When is the beginning of the new millennium?

Question

When is the beginning of the new millennium? Some say it is January 1, 2000 and others January 1, 2001? Who is correct?

Answer 1

The millennium begun Jan 1 2000. Although technically some argue that since there is no year 0 there is year 1 BC and then year 1 AC then the millennium should start Jan 1 2001. But since we don't really care about technicalities. The millennium starts when there are many zeroes (three at least to be more precise)

Answer 2

As per the Gregorian calender which we all follow ...as well as the accepted practise of marking the a new beginning with the number 1.. we can surmise that January 1, 2001 is the correct beginning of the new millennium.

If you know cricket you will see that the 100th run is the completion of the first century and the 200th the completion of the second century and so on. The new century begins at 101, 201 or 301. The same system applies to the years.

Another argument is that the "first" day as per this calender was January 1, 0001. Thus the first thousand years end only December 31, 1000 and the next on Dec 31, 2000. There fore the new year/decade/century/millennium begins only on January 1, 1001/2001

If you follow literary references before the nineties, you will find that the dawn of the 21st century, and thus the new millennium, is referred to as January 2001. However in the late nineties under popular misconception and massive marketing gimmickry and also because of the Y2K bug, there was a lot of popular representation - especially in some advertisement of January 1, 2000 as the new millennium. The more responsible news papers etc however desisted from calling January 1, 2000 as the beginning of the new millennium.

Hope that clarifies matters.... best wishes. :-)

Answer 3

Millennium = 1000 years.

You must start with year 0 (like a baby 6 months old).

So 1/1/0 + 1000 years = 1/1/1000.

The millenium changes the moment the number in the one thousand spot changes, so the answer is January 1, 2000.

Answer 4

January 1st 2000

Answer 5

January 1, 2001. I don't believe they actually had a 0 AD or a 0 BC. it when from 1 to 1...(could be wrong?)

Answer 6

1 January,3000 A.D.

Answer 7

a Milenium means 1000 years... so 1/1/2000 would be exactly another 1000 years... thus it is 2000...

Answer 8

beginning of millenium means the first day of the millenium year

Answer 9

Well, there are many. There is the Gregorian, Julian, Hindu, Scientific.............. Take your pick.