1st of Jan 2000 or 1st of Jan 2001?
2007-03-25 21:51:03 · 5 answers · asked by OngBak 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Year 2001.
2007-03-25 21:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by donniedragon 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The 21st century, 3rd millennium, and Age of Aquarius started 1 Jan 2001.
A millennium is 1000 years. Our present calandar was calculated using Roman Numerrals, which have no zero, so there was no year zero. The 1st millennium was the years 1-1000, the 2nd millennium was 1001-2000, the 3rd is 2001-3000.
2007-03-25 23:12:50 · answer #2 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody celebrated it on 1 Jan 2000, but pedants said that was wrong and it should have been 1 Jan 2001 as there was never a year 0AD. But then there was never a year 1AD, or, I guess even a year 100AD. So it's all a human construct and it was logical to say it began in 01.01.2000.
2007-03-25 21:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jan 1, 2001 was the start of the new millenium. The reason is because there was no "Year Zero."
2007-03-25 21:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
January 1,2001
2007-03-25 22:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋