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The 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, with the cultural and psychological significance of the events listed above combining to cause celebrations to be observed one
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supported celebrating the arrival of the new millennium in the transition from 1999 to 2000 (i.e., December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000), in that the change of the hundreds digit in the year number, with the zeroes rolling over, is consistent with the vernacular demarcation of decades by their
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description, as in "the two thousands". The difference of opinion comes down to whether to celebrate, respectively, the end or the beginning of the "-000" year. The first convention is common in English-speaking countries, but the latter is favoured in, for example, Sweden
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at the start of the year 2000. One year later, at the start of the year 2001, the celebrations had largely returned to the usual ringing in of just another new year, although some welcomed "the real millennium", including America's official timekeeper, the
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in consideration and at later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after the start point. The term can also refer to an interval of time beginning on any date. Millennia sometimes have religious or theological implications (see
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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
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as to whether the beginning of that year should be understood as the beginning of the "new" millennium. Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous
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future, or a year when stories in such a future were set. There was also media and public interest in the
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effect". Also, the "year 2000" had been a popular phrase referring to an often
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to count years and millennia, as in "the third millennium", or using a
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A third position was expressed by Bill Paupe, honorary consul for
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was from the year 1000 BC to the end of the year 1 BC.
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The start of the 21st century and 3rd millennium was
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Index

Millenium
Millennium celebrations
Millennium (disambiguation)
years
decades
centuries
kiloannum
calendar
millenarianism
Latin

Opper
Keppler
celebrations of the year 2000
decades
centuries
ordinal numbers
vernacular
Anno Domini
year 1
year 0
the first millennium BC
Popular culture
1980s
odometer
utopian
Y2K computer bug
Kiribati
Stephen Jay Gould
celebrated worldwide

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