until January 1, 2001. She is made fun of, but not suggested to be incorrect, when Mulder responds, "No one likes a math geek, Scully." The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation on the False Millennium by Edward Gorey takes place on December 31, 1999 and refers to the next coming year as the start of the new millennium, despite the fact that the title of the book calls it the "False Millennium." Jeopardy! game show host Alex Trebek proudly welcomed his guests and contestants to the "first day of the twenty-first century" on the January 1, 2001 episode. See also List of calendars Decade Century Millennialism Millennium Dome Millenarianism Third millennium White House Millennium Council Y2K References ^ History Today June 1999 p60 Letters, Darian Hiles: "Of Dates and Decimals" ^ Seinfeld script: The Millennium External links Look up millennium or millennia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. v • d • e Time measurement and standards Major subjects Time · Chronometry · Orders of magnitude · Metrology Time Portal International standards UTC · UT · TAI · ISO 31-1 · DUT1 · Leap second · IERS · Terrestrial Time · Geocentric Coordinate Time · Barycentric Coordinate Time · Civil time · 12-hour clock · 24-hour clock · ISO 8601 · International Date Line · Solar time · Time zone · Daylight saving time · Time offset Obsolete standards Ephemeris time · Barycentric Dynamical Time · Greenwich Mean Time · Prime Meridian Time in physics Spacetime · Chronon · Cosmological decade · Planck epoch · Planck time · T-symmetry · Theory of relativity · Time dilation · Gravitational time dilation · Coordinate time · Proper time · Time domain · Continuous time · Discrete time · Absolute time and space Horology Clock · Astrarium · Atomic clock · Hourglass · Marine chronometer · Radio clock · Sundial · Watch · Water clock · History of timekeeping devices · Equation of time · Complication · Marine sandglass Calendar Astronomical · Julian · Gregorian · Islamic · Lunisolar · Solar · Lunar · Epact · Intercalation · Leap year · Tropical year · Equinox · Solstice · Seven-day week · Week-day names · Calculating the day of the week · Dominical letter Archaeology & geology International Commission on Stratigraphy · Geologic Time · Archaeological dating Astronomical chronology Nuclear time scale · Precession · Sidereal time · Galactic year Units of time Second · Minute · Hour · Day · Week · Fortnight · Month · Year · Decade · Century · Millennium · Jiffy · Lustrum · Saeculum · Shake · Tide Related topics Chronology · Duration · System time · Metric time · Mental chronometry · Time value of money · Timekeeper

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