Significant Events of the Millennium
1 January 1000 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium. |
1 January 1001 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium.
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1 January 1100 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century. |
1 January 1101 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century.
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1 January 1200 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century. |
1 January 1201 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century.
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1 January 1300 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century. |
1 January 1301 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century.
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10 June 1381 |
The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt,
the Peasants' Revolt.
(sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.)
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1 January 1400 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century. |
1 January 1401 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century.
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1 January 1500 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
1 January 1501 |
Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century.
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1 January 1600 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century. |
1 January 1601 |
People begin to get really fed up with pedants.
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1 January 1700 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century. |
1 January 1701 |
A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very
good celebrations.
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1 January 1800 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century.
A splinter group of ex-pedants turn up and get very drunk. |
1 January 1801 |
The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth
century.
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1 January 1900 |
Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century.
No pedants allowed. |
1 January 1901 |
Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival.
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24 November 1996 |
The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium
starts early and catches everybody by surprise.
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1 January 2000 |
Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted. |
1 January 2001 |
Massacre of the Pedants.
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